Ṭaus al Chalabi
Ṭaus al Chalabi (aka Taus Jafar, Ṭaüs) is an award-winning songwriter, composer, sound designer, engineer, and music director whose work spans avant-garde and experimental film, immersive installation, game, TV, and recorded albums. With ambidextrous versatility, his art has been on rotation at radio stations such as KCRW and KROQ; in AAA and indie video games such as The Sims; toured in exhibitions at museums, galleries, and IMAX theaters, as well as in film festivals such as Sundance and SXSW. He focuses on creating sonic emotionality for complex, hyper-imaginative, and humanizing narratives, working closely with directors, artists, and creative teams to thoughtfully and precisely capture the unseeable dimensions of a story.
His study of audio-spatial relationships, social dynamics, architectural acoustics, and music improvisation while at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design imbues his work with a fluent hybridity between musical composition and socio-environmentally sensitive sound design. Ṭaus is an alumni and former mentor at the New Museum of Contemporary Art’s Art, Design and Technology Incubator (NEW INC) and an Ideas City Fellow.
