Oren Ambarchi (b. 1969) – Australian guitarist, drummer and improviser.
His career started in 1986, when he was playing with several jazz bands. At the beginning of the 90. together with Robbie Avenaim he created a post-punk noise band Phlegm and with Nicki Kamiussis – The Menstruation Sisters. The guitarist only began his solo career in 1997, when he entered the Japanoise phase taking inspiration from bands like The Hanatarash, Masonna or Grim, and “academic” composers like Alvin Lucier and John Cage.

He has received numerous awards, presenting new music on avant-garde festivals and won fame and recognition for his performances in the jazz and experimental music scene. His music is based on unconventionally manipulated electric guitar sound; he explores the instrument’s acoustic potential in slower segments mixing them with a cacophony of noise and drone.

He has had many successful collaborations (with such artists as Christian Fennesz, Otomo Yoshihide, John Zorn, Voice Crack, Keith Rowe or Zbigniew Karkowski). He is a co-founder of the What Is Music? festival, which focuses on recent trends in contemporary music. Recently, he has collaborated intensively with Sunn O))) on the band’s tours and in independent projects with Sunn O)))’s musicians: Burial Chamber Trio (Ambarchi, Greg Anderson, Atilla Csihar – member of the black metal band Mayhem) and Gravetemple (Ambarchi, Stephen O’Malley and Atilla Csihar).