Babble Machine
- Location
- First Floor
- Suggested duration
- 15 mins
- Opening Dates
- Thu 29 Nov 2012 - Sun 02 Dec 2012
- Cost
- Free
- More things about
- , Engineering, Everyday Things
Exploring the sound world of early radio in a multi-layered installation work, comprising archive recordings, newly-composed text and hefty doses of radio interference. 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.