ongoing2024 — ongoing
At-Tāriq
The Nightcomer / The Morning Star
A Majlis of hospitality retracing trans-Saharan musical routes of the Arab world and North Africa.
Long-term research
An ongoing inquiry into sound, carried across time and place.
Tarek Atoui works in long-term threads rather than single exhibitions. Each begins in fieldwork and collaboration, takes form as instruments and listening spaces, and keeps changing as it travels. Follow them below across the years and the places they have sounded — the full chronology lives on the timeline.
- 2011→spanning
- 9threads
- 49presentations
- 36places
The threads
ongoingconcluded
201120142017202020232026
ongoing2023 — ongoing
The Rain
A fusion of Korean traditional percussion and electronic soundscapes, born of fieldwork in South Korea.
ongoing2021 — ongoing
The Whisperers
Listening devices of brass, water, bronze, glass and stone that let visitors plug in and hear anew.
ongoing2020 — ongoing
Waters' Witness
based on I/E (2015 — ongoing)
Recordings of harbours and docklands — Athens, Abu Dhabi, Singapore, Beirut, Porto — sounded through metal, stone and wood.
ongoing2019 — ongoing
The Wave
An evolving composition bringing experimental instruments and harbour recordings into a shared listening space.
concluded2018 — 2021
The Ground
Five years in the Pearl River Delta translated into autonomous instruments of farming, architecture and sound.
concluded2016 — 2021
The Reverse Collection
Instruments built backwards — from the recorded sound of the Dahlem Sessions to the objects that might have made it.
ongoing2013 — ongoing
WITHIN
Sound as an embodied experience, developed with Deaf and hearing participants across nearly 15 countries.
concluded2011 — 2012
On and From Tarab
Revisiting Tarab — the emotional ecstasy of classical Arab music — from the archive of Kamal Kassar.
