Created specifically for Tate Modern’s enormous Turbine Hall, the commission gives Atoui an architectural scale suited to his investigations of sound and collective listening. His installations often combine invented instruments, acoustic objects and environments that change according to how visitors interact with them. The emphasis is less on hearing a finished composition than on becoming aware of sound travelling through bodies, materials and space.

Tarek Atoui (b. 1980, Beirut) is a Lebanese-French artist and composer based in Paris. Trained in electronic music, he has developed an international practice combining sound art, performance, sculpture and experimental instrument design.