2010
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///// KONFRONTATIONEN NICKELSDORF 2010
15 - 18th JULY (4 days!)

CURATED BY Mats Gustafsson & Hans Falb

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FRIDAY JULY 16 / Kleylehof: Christine Sehnaoui & Andy Moor

Christine Sehnaoui - alto sax
Andy Moor - guitar

  

Born in 1978 and living in France, Christine is from lebanese origins. It is
with the discovering of improvised music in 1997 that Christine Sehnaoui
decided to start her own autodidact study of sound experimentation on the
alto saxophone.
She creates a personal language on how to make electronic music on an
acoustic instrument. Far away from narrative or dramatic music, her music
tries to deal with the relation between listening and the concept of
perception, time and space. With deep sensitivity, she develops extended
techniques and complex patterns, exploring the microtonal aspects of the
saxophone or the high-pitched tone. She produces nifty tonguing tricks,
unpitched breaths, spittle-flecked growls, biting, slicing notes or breathy
echoey sounds from the bell of her horn. 

Since 2001, she contibutes to develop impovisation in her country of
origins, Lebanon, where she co-organizes the annual festival of improvised
music in Lebanon, called "Irtijal" (http://www.irtijal.org).
She has study sociology and she works in an independent DVD label of
experimental cinema (LOWAVE), whose objective is to discover and promote
contemporary film and video art. Recently, she has released two DVDs called
"Résistance(s)", compilations of arab experimental videos (http://www.lowave.com).

(Foto-Credits: Elvira Faltermeier / unknown / Konstantin Sergeyev)

Christine Sehnaoui Andy Moor
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