As part of the project WITHIN, Tarek Atoui has developed nine new instruments and a sound massage kit which expanded notions of hearing, beyond orality and are activated on the occasion of concerts and exhibitions.

33 Soft Cells is a touch sampler made of 33 touch sensitive textile panels. Each panel has a distinctive texture or pattern. The instrument can be connected to di erent computer softwares and types of sound, and playing it relies on the sense of touch rather then auditive or visual stimuli. With the support of Bergen Center for Electronic Arts (BEK), composer Kari Telstad Sundet created a specific software for the instrument and collected sounds during recording sessions played by local people of different ages and hearing abilities. ¹