Pan-aud-icon?

A sound sculpture titled "panopticon"

I was very excited by the notion of an aural panopticon, then I realized that the title of the work has to do with the shape and not the concept.

But really, what would an aural panopticon be like?

This?

What if you are not on the phone? Hard to imagine for those born after 1990, I know, but a larger number of the world still live most hours of their days off the phone.

Watergate and X-files telling us that smoke detectors are all bugged and under your desk there's a tape recording rolling?