The Namib Desert in southern Africa may not be as desolately quiet as you’d expect, thanks to a new sound installation that aims to play Toto’s “Africa” on eternal repeat, NPR reports. Namibian-German artist Max Siedentopf’s installation is appropriately titled “Toto Forever.” Utilizing six speakers, an MP3 player featuring literally just that one song, and solar energy, the song will play “for all eternity,” according to the artist.
“I was very intrigued by this and wanted to pay the song the ultimate homage and physically exhibit ‘Africa’ in Africa,” Siedentopf wrote to NPR. “The Namibian desert—which is, with 55 million years, the oldest desert in the world—seemed to be the perfect spot for this.”
While you’ll have to ask Siedentopf where he placed the installation among the desert’s 31,300 square miles, you can see what it looks (and sounds) like at the below link.
