Résumé
This article explores the way in which the inhabitants of Shimshal Valley in the Karakoram (Pakistan) make their home in the world by praising and singing while walking. I start my narrative by describing how people position themselves socially, both at home and on the road. Two episodes follow. The first one depicts a collective action in which the villagers open up a road obstructed by falling stones. The second episode is about the singing of a poem by a shepherd during a journey to the summer pastures. Through a phenomenological approach I seek to understand how the sonic dimension of collective actions frames a shared place and generates the matrix from which praise songs are composed. These songs are sung during the walk and gather people together in a shared place, in addition to generating a melodic line as a pathway on which listeners walk.