Atoui, Tarek

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Label: Staalplaat Country: The Netherlands

"Tarek Atoui was born in Lebanon in 1980. He moved to France in 1998 and studied at the French National Conservatoire of Reims. He describes himself as an electro-acoustic musician, although he works primarily digitally, creating a uniquely abstract sound world with his experimental approach. Using his own patches of MAX/MSP, he makes soundscapes, often with beats, subject to breaks and asymmetries. This approach and method of work make him build a dedicated application for each musical composition where he gives a particular attention to improvisation and live performance.

In Paris he co-founded the Asa Djinnia Collective with Uriel Barthelemi involved with organizing and presenting creative and artistic events, and began working with the Puce Muse studios and IRCAM, along with several theatrical and dance companies. With Romuald Tual (alias RO3), Atoui worked on the Onirica Album on the label Signature (collection of Radio France).

He is currently the co-artistic director of the Steim studios in Amsterdam where he leads and develops several projects and plays with Michel Waisviz on an improvised electronic music duo. Along this, Tarek Atoui is also very active in Lebanon and the Middle East where he has several types of multidisciplinary interventions such as giving workshops destined to artists, university students and teenagers, giving concerts and curating multidisciplinary events around performative arts and technology."-Staalplaat

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