Madrid based multidisciplinary artist Tarek Wayne has devoted the larger part of his life to the study of music and sound. Drawing from his experience as guitar instructor, composer/producer, dancer, photographer, singer and programmer, he combines several disciplines into a singular expression. The primary focus was motion controlled computer instruments and transforming virtual objects, drawings or photographs with the resulting sound using Pure Data, Csound, Blender and now Unreal Engine and Unity3d.
Cyberpunk, its anime incarnations, artificial intelligence, and retrofuturism are clearly noted as obvious inspirations in his work.Current areas of research include: Sonification, the transformation of data to sound and Visualisation, the transformation of data(in this case, the resulting sound from sonification) into visuals. His projects are real-time and interactive with a view to usurp the artist from the spotlight and put the spectator/user in the driver seat. Even in the larger part of his recorded work, it is evidence of what would take place live.
While the initial aim was to develop live installations, the pandemic has shifted his focus to delivering his immersive concepts to the users home, using both Virtual And Augmented Reality, first testing with playable installation games(using Unreal).
In addition to music workshops for kids and teaching, he participated as vocalist and visual artist in Artbanchel 2019 and recently was selected to exhibit three installation proof of concepts on the virtual platform Engage 2021.
First Prize: Creator Collective LevelUP comp sponsored by Rarible DAO
Finalist and Interactive Prizes: Monaverse Renaissance Build Competition, sponsored by Filecoin
Commissioned to compose for: ANDE 2023 Spanish National Young Fashion Designer Comp (Hibristifilia Collection by Helena Labradas)
Times Square Feature: Glitched Systems 001 for the Xcollabz 2023 Cyberpunk Collection