Discover Tarek Atoui’s exciting new work in Tate Modern’s iconic Turbine Hall
Tarek Atoui is a sound artist and composer whose installations change how we experience sound, not only through our ears but through our whole bodies. For the Hyundai Commission, Atoui transforms the Turbine Hall into a vast sonic landscape, bringing ancient families of instruments into dialogue with electronic technologies. Inspired by the unique acoustic and spatial properties of the Turbine Hall, the commission builds on decades of Atoui’s collaboration with instrument-makers, researchers, engineers and musicians.
Wind is channelled through a suspended network of bamboo pipes, playing shengs, mouth organs from China and Southeast Asia, in chorus.