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The Tower of Babel

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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Episode  ·  6:00  ·  Dec 5, 2024

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The sound of "Babel" by Cildo Meireles in the Tate Modern - the catalogue description reads:  "Babel 2001 is a large-scale sculptural installation that takes the form of a circular tower made from hundreds of second-hand analogue radios that the artist has stacked in layers.  The radios are tuned to a multitude of different stations and are adjusted to the minimum volume at which they are audible. Nevertheless, they compete with each other and create a cacophony of low, continuous sound, resulting in inaccessible information, voices or music." Recorded by Cities and Memory. 

6m   ·  Dec 5, 2024

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