The Metastable Circuit is an instrument Atoui initially started and conceived last summer in Kassel (Germany) for the dOCUMENTA13.
It is an autonomous instrument that constantly generates narratives and collages from thousands of sounds that Atoui recuperated, collected and recorded since he started sound and music. Whenever it is played, this instrument changes sounds and function putting the artist in situations of listening, learning and improvising simultaneously.
With this instrument, throughout the dOCUMENTA13, Tarek Atoui held 16 different performances that took place in different indoor and outdoor venues of Kassel such as the Kino Cinema, the Batterie Concert Sapce, the Orangerie, the Fridericianum, the Import/Export Boat, the Huguenothouse …
Atoui also used recorded audio material from this instrument in the frame of la Lutherie radio series that he hosted on the Hessischer Rundfunk radio (c.f part 3 la Lutherie).k,n:
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