Un-drum is a complex interaction between music composition, body movement, performance, and computer and electronic engineering. It is a series of intense physical sound performances that Tarek Atoui started in 2009.
This work is an intense and physical electronic sound performance. It draws upon the 3 days of arrest and torture I experienced during the July 2006 war on Lebanon, during which I permanently lost partial hearing in my left ear after receiving a beating to the head. Un-drum1: Strategies of surviving noise draws parallels between attempts to break states of physical and psychological detention and siege and the collapsing of musical performance boundaries, laptop art and electronic music. Produced by the Shrajah Biennial 9, 2009.
