Laveronica presents Abu Hamdan’s “Tape Echo” (2013–14) series, a recent body of work made in Cairo in which second-hand cassette tapes of Islamic sermons are the primary medium and object of inquiry. The cassette tape recording Gardens of Death (2013, 29 min), for example, captures the acoustic bleed between the dozens of open-topped party boats that line both sides of the river Nile. Made by steering a small motor boat, microphone in hand, along the shore, the work documents the arrhythmic cacophony that resonates out across the river from these ungovernably loud, competing loudspeaker jurisdictions. Presented on a type of light-projecting speakers that are a common sight in Cairo’s streets and clubs, this work mimics the “loudspeaker libertarianism” adopted by locals wishing to drown out the deafening din while also contributing to it.