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Tarek Atoui invites Irish musician Natalia Beylis to lead a performance with Willie Stewart, Aine O’Dwyer and Meabh McKenna within his installation, Souffle Continu, at IMMA’s Baroque Chapel. This event takes place as part of the artists’ the first solo exhibition in Ireland. 

In tandem with this performance, visitors are invited to explore Sunflowers in Gallery 3 (Courtyard), a complex sound environment merging Korean drumming tradition and electronic soundscapes. 

Tarek Atoui’s artworks explore the physicality of sound and the act of listening, creating immersive experiences that challenge traditional boundaries between artist, audience, and instrument. 

Admission is free. Advanced booking is recommended. 


About the artists

Natalia Beylis has released over 40 albums between solo works and collaborations and has appeared on numerous compilations. A sonic storyteller and multi-instrumentalist based in rural Ireland, her work mirrors her surroundings: creaking trees, farm animals, vocal samples taken from conversations with her neighbours, the north-westerly breeze, creatures rusting in the hedgerows, strange noises from the bog at dusk and rainfall. She regularly records on a variety of traditional instruments as well as non-musical sound sources: her solo compositions and improvisations are a mix of garbled tape collage recordings, manipulated sounds of seemingly mundane objects, eerie mandola mantras and dreamscape piano voyages.  

Áine O’Dwyer is a multi-disciplinary artist, a musician, composer and performer whose work is informed by both the conceptual concerns of sound-art and traditional compositional techniques, embracing the broader aesthetics of sound and its relationship to environment, time, audience and architecture. She has created works internationally for large-scale and intimate settings which often allow for both planned and chance events to co-exist. Recent presentations include Old Songs (2025), a performance installation commissioned by Oscillation festival, Brussels and Sing in the Dark (2024), a voice and Acousmonium performance at Archipel festival, Switzerland.  

Willie Stewart is a percussionist, filmmaker and record label owner based in Co Leitrim, Ireland.  He has played in numerous bands since the early 90’s. Through never ending exposure to music, creative people and the great planet earth, he has adopted a free improvisational and circular rhythmic style of drumming.  Willie continually works to create more with less by utilising a very minimal kit setup of standard drums alongside unconventional found objects in a bid to push sonic limits and explore percussive rhythms from the landscapes of his imagination. He has been known to sit and talk to a photograph of Milford Graves with his morning coffee. 

Méabh McKenna is a multi-instrumental noise maker from the East of Ireland, utilising the pedal and early Irish harp, voice, and electronics,  Drawing on years of experimentation and collaboration, their live performances have evolved from traversing the eclectic worlds of traditional, classical, and early music, intuitively weaving them with contemporary and electronic elements.