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Project Website: http://slought.org/content/11355/
Please join us on Saturday, February 24, 2007 from 8-10pm at Slought Foundation for “The Tabadol Project,” the next installment of the Sound Field @ Slought series. This concert of experimental improvised music joins Beirut and Philadelphia, through a musical meeting featuring Raed Yassin (dbl. bass), Christine Sehnaoui (alto sax), Mazen Kerbaj (trumpet and objects), Sharif Sehnaoui (e-guitar) and Ziad El Ahmadie (oud), the Italian percussionist Fabrizio Spera, and cellist Marina Peterson. These musicians will perform in concert with members of Philadelphia’s burgeoning experimental music scene (including Alban Bailly, Jesse Kudler, Tim Albro, Ann West, Jack Wright, Carlos Santiago, Jon Barrios, Chandan Narayan, Dan Blacksberg and Dustin Hurt).
The Tabadol Project is a production of Soundfield, NFP, and has been organized by Gene Coleman. The Philadelphia concert series has been organized in cooperation with Dustin Hurt and Bowerbird. Major funding for the Tabadol Project is provided by The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State and The Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
TABADOL is an Arabic word meaning “exchange”. The Tabadol Project brings Lebanese musicians Raed Yassin, Christine Sehnaoui, Mazen Kerbaj, Sharif Sehnaoui, and Ziad El Ahmadie to the United States from Feb. 14th to 28th, 2007 for a series of performances in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, Washington DC., and Ohio University with over 50 US musicians. The project includes workshops, meetings, symposia and concerts that explore our globalized society through experimental music, dance and video. In addition to the concert at Slought Foundation, three other public concerts will take place in Philadelphia, each with a different thematic focus, at Landmarks Contemporary Projects, the Community Education Center, and the International House of Philadelphia. For more information on these and related events, please visit: http://www.soundfield.org/
Raed Yassin (bass, electronics, movement) was born in Beirut in 1979. He graduated from the Fine Arts University in 2003, studying in the theater and video department. He is a member of the MILL association for free improvised music in Lebanon, which organizes "IRTIJAL", a festival for experimental and free improvised music. He works as a musician (double bass, radio, tapes & electronics), sound composer, video artist and performer. He currently lives and works in Beirut. His works include: On CD: "A" (Kerbaj, Sehnaoui, Yassin Trio) and "The Adventures of Nabil Fawzi" (Coleman/Yassin) On Video: "Beirut", “Antenna Sonata" and "Featuring Hind Rostom" Dance/Theater: "Black Pepper" and "Variations on a Face".
Christine Sehnaoui (alto sax) was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1978 and currently resides in France. With her discovery of improvised music in 1997 Christine Sehnaoui began her own autodidact study of sound experimentation on the alto saxophone. She began playing with orchestras like the MOTORCHESTRA or IVRAIE resident at Instants Chavirés in Montreuil, and in different regular formations. Her main musical partners include Stéphane Rives, Quentin Dubost, Agnès Palier, Sebastien Bouhana, and Mazen Kerbaj. For the past few years, she has been working with the field of dance (Butoh and contemporary dance) and also she undertakes an ongoing research on musical pedagogy (concerts for children, intervention in schools). Since 2001, she has contributed to develop improvisation in her country of origins, Lebanon, where she co-organizes the annual festival of improvised music in Lebanon, called « Irtijal ». Apart from this, she has a BA on 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.
Mazen Kerbaj (trumpet, objects) was born in 1975 in Beirut and has lived there ever since. His main activities are comics, painting and music. In 2005, Kerbaj releases 2 new albums on the Lebanese newly born label Al Maslakh (The Slaughterhouse), one in solo and the other with Rouba3i quartet. Between 2000 and 2005, Mazen Kerbaj has played solo and in various group formations in venues throughout Lebanon, Damascus, Paris, Bordeaux, Vienna, Berlin, New York, Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia. Regular and occasional partners includes: Sharif Sehnaoui, Christine Sehnaoui, Raed Yassine, Charbel Haber, Jad Balaben, Jassem Hindi, Franz Hautzinger, Helge Hinteregger, Lê Quan Ninh, Bertrand Denzler, Stéphane Rives, Edward Perraud, Taku Unami, Guillermo Gregorio, Gene Coleman, Toshimaru Nakamura, Michael Zerang, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jim Baker, Jack Wright, Mike Bullok, and Vic Rawlings.
Sharif Sehnaoui (guitar) is a free improvising guitarist from Beirut, Lebanon. He plays both electric & acoustic guitars with extended and prepared techniques focusing on expanding the intrinsic possibilities of these instruments without the use of effects or electronics. He divides his time between Paris, where he started his career as an improviser in 1999, playing at Instants Chavirés where he was a member of several orchestras (Motorchestra, Ivraie…) and shared musical relationships with french musicians Stéphane Rives, Quentin Dubost, Thierry Madiot, Jean Bordé, Pascal Battus or Sophie Agnel among many others, and Beirut where has actively contributed to the emergence of a unprecedented experimental music scene. Along with Christine Sehnaoui & Mazen Kerbaj he created the “Irtijal” festival in 2001 that is at the moment the only improvised and new music festival in the arab world. He also runs the Al Maslakh label, created by Kerbaj, and devoted to "publish the unpublishable" on the Lebanese musical scene. He has so far collaborated with musicians and artists such as Michael Zerang, Wade Matthews, Axel Dörner, Jean Pallandre, Ingar Zach, Tom Chant, Le Quân Ninh, Nikos Veliotis, Gene Coleman, Masahiko Okura, or buto dancer Atsushi Takenoushi.
Ziad El Ahmadie (oud) is from Beirut, Lebanon. He is a composer and oud player for film, TV, and theater, and has performed his own compositions and traditional Arabic music in Lebanon and internationally through a variety of concert tours. Since 1992, he has led Group Beirut, and has given concerts and recitals at the American University of Beirut, Lebanese American University, Al-Madina Theatre, Beirut Theatre, Beirut Arab University, as well as in Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain, and Jordan. Since 1998, he has served as Department Chair of the four branches of the Music and Drama Department of Le Lycée National Bchamoun in Lebanon (in Beirut, Bchamoun, Bakaata, and Hanaway).
This program is made possible in part through the generous sponsorship or support of Sound Field NFP, The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, and The Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Contributing Sponsors include the United State Embassy, Lebanon, and the United States Embassy, Paris. The participation of Fabrizio Spera is made possible by Federazione CEMAT (Sonora), which is supported by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Cultural Affairs - Department for Performing Arts.
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L'Institut du Monde Arabe (Architect: Jean Nouvel)