ABSTRACT
to reach listeners and audiences, musicians work in bigger and smaller networks with local and international organizers, labels, distributors, art funders, journalists, and bloggers. the experimental music circles have worked with musicians from Europe and the US for many years. It is these network partners who often manage to invite the Lebanese musicians for concerts abroad—typically through working free hours, taking financial risks, convincing concert organizers, and organizing funding (see list of network partners in the notes 22 ). For example, the musician and former director of the Ystad Museum, Thomas Millroth, invited musicians from experimental music to Sweden:
In 2005 or so I received a record from Al Maslakh. I heard Mazen playing trumpet, I heard Sharif playing guitar and then I listened for the alto saxophone, heard none, or rather I heard a kind of playing hide and seek between all the instruments, steadily changing roles, hiding themselves. I never heard anything like that before. So I started looking for the address of Christine Sehnaoui (today Abdelnour) and found her in Paris. Called her, talked with her (…). I thought that I must raise some money to get those guys over here. (Millroth, e-mail to author, July 12, 2012)
