Constant's New Babylon

The Soundscape of New Babylon. Artist Justin Bennett explores the role of sound in Constant’s New Babylon project in his new podcast Constant’s New Babylon on UFMC.

In 2020 Justin Bennett visited Fondation Constant as we were in the proces of emptying Constant’s house and home studio. Justin’s practice is deeply rooted in sound and music and he was delighted to hear that we had several audio tapes from the sixties. Also he managed to figure out a machine we had found in Constant’s basement, which turned out to be a syntheziser avant-la-lettre, that Constant most likely used in his immersive projects of the sixties, see the link to that news item below.

Justin did not just digitalise the tapes for us but also analysed the content. With that he helped us tremendously to explore an area that we ourselves were not familar with. With the podcast episode Constant’s New Babylon he takes the audience on a journey through a unexplored aspect of