Below 160
Below 160 continues Tarek Atoui’s work in sound performance and music composition. His recent performances in the Un-drum series were intense physical performances that articulated music composition, body movement, and software and hardware engineering in personal and original ways as a result of Atoui’s work and experimentation in these fields over the last ten years. While the Un-drum series offered a combination of aural, visual, and physical experiences to the audience, this new work removes the most basic element of a sound performance–sound itself–in order to explore other forms of communication and relationships.
Each human organ has its resonating frequency to which it is responds and vibrates. And the way sound impacts the human body is the same regardless of age and size. In this performance, sound approached as vibrations that travel through air becomes the compositional element of a concrete and universal form of discourse that goes beyond language, music, and audible forms of communication. In fact, this composition addresses more the sense of touch than that of the aural. It is meant to be felt by the body rather than to be heard. This is achieved by using mainly bass and infra bass frequencies. Removing the sonic element of this performance is achieved by reducing the sound spectrum and sound palette to bass frequencies below 160 Hz and using this as compositional material to generate very precise air and space vibrations.
Currently under preparation for Salzburg’s Sommerszene festival
1ere scheduled on the 25th of June at 00:00.
Download Full Project Presentation
