Tarek Atoui: UN-DRUM / STRATEGIES OF SURVIVING NOISE (festival EXODOS)

An intense and physical electronic sound performance. It draws upon the 3 days of arrest and torture the author experienced during the July 2006 war in Lebanon, during which he permanently lost partial hearing in his left ear, after receiving a beating to the head. ‘Un-drum / strategies of surviving noise’ draws parallels between the attempts to break states of physical and psychological detention and siege, and the collapsing of musical performance boundaries, laptop art and electronic music.

Composed and performed by: Tarek Atoui
Computer programming and hardware engineering: Tarek Atoui
Produced by: Shrajah Biennial 9 – 2009