William Winant (born 1953) is an American

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

ist.

In addition to his work in contemporary classical music—notably performing

Lou Harrison Lou Silver Harrison (May 14, 1917 – February 2, 2003) was an American composer, music critic, music theorist, painter, and creator of unique musical instruments. Harrison initially wrote in a dissonant, ultramodernist style similar to his for ...

's compositions—Winant has worked in a variety of genres, including

noise rock Noise rock (sometimes called noise punk) is a noise-oriented style of experimental rock that spun off from punk rock in the 1980s. Drawing on movements such as minimalism, industrial music, and New York hardcore, artists indulge in extre ...

free improvisation Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician(s) involved. The term can refer to both a technique (employed by any musician in any genre) and as a recognizable genre in its ...

and

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a m ...

. Notable collaborators include

Glenn Spearman Glenn Spearman (February 14, 1947 – October 8, 1998) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He was associated with free jazz and experimental music. Spearman was active in Oakland, California, in the late 1960s but moved to Paris in 1972 and ...

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, Sonic Youth,

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(with whom he toured in support of their albums '' Disco Volante'' and ''

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''),

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, ''

Mondo Cane ''Mondo Cane'' (literally "Doggish World" or "Dog's World", a mild Italian profanity) is a 1962 Italian mondo documentary film and directed by the trio of Gualtiero Jacopetti, Paolo Cavara, and Franco E. Prosperi, with narration by Stefano S ...

'' and

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. A member of the Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio, he has also frequently collaborated with John Zorn. He received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2016). Winant attended the

California Institute of the Arts The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a private art university in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for students of both ...

for a couple of years before dropping out to go tour with Oingo Boingo. He later received an undergraduate degree from

York University York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,0 ...

before pursuing graduate work at

Mills College Mills College at Northeastern University is a private college in Oakland, California and part of Northeastern University's global university system. Mills College was founded as the Young Ladies Seminary in 1852 in Benicia, California; it was ...

in Oakland,

, where he is currently a faculty member. He also gives percussion lessons and teaches the percussion ensemble at the

University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California system. Located on Monterey Bay, on the edge of ...

Films

*1995 - ''Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy - Harry Partch, Lou Harrison, and Terry Riley''. Directed by Michael Blackwood.

Discography

Productions under the direction of Winant *

– ''La Koro Sutro'' (1988) *

Bun-Ching Lam Lam Bun-Ching (; b. Macau, 1954) is a Chinese American composer, pianist, and conductor. Early life and training Lam holds a B.A. degree in piano performance from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1976). She obtained a scholarship from the Un ...

– ''...Like Water'' (Tzadik, 1997) *

Luc Ferrari Luc Ferrari (February 5, 1929 – August 22, 2005) was a French composer of Italian heritage and a pioneer in musique concrète and electroacoustic music. He was a founding member of RTF's Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRMC), working alongsid ...

– ''Cellule 75'' (Tzadik, 1998) with Chris Brown * Christian Wolff – ''Burdocks'' (Tzadik, 2001) * Lou Harrison – ''Drums Along the Pacific'' (New Albion, 2003) * Peter Garland – ''Love Songs'' (Tzadik, 2005) All pieces written for Winant. * Fred Frith – ''Back to Life'' (Tzadik, 2008) As equal member of groups and projects * White Out (with Jim O'Rourke) – ''China Is Near'' (ATP, 2005) * Gratkowski / Brown / Winant (with Frank Gratkowski and Chris Brown) – ''Wake'' (Red Toukan, 2009) * Gratkowski / Brown / Winant and Gerhard E. Winkler – ''Vermilion Traces / Donaueschingen 2009'' (Leo, 2012) With Chris Brown * ''Room'' with Larry Ochs (Sound Aspects, 1989) * ''Lava'' (Tzadik, 1995) * ''Duets'' (1996), Winant only on "Duo" * ''Rouge Wave'' (2005) * ''Iconicities'' (New Albion, 2011) With John Cage,

Joan LaBarbara Joan Linda La Barbara (born June 8, 1947) is an American vocalist and composer known for her explorations of non-conventional or "extended" vocal techniques. Considered to be a vocal virtuoso in the field of contemporary music, she is credited wit ...

* ''John Cage at Summerstage'' with

Leonard Stein Leonard David Stein (December 1, 1916 – June 24, 2004) was a musicologist, pianist, conductor, university teacher, and influential in promoting contemporary music on the American West Coast. He was for years Arnold Schoenberg's assistant, mu ...

(rec. 1992, Music and Arts Programs of America, 1995) * ''Music for 17'' with the San Francisco Symphony Players, Stephen L. Mosko (1993) With Alvin Curran * ''Theme Park'' (Tzadik, 1998)'' With Danny Elfman * ''

Batman Returns ''Batman Returns'' is a 1992 American superhero film directed by Tim Burton and written by Daniel Waters. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, it is the sequel to ''Batman'' (1989) and the second installment in the 1989–1997 ''Batman ...

