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Commissioned by Beirut Art Center in the framework of Micro-commissions no. 4:
Recorded and Mastered by Anthony Sahyoun, Tunefork studios 

The patch built for this piece using Max/MSP detects transient sounds from gathered audio recordings of protestors banging on pots, rails and metal sheets during the 2019-2020 popular uprising.. Impacts and percussiveness were converted into computational data. These were used by the system that controls this sound piece, to trigger and manipulate low frequency sounds, emerging from transducers placed on Beirut Art Center’s bridge. Here, low frequencies as the ones with the longest wavelength, outlive any event as they travel the furthest, reaching zones where only sound and its vibrations are capable to infiltrate. Loudness was used to communicate rage and retaliation, hoping that it would reach the highly fortified governmental sites.

Trigger - for Beirut Art Center's 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼-𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗡𝗼. 𝟰

Lattices [MP3]

NP [Jad Atoui & Anthony Sahyoun] - Iridescence

Although the sounds of generators and other electrical machines have now become familiar to the weary ears of the residents of the city of Beirut, Lebanon, they are perhaps more prominent at night when everything else is quieter. In this sound piece, sound artist and improviser Jad Atoui positions himself as a narrator whose voices, sounds, and glitches express the vertiginous effects these once provisional technologies have on the people who listen to them.

Read more about this sound piece: https://norient.com/jad-atoui/beirut-belly-whale

This sound piece is part of the virtual exhibition «Norient City Sounds: Beirut» curated and edited by Rayya Badran.

Check out the full exhibition here: https://norient.com/beirut-adrift

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Beirut in the Belly of the Whale

The Last Bloom

Composed for Irtijal's "Istimrar" series, this piece focuses on the different aspects of resonance emitted from drum instruments where transient sounds were eliminated by using different techniques.
These techniques include the usage of rotating motors, transducers and contact mics placed on cymbals, hi hats, snares, kick drums & floor toms as well as processing sound through max/msp.

Intransient Drum Mutations - commissioned by Istimrar

2x Moog mother 32 improvised take

released April 20, 2019

"Unexplained Sounds Group is proud to release an anthology of the contemporary electroacoustic music from Lebanon. As always the compilation doesn’t pretend to be exhaustive of the whole Lebanese experimental scene, being the main goal, simply to turn on a spotlight on it. Another chapter of the "experimental surveys" series to map the best upcoming music from the international underground scene"

Diving Blue

"Distant collaboration" with Hassan Chehouri
Recorded and produced between Beirut and New York

Photo by Hamza Mekdad

Leaves Must Fall - feat Hassan Chehouri (Piano)

Piece composed for Bang & Olufsen's "Beosound Shape" exhibition at Beirut Design Week

Mastered by C-drík
www.syrphe.com

Trails from terra

released May 19, 2020

Cover by Elyse Tabet.
Mastered by C-drík at Syrphe.
Distributed by Syrphe.

VVVA03
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abslt0 (VVVA03)

All inspired by and recorded outdoors .

 Video about robots and painting made by Sci-Arc ( Southern California institute of Architecture ) featuring Black Sea : www.vimeo.com/64601429

Black sea

Attese

Lebanese experimentalist Jad Atoui who is using bio-sensors on plants to compose a stunning live set!

Jad Atoui (Live) | The Ballroom Blitz x Boiler Room

video by Ella (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdKAhadDXA8)

Dark matter

Little do people know about @Jad-Atoui's association with the black arts of breakcore and jungle in early 2010s with groups such as Acoustmatik & Kaotik System, an era ruled by the underground. In this tapestry of perpetual snares and decimating kicks, Atoui revisits the past in cunning fashion, a retrospective on Lebanon's arguably most exciting times.


Recorded at Unstated Defect - 04-07-20
artwork: born

Jad Atoui at Unstated Defect - 04-07-20

released May 19, 2020
VVVA03

Cover by Elyse Tabet.
Mastered by C-drík at Syrphe
Distributed by Syrphe

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Black Lanterns

Alpha60 (VVVA03)

Jad Atoui, a Beirut-based sound artist and improviser, explores a diverse landscape of creative expression spanning live performance, composition, installations, and workshops. His focus on electronic and electro-acoustic music merges with influences from experiences within New York's avant-garde scene, where he learned improvised music techniques and worked at The Stone and The Guggenheim Museum.

Performing and collaborating with musiucians like John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, Pauline Oliveros, and  Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Atoui's work extends across residencies at institutions such as The Stone and The National Sawdust, as well as the CTM festival, crafting sound compositions for ensembles like Yarn/Wire and Distractfold.

In 2015, Atoui embarked on the pioneering "Biosonics" project with scientist Ivan Marazzi, integrating bio-sonification into compositional techniques, a venture later featured in John Zorn's Arcana Book Vol. XVIII and premiered at The National Sawdust.

Atoui has been involved in various music projects, releasing music as a solo musician and collaborating with other artists like Anthony Sahyouni in "NP",  Chuck Bettis, Sharif Sehanoui, the Kinematic Ensemble, and a trio including Anthony Sahyoun and Sandy Chammoun, who are about to release their first trio album.

www.jadatoui.net

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