Tarek Atoui
Drinks at 6pm, event at 7pm Artist and electroacoustic composer Tarek Atoui’s 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. Sharing videos of studio sessions he has been conducting in Berlin, Mexico City and Beirut, Atoui will discuss his process and demonstrate how he builds his instruments. Atoui is in residence at UC Berkeley as part of Tarek Atoui / MATRIX 258 at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA).