Performance-concert

Tarek Atoui’s work (LB, 1980, based in Paris) stems from performance and explores how sound can be perceived by sensory organs other than the ear, how it acts as a catalyst for human interaction and how it is linked to social, historical and spatial parameters. The starting point for his work is usually in-depth anthropological, ethnological, musicological or technical research, leading to the creation of instruments, listening rooms, performances and workshops.

Since 2008, in the course of his travels and projects, Atoui has been building up an archive of instrumental sounds from anthropology museums and classical Arab music, which coexist with sounds captured in port cities and those of new, experimental instruments. For his performance in the Salle Duval of the Musée d’art et d’histoire, he will be using materials from this archive to compose an original sound fresco.