The oud is fretless lute popular across West Asia and North Africa. A parent to the European lute, its enjoys a popularity similar to the guitar in the West, used in a range of classical and folk music among Arabs, Turks, Iranians and other nations of the region.

This performance will feature a free improvisation duet on two ouds by Eugene Leung and Adam Neutron

Eugene Leung read music at Cambridge and has a Masters of Music in ethnomusicology from Goldsmiths’, University of London. He has since been active in performing and promoting traditional music from Central and West Asia in Hong Kong. He performs on the Uzbek two-stringed lute dutar and the Arabic oud, and has also been invited to curate a number of concerts, exhibitions and talks surrounding musics of the region and also on world music in general. He is a co-founder of the West/Central Asian music group The Nur Collective.

Adam Neutron is a multi-instrumentalist, mostly known for unorthodox methods of playing fretted and fretless guitars and various stringed instruments. He has been playing free improvisation and experimental music for around 2 decades, during which he was the founder and leader of free improvisation ensemble Brown Note Collective. Adapting knowledge from several fields of science, Adam experiments with deconstructing existing musical instruments and also building original creations. His current areas of interest and fields of research include designing, building and playing fretless guitars, minimalist guitars and non-12EDO guitars. More recently he has switched towards promoting free improvisation, currently is the co-curator of Brown Note Sessions

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