During August 2020, amid Australia’s COVID-19-driven external border closures and internal border restrictions, the Manus Recording Project Collective (hereafter: the Collective) produced the sound project, where are you today (wayt).1 The project was a collaboration between six asylum seekers detained in hotels or immigration detention centres across Australia and Papua New Guinea, and three writers/radio-makers in Melbourne.2 Each day, for 30-consecutive days, one of the detained members of the Collective created a 10-minute audio recording of their carceral surroundings, including hotel rooms in the Bell Mantra in Melbourne and Shady Rest in Port Moresby. Recordings were distributed daily to project subscribers via text message (Figure 1). The audio recording of detention was accompanied by a brief title description, the precise distance between the creator and each individual listener (based on device location data) and the amount of time that had passed since it was recorded.