Babble Machine
- Event Type:
- Demonstrations and experiments
- Duration:
- 15 mins
- Cost
- Free
- Subjects:
- Art ,
Comprising archive recordings, newly-composed text and hefty doses of radio interference, Babble Machine is a sound installation inspired by the anniversary of 2LO, the radio transmitter used for the first BBC broadcast in 1922. An array of vintage radio horns, receivers and suspended objects eerily emit sounds from the past and the present, including a live feed from the Science Museum's ‘2LO’ exhibition.
Babble Machine takes its name from the news radio-like transmitter predicted by H.G. Wells in his novel 'The Sleeper Awakes' (1899) and is devised by Aleks Kolkowski together with 2LO researcher Alison Hess and historian of science and poet Katy Price.
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