QWAK club #9

Ensemble Nist-Nah (Aus, GB, FR) with Will Guthrie, Prune Becheau, Charles Dubois, Thibault Florent, Colline Grosjean, Amelie Grould, Mark Lockett, Sven Michel, Lucas Pizzini, and Arno Tukiman.

Ensemble Nist-Nah is a contemporary Gamelan / percussion ensemble led by France-based Australian drummer and percussionist Will Guthrie. Nist-Nah explores Gamelan instrumentation, using the metallaphones, hand drums and gongs of Indonesia alongside drum kit, other percussion and objects, found and junk. Bringing together 9 of France’s finest, Ensemble Nist-Nah hosts a wealth of experience and expertise, with it’s members coming from eclectic and mixed backgrounds, from traditional musicians, contemporary percussionists, to noise and free jazz fanatics.

After more than two decades of Guthrie exploring the extremes of experimental drums and percussion (with the likes of Oren Ambarchi, Roscoe Mitchell, Mark Fell, Jean-Luc Guionnet), the music of Ensemble Nist-Nah aims to combine the rich, bright and lush sounds of Gamelan with his interests in free jazz, electro-acoustic music and diverse experimental music practices, exploring temperament play, extended techniques for percussion, and interlocking polyrhythmic and polymeric non metered pulse.

The music is grounded in Guthrie’s travels in Indonesia and his appreciation of various forms of Gamelan music, from the stately suspended temporality of the courtly Javanese Gamelan Sekatan, to the delirious, thuggish repetition that accompanies the Javanese trance ritual Jathilan, to the shimmering acoustic glitch of contemporary Balinese composer Dewa Alit and his Gamelan Salukat. Far from an exercise in exoticism, Ensemble Nist-Nah includes various members with extensive study history of Indonesian musics, namely Mark Lockett who studied with Sri Hastanto, I Wayan Loceng, I Nyoman Partha Gunawan and Arno Tuikman who studied with Ki Widodo Wilis a dhalang from Wonogiri and his son Whayu Thoyyib Pembayun.

Ensemble Nist-Nah will release their first collaborative album, entitled ‘Elders’ early 2022 on Black Truffle Records.

www.ensemble-nist-nah.com
https://willguthrie.bandcamp.com/album/nist-nah

Antonina Nowacka

vocalist / composer / sound artist

Interested in the voice as the most organic synthesizer. Using extended vocal techniques, folk and eastern culture influenced vocal practices, space resonances as well as profound forms of sound processing and synthesis to create minimalistic imaginative landscapes.

A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Receiver of a scholarship from the Indonesian Ministry of Culture in the subject of musicology. A student of hindustani classical music under the supervision of the Gwalior style vocal master Shashwati Mandal. A co-creator of multidisciplinary band WIDT and a musical duo Mentos Gulgendo.

http://www.antoninanowacka.com/

Concessions:exclusively for anyone who is currently unwaged or on a low-income. We are only able to offer a very limited amount of these, so please do not take the piss.

This event will run at 100% capacity. The Cube requests that masks are worn in the building at all times, and a LFT is carried out by all attendees on the day of the event.