| Biography | Sharif Sehnaoui (*1976) is a free improvising guitarist based in Beirut. He plays both electric and 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 spent over a decade in Paris, starting his career as an improviser in 1998 at Instants Chavirés, where he played and was a member of several orchestras. Sehnaoui has performed his music worldwide and played in many festivals such as Soundfield (Chicago), Moers, Mulhouse Music Festival, Club Transmediale & Maerzmusik (Berlin), Skanu Mesz (Riga) or Musikprotokoll (Graz). Along with Mazen Kerbaj he created the «Irtijal» festival in 2001, contributing to the emergence of an unprecedented experimental music scene in Lebanon. He also runs two labels: «Al Maslakh», devoted to «publish the un-publishable» on the Lebanese musical scene, and «Annihaya», a label with a focus on sampling, recycling and revisiting various aspects of popular culture. |
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