Will Guthrie is an Australian drummer / percussionist living in France. He plays solo using different combinations of drums, percussion, amplification and electronics, and leads the contemporary hybrid percussion / gamelan group ENSEMBLE NIST-NAH. His music has been released on labels such as Black Truffle, Editions Mego, Erstwhile, Clean Feed, Gaffer Records, Hasana Editions, 23five, iDEAL and his own label Antboy Music.
Guthrie first made a name for himself within the Australian jazz scene, establishing himself at a young age as a major presence by winning the Wangaratta National Jazz Awards for drums in 1997 and going on to perform with many of Australia’s most celebrated jazz musicians such as Mark Simmonds, Julien Wilson and Ren Walters. In the new millennium, his work took a long detour away from the drum kit through junk electronics, extreme amplification and electro-acoustic techniques, documented on a series of solo and collaborative recordings from these years.
Alongside continuing his electro-acoustic work, in the last decade, Guthrie has returned to the drums with a vengeance, developing a series of solo works marked by a radical single-mindedness, from relentless rhythmic workouts to earth-quaking explorations of the bass frequencies of gongs and other metal percussion instruments. In the crowded world of free jazz/improv percussion, Guthrie’s work is distinguished from the delicately pointillist approach of much European improvisation by its rhythmic sophistication, unashamed virtuosity and undeniable physicality, touching on aspects of world musics from Javanese gamelan to South Indian Carnatic music.
As a dedicated grassroots and DIY concert organiser, while still a student in Melbourne Guthrie (alongside Ren Walters) established the weekly concert series ‘Improvised Tuesdays’, now known as the Make It Up Club, Australia’s longest running performance series for improvised and experimental music. On moving to Nantes, Guthrie joined the collective CABLE#, curating and organising regular concerts and an annual festival.
Guthrie has released over 50 Albums, as both soloist and in collaboration, on labels such as his own Antboy Music, and also Black Truffle, Editions Mego, Gaffer Records, Ideal, Ipacac and Clean Feed. He has performed at countless venues and festivals all over the world including Lieu Unique (Nantes), Cafe Oto (London), Berghain (Berlin), Super Deluxe (Tokyo), SPRING Performing Arts Festival (Utrecht), Meta House (Phnom Penh), MONA FONA (Hobart), Suoni Per Il Popolo (Montreal), Lampo (Chicago), Oct Loft Jazz Happening (Shenzhen) and the Geometry Of Now (Moscow).
Regular collaborators past and present include Oren Ambarchi, Container, Sarah Hennies, Mark Fell, Roscoe Mitchell, Ahmed Ag Kaedy, James Rushford, Ghassen Chiba, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Erell Latimier, Chulki Hong, Mark Simmonds, Jérôme Noetinger, Keith Rowe, David Maranha, Ava Mendoza, the film maker Hangjun Lee and choreographer/dancer Mette Ingvartsen.
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Will Guthrie est un batteur/percussionniste australien vivant en France. Il joue en solo en utilisant différentes combinaisons de batterie, percussions, amplification et électronique, et dirige le groupe hybride contemporain de percussions/gamelan ENSEMBLE NIST-NAH. Sa musique a été publiée sur des labels tels que Black Truffle, Editions Mego, Erstwhile, Clean Feed, Gaffer Records, Hasana Editions, 23five, iDEAL et son propre label Antboy Music.
Guthrie s'est d'abord fait un nom sur la scène jazz australienne, s'imposant très jeune comme une présence majeure quand il a gagné les Wangaratta National Jazz Awards pour la batterie en 1997 et en continuant à jouer avec de nombreux musiciens de jazz australiens parmi les plus célèbres tels que Mark Simmonds, Julien Wilson et Ren Walters. Au cours du nouveau millénaire, son travail a pris un long détour loin de la batterie à travers l'électronique de pacotille, l'amplification extrême et les techniques électroacoustiques, documentées sur une série d'enregistrements solo et collaboratifs de ces années. Parallèlement à la poursuite de son travail électroacoustique, Guthrie est revenu à la batterie avec enthousiasme au cours de la dernière décennie, développant une série d’œuvres solo marquées par une détermination radicale, allant d’exercices rythmiques incessants à des explorations terrifiantes des basses fréquences des gongs et autres instruments de percussion métalliques. Dans le monde encombré du free jazz/improvisation, le travail de Guthrie se distingue de l’approche délicatement pointilliste de la plupart des improvisations européennes par sa sophistication rythmique, sa virtuosité sans vergogne et son indéniable physicalité, abordant des aspects des musiques du monde, du gamelan javanais à la musique carnatique du sud de l’Inde.
En tant qu’organisateur de concerts DIY, alors qu’il était encore étudiant à Melbourne, Guthrie (aux côtés de Ren Walters) a créé la série de concerts hebdomadaires « Improvised Tuesdays », désormais connue sous le nom de Make It Up Club, la plus longue série de performances de musique improvisée et expérimentale d’Australie. En s'installant à Nantes, Guthrie rejoint le collectif CABLE#, organisant régulièrement des concerts et un festival annuel.
Guthrie a sorti plus de 50 albums, en solo ou en collaboration, sur des labels tels que son propre label Antboy Music, mais aussi Black Truffle, Editions Mego, Gaffer Records, Ideal, Ipacac et Clean Feed. Il s'est produit dans d'innombrables salles et festivals à travers le monde, notamment au Lieu Unique (Nantes), au Cafe Oto (Londres), au Berghain (Berlin), au Super Deluxe (Tokyo), au SPRING Performing Arts Festival (Utrecht), au Meta House (Phnom Penh), au MONA FONA (Hobart), au Suoni Per Il Popolo (Montréal), au Lampo (Chicago), au Oct Loft Jazz Happening (Shenzhen) et au Geometry Of Now (Moscou). Parmi les collaborateurs réguliers, passés et présents, on compte Oren Ambarchi, Container, Sarah Hennies, Mark Fell, Roscoe Mitchell, Ahmed Ag Kaedy, James Rushford, Ghassen Chiba, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Erell Latimier, Chulki Hong, Mark Simmonds, Jérôme Noetinger, Keith Rowe, David Maranha, Ava Mendoza, le cinéaste Hangjun Lee et la chorégraphe/danseuse Mette Ingvartsen.
