Interesting. In much a simpler way, that's what we tried to create at the
Boombox and the City exhibition. At a certain point, a number of boomboxes was turned on at relatively low volume in each of the three rooms, for the benefit of those attending the event:
https://boomboxery.com/forum/index.php/topic/28093-boombox-and-the-city/?hl=%2Bboombox+%2Band+%2Bthe+%2Bcity
The result was extremely satisfying, especially when we projected on the wall the silhouettes of breakdancers. But, generally speaking, we created a sort of disfamiliarizing effect, since people were invited to explore a much more complex and contradictory environment rather than simply look at what was on display. This took place in the third and final week of the exhibition, as Boombox and the City was an event "in movement".
I and my accomplice in the organization were unaware of the Babel installation, which of course is a much more interesting concept. Whereas the author of Babel wants to account for the myth of how human language was born as a means of confusion rather than communication (because with the erection of the tower mankind lost touch with the divinity), we just wanted to create an effect of backgound noise, partly urban soundtrack and partly homage to a local artist who in the Seventies wrote this very interesting radio piece (Battiato was studying with Stockhousen at that time):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSfQzAje1js
