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title: "Artist portrait: Tarek Atoui and the elemental force of sound"
date: 2019-08-25
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/tarek-atoui-portraet-instruments-big-orchestra-big-orchestra-2019-context-en/"
description: "Together with deaf students, artist Tarek Atoui created new instruments – in search of a universal perception of sound."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/header__Q7A1926_BIGO.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# Artist portrait: Tarek Atoui and the elemental force of sound