Tony Buck

Tony Buck is regarded as one of Australia’s most creative and adventurous exports, with vast experience across the globe. As a drummer, percussionist, improviser, guitarist, video maker, and producer, he has been involved in a highly diverse array of projects, but is probably best known around the world as a member of the experimental jazz trio The Necks.

Apart from The Necks, he has played, toured or recorded with Jon Rose, Otomo Yoshihide, John Zorn, T. Cora, Phil Minton, Haino, Evan Parker, The Machine for Making Sense, Lee Ranaldo, Ne Zhdall, The Ex, Clifford Jordan, and Ground Zero.

Following his studies and early experience in Australia, he spent time in Japan, where he formed the band Peril with Otomo Yoshihide and Kato Hideki before relocating to Europe in the mid-nineties.

Some of the more high profile projects he has been involved with include the band Kletka Red; touring and recording with The Ex, The Exiles, and Corkestra, among others; and his involvement with most of the international improvisation and new music community and festivals.

He also creates video works for live music performance and has had pieces shown in Tokyo, Belfast, Berlin, New York, and Sydney.

His current projects include a live solo adaption of Unearth music, incorporating installations, video, drums, and guitar; Spill, a duo with Magda Mayas; Transmit, a guitar-driven post rock project; Glacial, a New York based trio with David Watson and Lee Ranaldo; Circadia, with Kim Myhr, David Stackenas, and Joe Williamson; a long standing duo with Axel Doerner; and several continuing ad hoc and improvised performance settings.