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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent

Hi-fi society: how sound system culture took over UK art and fashion

The Serpentine art gallery, with a large sound system against the back wall
The House of Music show at the Serpentine gallery uses large sound systems to pump music into the space. Photograph: Guy Bell/Shutterstock

When visitors make their way into Peter Doig’s House of Music show at the Serpentine, they’re confronted with not one but two sound systems.

The north gallery sports a vintage Western Electric and Bell Labs system that was used in cinemas in the 1920s and 30s, while Doig’s own set of Klangfilm Euronor speakers (which he acquired from Kraftwerk’s Florian Schneider) also pump music into the space. Doig’s Maracas painting features towering speaker stacks.

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