Tarek Atoui’s multivalent practice moves between art and music, education and performance. At its heart are instruments that the artist has created with instrument makers in recent years. On the occasion of his exhibitions at IAC (2023/2024), S.M.A.K. (2024), Kunsthaus Bregenz (2024/2025), and Pirelli HangarBicocca (2025), the artist is releasing a set of three records. The LPs bring together sounds produced by a number of international musicians playing solos on the artist’s instruments in different contexts: in their respective studios, Atoui’s studio, and in the exhibition spaces of KUB and kurimanzutto. These records not only capture the life of the instruments to make them audible to music lovers, but they are also conceived as vinyls of samples that DJs, turntablists and sound practitioners can sample and use.
Set of three LPs
Sounds played by Tarek Atoui, Jad Atoui, Nicolas Becker, Laure Boer, Gobi Drab, Diego Espinosa, Juan Garcia, Susanna Gartmayer, Mazen Kerbaj, Léo Maurel, Juan José Rivas, Dafne Vicente-Sandoval, Fernando Vigueras, Darío Bernal Villegas, Boris Shershenkov, and DJ Sniff
Design: Goda Budvytytė
Publication date: May 2025
Distribution: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne
