Talk on July 27, 2018 – 11.30 am

As artist composer navigating between visual arts and music, Tarek Atoui will present his understanding of the act of composition today. He will take examples from his project WITHIN to show how he composes with research, education, performance and production as much as he does with people, instruments, sounds and situations.

Performance on July 28, 2018 – 7.30 pm

For his solo performance within the final festival day of Darmstadt 2018 the Lebanese artist Tarek Atoui will revisit the electronic instruments and software he developed on different of his projects – such as Un-drum and The Metastable Circuit. Those will control tens of polyphonic samplers that trigger sounds at fluctuating speeds, allowing Tarek Atoui to improvise with recordings and footage he collected on projects such as Dahlem and the Reverse Sessions, Re-visiting Tarab, I/E, and WITHIN. People who have experienced Tarek Atoui’s performances, will know that we may expect a strong and energetic solo show.

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