No_Requirement_1453 t1_iujane5 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 7:25 PM Reply to comment by Quelchie in TIL in 2018 a Namibian musician set up a permanent solar-powered sound installation at an undisclosed location in the Namib Desert in Africa with six speakers attached to an MP3 player that play's Toto's classic tune 'Africa' on a continuous loop. by big_macaroons I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said: “Six small and crackling speakers of plastic Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered ipod lies, whose scroll wheel, And cracked screen, and battery of little charge, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal these words appear: “Our name is Toto, band of bands: Listen on our works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that pocket-sized wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. Permalink Parent 124
No_Requirement_1453 t1_iujane5 wrote
Reply to comment by Quelchie in TIL in 2018 a Namibian musician set up a permanent solar-powered sound installation at an undisclosed location in the Namib Desert in Africa with six speakers attached to an MP3 player that play's Toto's classic tune 'Africa' on a continuous loop. by big_macaroons
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said: “Six small and crackling speakers of plastic
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered ipod lies, whose scroll wheel,
And cracked screen, and battery of little charge,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“Our name is Toto, band of bands:
Listen on our works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that pocket-sized wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.