Australian drummer/percussionist Will Guthrie uses amplified found and junk, microphones, electronics, drums and cymbals. He works in many different settings of music: live performance, improvisation and studio composition.
He studied jazz and improvised music(s) at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia and alongside Ren Walters he started the weekly concert series 'Improvised Tuesdays', now known as the Make It Up Club and is Australia's longest running performance space dedicated to experimental and improvised musics. In Nantes, France he is part of the collective CABLE# which also organises regular concerts and an annual festival.
He also runs the experimental improvised CD label and mailorder service; Antboy Music.
Regular collaborators past and present include Matthew Earle, Adam Sussmann, Ferran Fages, Jean-Philippe Gross, Greg Kingston, Helmut Schafer, Keith Rowe, Jerome Noetinger, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Scott Stroud, Clayton Thomas, Robbie Avenaim, Ren Walters, Erell Latimier, Manu Leduc, Jim Denley, Sebastien Coste, Mark Simmonds, Snuff Puppetts. Will currently lives in Nantes, France.
Projects:
Solo - using various combinations of drums, percussion, amplification and electronics
The Ames Room - minimalist maximalist terror jazz, with Jean-Luc Guionnet and Clayton Thomas
Elwood & Guthrie - appalachian trance folk music, with banjo player and singer Scott Stroud
"...&mics" - investigating relationships between the acoustic, amplified, recording and playback, with Jean-Luc Guionnet and Jerome Noetinger
Duo projects with Jerome Noetinger, Keith Rowe, Mikko Savela, Sebastien Coste, Erell Latimier
Thymolphthalein - with Anthony Pateras, Clayton Thomas, Jerome Noetinger, Natasha Anderson.
Selected discography:
Rose Coded (antboy, 2002)
Building Blocks (antboy, 2003)
Body and limbs still look to light (cathnor, 2006)
Spike(s) - 7" single (pica disc, 2009)
Patrice Grente, Will Guthrie, Cedric Piromalli (Petit Label, 2008)
The Ames Room: In (MonotypeRec, 2009)
Thymolphthalein: Ni maitre, Ni Marteau (DeMEGO, 2010)
