In their new collaboration Majestic Noise,  developed during the pandemic isolation of  2020 and 2021, Sote and Tarik Barri create mesmerising audiovisual worlds where the theme  of isolation plays an important part.

Isolation as aggression, as sadness, as  resignation and as insanity, but never without  beauty which remains the engine that moves us  forward. Sote and Tarik Barri portray these  feelings from their own perspectives as well  as how they've witnessed this manifestation in  fellow humans, victims, oppressors, loved ones  and lost ones alike.

Sote (IR)

Ata ‘Sote’ Ebtekar composes music with a  deeply-held conviction that rules and formulas  should be deconstructed and rethought. He  alters musical modal codes from their original  tonality and rhythmic tradition to achieve  vivid, synthetic soundscapes. Over the last  three decades, his work has been published by  labels such as Warp, Sub Rosa, Opal Tapes,  Diagonal, Mute and Morphine, among others.

Tarik Barri (NL/DE)

Over the past 10 years, Tarik Barri has  developed an unique aesthetic signature in audiovisual performances and the development of his own software tools. In addition to his  own work (in sound and image), he has become  internationally known through long-term visual  collaborations with leading artists such as  Monolake, Thom Yorke, Nicolas Jaar – and more  recently together with Sote.