CHRISTINE SEHNAOUI & MAGDA MAYAS

The musical expression conceived by the duet of the Berlin pianist Magda Mayas and the Lebanese saxophone player Christina Sehnoui
inhabits the inherent blank spot of contemporary music (which still
remains to be defined through differential categories of institutional
versus non-institutional levels), since their respective background –
Mayas having obtained a certain level of institutional education and
Sehnaoui being a autodidact – evades the aforementioned distinction.
The improvisatory gap thus inhabited by the duet gives rise to a
contemporary milieu of today’s creative work in the arena of creative
music(s), which uses subtle eavesdropping and attentive gestures in
order to subject personal experience to the sound, thus guiding the
sound articulation into an exploratory harmony of expanded playing
techniques. The latter subsequently meld together with different
aesthetics and blurred traditions, openly flirting with the inheritance
of prepared piano in the contemporary classical music of the former
century, on the one hand, and electronic music, on the other. The duet
fluidly brings together intensity and inventiveness, sharpness and
softness, in its consistent walk on the edge of deconstructed musical
language, grounding itself in the arena of noise, smacks, cracks,
extended tones in the high registers of a lithe saxophone performance,
percussive play, and extended sounds within harmonic intertwinements,
which act as interventions into the very entrails of the piano. Luka Zagoričnik

Before and after the concert, Abstract Truth (Slovenia) will warm up the floor with a DJ set.

Organization: City of Women; In collaboration with: Menza pri koritu