UN-DRUM 3.1

Tarek Atouis Un-drum productions are a series of complex interactions between musical composition, movement and data/electro engineer work. In July Atoui performed Un-drum 1/Strategies for Surviving Noise at The New Museum in New York. He followed it with several new productions as part of the series.

Un-drum 3.1 is a developed third part of the series, in which Atoui deals with a number of sampling techniques. For this purpose Atoui has made an audio library consisting of tens of thousands of micro samplings, and he examines the content through touch sensors. The performance concert Un-drum 3.1 becomes a collaboration production between the present performer on stage and 100 legendary Western and Oriental dead musicians and personalities.

Tarek Atoui is an electro acoustic musician initiating and curating multidisciplinary interventions, campaigns, concerts and workshops in Europe and the Middle East. He was born in Lebanon and moved to Paris where he from 1998 studied contemporary music and electronic music. Many of Atoui’s works refer to social and political realities, such as his pioneer workshop for youth, Empty Cans.

Source: Autumn program 2010, Avant Garden.