The crossing of Tarek Atoui’s sound: “The pending subject is knowing how to listen”

He is the man who makes the bronze, textile, stone, clay and branches of trees sound. Tarek Atoui (Beirut, 1980) discovers the sound of everything that crosses his path: homemade instruments, metal sheets and clay bowls, jars full of water or vinyl that turn tirelessly in a ceramic record player. “If you listen to a Beatles song on an underwater speaker, he will have a different sound than a transformer in your house. It won’t be better or worse…