Tarek Atoui / MATRIX 258

March 2–November 7, 2015

Electroacoustic musician Tarek Atoui uses custom-built electronic instruments and computers to create music as a powerful tool of expression and identity.

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Tarek Atoui: WITHIN, 2013; performance at the Sharjah Biennial 11; courtesy of the artist.

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Saturday, November 7, 4 & 6 PM
WITHIN TWO

Hearst Memorial Mining Building, UC Berkeley

With ASL interpretation
Thursday, November 5, 6 PM
WITHIN 2

Concert premiering instruments for hearing and nonhearing audiences alike created by artist/musician Tarek Atoui in collaboration with UC Berkeley faculty and students and Meyer Sound. With local musicians William Winant, James Fei, and others.

Mills College Student Union

With ASL intepretation
Friday, March 20, 7 PM
Tarek Atoui in Concert

Atoui presents a concert of his own compositions.

Meyer Sound
Monday, March 9, 7:30 PM
Tarek Atoui: DeafSpace and Making Musical Instruments

Paris-based artist Tarek Atoui talks about creating instrumentation for the hearing impaired and the DeafSpace Project developed by Gallaudet University in Washington, DC.

David Brower Center

Tarek Atoui / MATRIX 258

March 2–November 7, 2015

MATRIX 258 features the work of artist and electroacoustic composer Tarek Atoui (b. 1980). Born in Lebanon and based in Paris, Atoui initiates and curates multidisciplinary interventions, concerts, performances, and workshops. His work often radiates around large-scale, collaborative performances that develop from extensive research into the history of music and instrumentation, while also exploring new methods for production. Using custom-built electronic instruments and computers, Atoui references social and political realities in his work and presents music and new technologies as powerful tools of expression and identity.At the core of his work is an ongoing reflection on the instrument and the act of performance as a complex, open, and dynamic process.

Education and social connection are integral aspects of Atoui’s practice. For example, for the 2013 Sharjah Biennial 11 Atoui produced WITHIN, a sound...

Education and social connection are integral aspects of Atoui’s practice. For example, for the 2013 Sharjah Biennial 11 Atoui produced WITHIN, a sound program based on research into the ways in which deaf people experience and perceive sound. For his MATRIX project, Atoui will build on WITHIN, designing and fabricating instruments for deaf audiences. At the core of his work is an ongoing reflection on the instrument and the act of performance as a complex, open, and dynamic process.

For the first part of his MATRIX project, in March, Atoui will be in residence at UC Berkeley, coteaching an undergraduate seminar with Greg Niemeyer, who teaches in the Department of Art Practice and is director of the Berkeley Center for New Media. As part of the course, Atoui will collaborate with the students to build instruments using 3D printing and other technologies that will be played in a series of Bay Area concerts in the fall. During his March residency, Atoui will lecture on his interest in creating instrumentation for the hearing impaired and the DeafSpace Project developed by Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, as part of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium at the David Brower Center on March 9. Atoui will also present a concert of his own music at Meyer Sound on March 20.

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Tarek Atoui / MATRIX 258 is organized by Apsara DiQuinzio, curator of modern and contemporary art and Phyllis C. Wattis MATRIX Curator. It is copresented with the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC). Major support is provided by Meyer Sound. The MATRIX Program is made possible by a generous endowment gift from Phyllis C. Wattis and the support of the BAMPFA Trustees. Additional support is provided the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM).

Tarek Atoui / MATRIX 258

March 2–November 7, 2015

Past Events

WITHIN TWO

WITHIN 2

Tarek Atoui in Concert

Tarek Atoui: DeafSpace and Making Musical Instruments