`Abrash` is a free solo improvisation, using pre-composed materials, ideas, motions or expressions. This material exists in continuous change and development. Through various small objects, unusual tunings (scordatura) and extended techniques, the voice of the oud gets augmented, both in articulation and expression. By precise amplification and the use of multiple microphones, subtle and soft sounds are enhanced, increasing their importance and textural planes blend with fragmented melodic patterns and deconstructed time pulses.
The performance is narrative and as it proliferates, it resembles a rhizome. Any point of that rhizome can be connected to any other. The experience is thus non-hierarchical; it is a harmonised multiplicity that engenders offshoots. The rhizome works through variation, expansion, conquest, lines of articulation, lines of flight and flows of differing speeds.
The performance is narrative and as it proliferates, it resembles a rhizome. Any point of that rhizome can be connected to any other. The experience is thus non-hierarchical; it is a harmonised multiplicity that engenders offshoots. The rhizome works through variation, expansion, conquest, lines of articulation, lines of flight and flows of differing speeds.
abrash
christian moser: prepared oud, objects
free improvisation
Review by Dominic Rivron, International Times, dec. 2024:
[…] The end result is a spacious music of often mobile-like structures in which, typically, each sound is allowed just enough space to be itself without compromising the sense of forward movement. […] However, it’s a magical listen and one which might appeal to a lot of people who wouldn’t normally consider improvised or experimental music to be ‘their thing’.
Review by Eyal Hareuveni, Percorsi Musicali, jan. 2025:
[…] Moser’s augmented oud produces surprisingly subtle resonant sounds that flirt with almost industrial ones or abstract drones, and sometimes even act like sound installations. These captivating improvisations find new, elusive sonic fabrics that welcome the unplanned and the imperfect.
christian moser: prepared oud, objects
free improvisation
Review by Dominic Rivron, International Times, dec. 2024:
[…] The end result is a spacious music of often mobile-like structures in which, typically, each sound is allowed just enough space to be itself without compromising the sense of forward movement. […] However, it’s a magical listen and one which might appeal to a lot of people who wouldn’t normally consider improvised or experimental music to be ‘their thing’.
Review by Eyal Hareuveni, Percorsi Musicali, jan. 2025:
[…] Moser’s augmented oud produces surprisingly subtle resonant sounds that flirt with almost industrial ones or abstract drones, and sometimes even act like sound installations. These captivating improvisations find new, elusive sonic fabrics that welcome the unplanned and the imperfect.