Christine Abdelnour

Christine Abdelnour is a self-taught alto saxophonist and improviser of Lebanese origin who lives in France. She came to improvised music in 1997. She treats sound as material to shape, using breath, silence, extended techniques and the high register of the horn, and draws from an acoustic instrument sounds close to electroacoustic music. Abdelnour plays in a duo with the German pianist Magda Mayas. The duo has performed at festivals across Europe and released Teeming and Myriad, the second on Unsounds.