Tarek Atoui

Infinite Times Zero

Infinite Times Zero is a composition that addresses sound as a tangible and intangible manifestation, with its own temporality, space, and reality, which transcend human perception and location.
In it, Atoui creates sound that moves uninterrupted from one city to another taking different shapes and manifestations over very long time durations.
 
Made entirely of digital and abstract sound transcending socio-cultural references, and provided with special software, this work is composed of hundreds of digital signals and tone generators offering infinite possibilities of composition and improvisation, and synthesizing complex soundscapes free of any loop effects or repetitiveness. The mutating sound will continue to transform through the intervention of a performer, presence as a multi-channel installation, or transmitted through a simple speaker.
 
Infinite times zero is a radical translation of physical performances and sound installations that prolong each other through the technologies of the internet, annihilating distance and transcending concrete space, borders and geography.
A phase 0 of try-out and experimentation started in April 2011 and is currently taking place until August 2011 as part of the Meeting Points 6 exhibition.
The project will start in September 2011 and will travel to Brussels, Berlin, Athens and Paris in the frames of Meeting Points 6 and La Triennale of Paris.

Curated by Okwui Enwezor
Commissioned by Meeting Points 6
Supported by the Sharjah Art Foundation

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Examples of phase 0: