(Credit: Benoit Maubrey)
How do you create a 21st century version of an ancient Greek temple? How about building it from a giant pile of old electronics and making it talk?
For his electro-acoustic sculpture "Temple," artist Benoit Maubrey compiled 3,000 recycled loudspeakers, 10 recycled amplifiers, 10 recycled radios/tuners, and a mixing board and soldered the gear into a replica of part of the Greek temple at Delphi. The temple stands outside the ZKM center for art and media in Karlsruhe, Germany, where it will remain through March of next year as part of an exhibit on sound as art.
The sound, in this case, is white noise punctuated by the voices of people who call in to a German telephone number (0721 8100 1818) that automatically broadcasts their musings through the sculpture's loudspeakers as if through an answering machine. Anyone can call in, and they can talk for up to three minutes.
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