Cities and Memory - remixing the world

The Tower of Babel


Listen Later

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. 
...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Cities and Memory - remixing the worldBy Cities and Memory

  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8

4.8

12 ratings