'' (1992) With Fred Frith * ''Eleventh Hour'' (Winter & Winter/WDR 3, 2005) Winant plays guitars on Stick Figurs (for 6 Guitars and 2 Players, 1990) * ''The Happy End Problem (Music for Dance'' (Fred, 2006) With

* ''Double Concerto'' (1983) * ''First Recordings, Solstice, and Ariadne'' (1990) * ''3rd Symphony'' with

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, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra (1990) With

Jon Hassell Jon Hassell (March 22, 1937 – June 26, 2021) was an American trumpet player and composer. He was best known for developing the concept of "Fourth World" music, which describes a "unified primitive/futurist sound" combining elements of various ...

* ''Vernal Equinox'' (1977) With Joan Jeanrenaud * ''Strange Toys'' (2008) With Alvin Lucier * ''Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas Part II Numbers 5-8'' (1984, reissue 2003) With Roscoe Mitchell *''

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'' ( RogueArt, 2011) * '' Angel City'' (RogueArt, 2012) *'' Bells for the South Side'' (ECM, 2017) With

and Tom Surgal * ''Piece for Jetsun Dolma'' (Les Éditions Victoriaville, 1996) * ''Lost to the City / Noise to Nowhere'' (Intakt, 2000) With

* '' Disco Volante'' (Warner Bros., 1995) * ''

'' (Warner Bros., 1998) With

Mike Patton Michael Allan Patton (born January 27, 1968) is an American singer, producer, film composer and voice actor, best known as the lead vocalist of the alternative metal band Faith No More. Noted for his vocal proficiency, diverse singing techni ...

* ''

Pranzo Oltranzista ''Pranzo Oltranzista'' is Mike Patton's second solo project. It is subtitled "Musica da Tavola per Cinque" (literally translated as ''Banquet Piece for Five Players''), and is based on "Futurist Cookbook" by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, written in ...

'' (Tzadik, 1997) with John Zorn,

Marc Ribot Marc Ribot (; born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer. His work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, rock, and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, most notably Tom Wai ...

and

Eric Friedlander Eric Mark Friedlander (born January 7, 1944 in Santurce, Puerto Rico) is an American mathematician who is working in algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, algebraic K-theory and representation theory. Friedlander graduated from Swarthmore ...

With

* ''Zulfikar II'' (1998) * ''Hurqala: 2nd Grand Constitution & Bylaws'' (1998) * ''Book M'' (2001) * ''Path of Most Resistance'' (2007) With

* ''

Mystery Project ''Mystery Project'' is the first album by American jazz saxophonist Glenn Spearman Double Trio, which was recorded in 1992 and released on the Italian Black Saint label. Background The concept of the Double Trio was born at Oakland Improvisers F ...

'' (1993) * ''

Smokehouse A smokehouse (North American) or smokery (British) is a building where meat or fish is cured with smoke. The finished product might be stored in the building, sometimes for a year or more.

'' (1994) * '' The Fields'' (1996) With David Tanenbaum * ''Lou Harrison – Serenado'' (New Albion, 2003, expanded reissue of ''The Perilous Chapel'') * ''Terry Riley – Book of Abbeyozzud'' (New Albion, 1999) With

James Tenney James Tenney (August 10, 1934 – August 24, 2006) was an American composer and music theorist. He made significant early musical contributions to plunderphonics, sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, process music, spectral music, microto ...

* ''

Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th-century classical music, 20th and early 21st-century ...

–

Kontakte ''Kontakte'' ("Contacts") is an electronic music work by Karlheinz Stockhausen, realized in 1958–60 at the ''Westdeutscher Rundfunk'' (WDR) electronic-music studio in Cologne with the assistance of Gottfried Michael Koenig. The score is Nr. 12 ...

'' (Recorded 1978, Ecstatic Peace, 1997) first live recording of “Kontakte” (1959/60) With John Zorn * ''

Elegy An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, and in English literature usually a lament for the dead. However, according to ''The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy'', "for all of its pervasiveness ... the 'elegy' remains remarkably ill defined: sometime ...

'' (Eva, 1992) * ''

Kristallnacht () or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom(s) (german: Novemberpogrome, ), was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's (SA) paramilitary and (SS) paramilitary forces along with some participation fro ...

'' (Eva, 1993) * '' Music for Children'' (Tzadik, 1998) * '' Xu Feng'' (Tzadik, 2000) * '' Chimeras'' (Tzadik, 2003) * ''

Rituals A ritual is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or objects, performed according to a set sequence. Rituals may be prescribed by the traditions of a community, including a religious community. Rituals are characterized, b ...

'' (Tzadik, 2004) * '' From Silence to Sorcery'' (Tzadik, 2007) * '' Music and Its Double'' (Tzadik, 2012) *''

Fragmentations, Prayers and Interjections ''Fragmentations, Prayers and Interjections'' is an album composed by John Zorn and featuring the Arcana Orchestra which was recorded in New York City in 2013 and released on the Tzadik label in March 2014.

'' (Tzadik, 2014)

References

External links

http://www.williamwinant.com/Art of the States: William Winant

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* performed by members of the William Winant Percussion Group. {{DEFAULTSORT:Winant, William 1953 births Living people American percussionists Contemporary classical music performers RogueArt artists