WITHIN2

For WITHIN 2, Tarek Atoui presented his approach to performing sound in relation to anticipation, tactility, visual noise, gestures, and the multimodal nature of hearing. The workshop was a platform for performance, research, improvisation, and spatial composition that explored not only auditory perception among our diversity of listening abilities, but the social relations of public space, techniques of visual communication, and architectural tactility.

Atoui presented the project's first incarnation, WITHIN, as a series of performances and workshops during the Sharjah Biennial in 2011 and has continued to research principals of sonic architecture (in particular, the system of DeafSpace, developed by Hansel Bauman at Gallaudet, Washington) in the development of instrument-building techniques. During his time at EMPAC, Atoui worked with Distinguished Research Professor of Music Pauline Oliveros to engage students in designing and building new instruments and interfaces for performance.