Wednesday 15 January 2025, 7.30pm
Excited to present a first time duo set from ace Australian drummer / percussionist, Will Guthrie, and Koshihiro Hino of cult Japanese group, goat, YP and ANTIBODIES Collective!
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.
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, Ava Mendoza, the film maker Hangjun Lee and choreographer/dancer Mette Ingvartsen.
Hino is a player and composer for the bands goat (jp) and bonanzas. His significant compositions include the hybrid orchestra Virginal Variations (2016), blending classical instruments with electronic sounds, and GEIST (2018-), a fusion of numerous speakers and moving full-body performance piece, INTERDIFFUSION A tribute to Yoshi Wada (2021-) in collaboration with sound artist FUJI|||||||||||TA, and others.
Since 2019, Hino has collaborated with Sado-based taiko performing arts group Kodo, most notably on the music film Shiver (2021, dir. Toshiaki Toyoda), filmed during a month-long residency on Sado Island. Hino composed all the music for this film, performed by Kodo.
He is a member of the ANTIBODIES Collective, founded by musician/director Toshio Kajiwara and dancer/choreographer Yoko Higashino. He has also provided music for choreographer Cindy Van Acker’s work Without References, among others.
In 2023, he performed his new composition Phase Transition with Masayoshi Fujita and Ken Furudate (of Dumb Type) at Rohm Theatre Kyoto. This year, he composed music for an Estonian film director Rainer Sarnet’s 2024 feature film The Invisible Fight. This composition was awarded the Best Composition at the Estonian Film Award (EFTA2024).
Breathing Heavy is the saxophone and sampler duo of Sam Andreae and Ciaran Mackle.
Ciaran Mackle is one half of long-running South London improv duo Ashcircle. Specialising in micro feral concrète and music to soundtrack the grinding and repetitive feeling of endless Tory rule. He explores a restricted sound palette, and what happens when language and discourse are squeezed so that all meaning and context is lost.
https://ashcircle.bandcamp.com/
Sam Andreae has been active across Europe over the last decade as a saxophonist, composer and organiser. Through improvisation and composition he explores a music of colliding sound gestures and aural detritus, built up from an intentionally fractured instrumental language and playful spontaneity. His compositions place a focus on gestural processes which in their unraveling reveal a trail of sound artefacts to be picked through.
https://samandreae.com/
“what Sam Andreae does is liminal music, he shows you the clicks, the noises, the breaths, the rattle and hum” – John Doran, Quietus, 2017 on BBC 3 Late Junction
Lucia H Chung is a Taiwanese artist based in London, United Kingdom. She performs and releases music under the alias ‘en creux’ where the sound creation springs from her fascinations in noise generated through no-input feedback mixing board. The volatile nature of the system and the unpredictable glitch from the excessive energy pouring into the equipment becomes her improvisational and compositional strategy.
Lucia’s passion lies in live performance and has regularly performed solo and with collaborators in the UK, Europe, Asia and North America, including Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival, Krama Festival, Lisboa Soa Festival, Sanatorium of Sound Festival and Festival Electropixel.
‘Fuzz comes alive, moving at odd angles like the sinuous threads are being chased by a series of subatomic bleeps and flashes. Tension rises as the tempo picks up, fueling the disjointed rhythmic quality within each sterile, self-contained unit.’ – Fox Digitalis
