Robin Rimbaud (Scanner): 52 Spaces

Dialogue from Antonioni's L'eclisse (1962), the film's background noise and scraps of its score are pulled apart and stitched back together with sounds Robin Rimbaud recorded on the streets of Rome. In the museum's words, the real city and the filmed one end up as a single acoustic fabric.

You walk into MACRO's Audio Room and there is nothing to look at. Rimbaud, the British composer who works as Scanner, made the piece in 2002 for Antonioni's 90th birthday. The film's last minutes show Rome's building sites and crossroads emptied of Monica Vitti and Alain Delon. It's the one room in Rome where the street noise is the point.

The museum pitches it as a place to stop and listen rather than a show to walk through. Pair it with Gaia De Megni's Maria's Dream in the Video Room, which also circles Vitti. Both are covered by the €6 MACRO ticket (€4 for ages 7 to 26). Closed Mondays; runs until 8 November.