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Sound Island. Arc de Triomphe,
Paris, 1994.
In this installation, created for the city of Paris and Ministry
of Culture, the natural white noise of the sea off a rugged cliff
on France's Normandy coast was transmitted live, via underwater
hydrophones and microphones, to hidden loudspeakers on the facade
of the Arc de Triomphe. The sound of waves crashing against rocks
masked the loud traffic noise of the immense roadway around the
monument and provided a new and unexpected sense of place, time,
memory and dimensionmade especially poignant as the installation
occurred during the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of
the D-Day landing at Normandy and the liberation of Paris.
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