To engage the ears of the Festival, an interactive annual sonic competition invites participants to capture and process the Beiruti soundscape, which will serve as the announcement soundtrack of the Festival.

Participants are invited to capture the background sound of the city at various times (morning ambience, silence of the night, street noise, passing cars, honking, generators, church bells, calls to prayer, other urban elements, etc.). Then, they are invited to process this recording to produce a soundtrack that could be sound effects, music or rhythm. This soundtrack will be used to announce the Festival.

At this stage, the soundtrack does not include human sound and speech. These human elements will be captured at the various Festival events. The absence of the human voice reminds the listeners that the human sound dimension is none other than their own voice. This sonic experimentation serves as call and invitation to the audience to come together. In other terms, the Festival's sonic identity is not complete without the audience participation.

This soundtrack will be also played ahead of the various Festival events, as the audience gathers before the shows. The sound of the participants and their words will be recorded, and, once superimposed on the soundtrack, will constitute the sonic imprint of each event. Taken together, these soundprints will provide the sonic identity of the annual Festival edition.

The finalists' soundtracks will be featured on the Festival’s website, and exhibited as part of the programming. The winning soundtrack will be rewarded with a sum of money, and will be used throughout the year for the Festival’s communication, also reproduced on merchandising elements - with reproduction rights paid for.