WITHIN is a collaborative project investigating how deafness can influence the way we understand sound performance, its space and instrumentation. For the Bergen Assembly, WITHIN culminates in a new chapter for which Tarek Atoui has developed nine new instruments that expand notions of listening beyond the aural. The design of these instruments and their playability are the result of workshops and collaborations between the artist, instrument makers, deaf and non-deaf students and volunteers. These instruments were made progressively, as the result of exhibitions and residencies that Tarek Atoui initiated in several institutions in the Unites States, France and Germany, where he met acoustic instrument makers, speaker designers, software engineers and musicians — all contributors to the making of this ensemble. In September 2016, the instruments will be brought together for the first time in Sentralbadet where composers and performers will be invited to experiment with them in different ways, playing them separately or as an ensemble. Each week, a guest composer will be commissioned to conduct public rehearsals and to present a final concert. plus