Tarek Atoui was born in Lebanon in 1980. He moved to France in 1998 studied cultural management along with contemporary and electronic music at the French National Conservatoire of Reims.
He is an electro-acoustic musician although he works primarily digitally, creating a uniquely abstract sound world with his experimental approach. Using his own programs done through MAX/MSP, he builds dedicated applications for each musical composition and gives a great attention to having an expressive, dynamic and intense performativity when it comes to playing in live. In Paris he co-founded the Asa Djinnia Collective in 2004 with Uriel Barthelemi involved in organizing and curating creative and artistic events, and began working with the Puce Muse studios and IRCAM, along with several theatre and dance companies...
He returned to Lebanon and to the Middle East in 2004 where he initiated and curated several types of multidisciplinary interventions and events such as concerts, workshops destined to artists, university students and teenagers over new technologies applied to art.
He is currently the co-artistic director of the Steim studios in Amsterdam and he's released his first solo album on the Berlin’s Staalplaat esteemed Mort Aux Vaches series.
He's also working with the European Cultural Foundation as an artist and on curating the Almost Real event in Beirut and with the Sharjah Biennial on curating and coordinating the Arab Platform for Art and Technology and a new solo performance for March 2009.
The artistic and curatorial work of Tarek Atoui have social and political forms of engagement as he works with displaced communities of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon (among others) and does several forms of workshops and activities that consider electronic music and new technologies powerful tools of self expression and identity.
His main project in this domain was the Empty Cans workshop that took place in summer 2007 in France, Holland, Lebanon and Egypt.
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