You might not have thought about Snapchat this way. You might not have thought much about it at all.

But if you are one of the social media app’s 191 million daily users, those brief videos of your sneakers pounding the pavement, your friends clinking glasses or your adorable baby bashing cymbals might have been creating sonic art.

While Snapchat is primarily used as a visual application, an unusual collaboration between its engineers and an artist, Christian Marclay, has produced an exhibition based on the sounds in posts created by the app’s users. “Sound Stories” is to run June 18 to June 22 at La Malmaison in Cannes, France, as part of this year’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

Snapchat’s defining feature is that pictures and videos shared among friends quickly disappear and are not stored on anyone’s phones, giving the experience a sense of privacy. The videos used in the exhibition are ones that people have uploaded to Snapchat’s “public stories,” which are available for any user to see.

Mr. Marclay, who has spent decades exploring ways to manipulate sounds, told the team at Snap, the app’s parent company, that he wasn’t so interested in how posts looked, but rather what they sounded like.