The Wave
The Wave is a composition deriving from experimentation that Tarek Atoui has been doing with the instruments and sounds constituting the piece. The instruments were developed for WITHIN, The Reverse Collection and The Ground, Atoui’s previous projects. The sounds are field recordings from I/E, Atoui’s project on harbour cities (Abu Dhabi, Athens and Singapore). Since their creation, these sound libraries and instruments have been activated by a variety of collaborators and musicians. Some were deaf, interacting with sound and performance for the first time; others were professional musicians familiar with improvisation and extended techniques. The Wave is inspired by these individual and collective encounters.
Instruments are animated by objects and sound, and sounds are broadcast through metal and stone. The listening space that is created is a delicate ever-changing microcosm that repeatedly gets washed away by the Horns of Putin and then builds up again.
- Places
- Ljubljana · Austin · Okayama
- Material
- field recordings · experimental instruments · metal · stone
Where & when
3 presentations
- 2024Standing Wavessolo · Cukrarna Gallery — Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 2022The Whispererssolo · The Contemporary Austin – Jones Center on Congress Avenue — Austin, USA
- 2019IF THE SNAKEgroup · Okayama Art Summit — Okayama, Japan
Gallery
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Press
- Galerie Chantal Crousel · ReferenceThe Wave — composition and project archive
- Letters to Barbara · ArticleStanding Waves at Cukrarna Gallery
- Cukrarna Gallery · ReferenceStanding Waves — Cukrarna Gallery, 2024
- e-flux · ArticleThe Whisperers and The Wave — exhibition review — The Contemporary Austin – Jones Center on Congress Avenue, 2022
- The Contemporary Austin – Jones Center on Congress Avenue · ReferenceThe Whisperers — The Contemporary Austin – Jones Center on Congress Avenue, 2022