Live Music

Adam Golebiewski and Sharif Sehnaoui at Ono Hub

Friday, Jan 8, 2016
8:30pm -> 10:00pm
Onomatopoeia

With:
– Adam Golebiewski
– Sharif Sehnaoui

Cost
5,000 LL

For more information
01.398.986

About Adam
Born in Poland in 1984, Adam Golebiewski is an improvising percussionist, as well as a musicologist and sociologist. He is Involved mainly in improvised and experimental music, and free jazz. In his work he focuses on the ultimate extension of the potential of the drum set and percussion instruments as to their anatomy, sound and expressiveness, which results in a direct and intense sound language.

He has been invited to collaborate with such icons of experimental music and art as Yoko Ono and Thurston Moore. He has performed and recorded with leading representatives of improvised music, including Fred Lonberg-Holm, Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark, John Edwards, Alex Ward, Tim Daisy and many others. He lives and works in Poznań, Poland.

About Sharif
Sharif Sehnaoui is a free improvising guitarist. He plays both electric & acoustic guitars, with (or without) extended and prepared techniques, focusing on expanding the intrinsic possibilities of these instruments without the use of effects or electronics. He now resides in Beirut, his hometown, after more than a decade in Paris, where he started his career as an improviser in 1998, playing at Instants Chavirés where he was a member of several orchestras. He has since performed his music worldwide and played in many clubs & festivals such as Soundfield (Chicago), Moers, Konfrontationen (Nickelsdorf), Météo Music Festival (Mulhouse), CTM & Maerzmusik (Berlin), FEST (Tunis), Skanu Mesz (Riga), 100Live (Cairo) or Musikprotokoll (Graz).

In Lebanon, he actively contributed to the emergence of an unprecedented experimental music scene. Along with Mazen Kerbaj he created “Irtijal” (www.irtijal.org) in 2000, a yearly international festival that is the oldest improvised and new music festival in the Arab world. “Irtijal” celebrated its XVth anniversary in 2015.