Dither, a New York based electric guitar quartet, is dedicated to an eclectic mix of experimental repertoire, spanning composed music, improvisation, and electronic manipulation. Formed in 2007, the quartet has performed in the United States and abroad, presenting new commissions, original compositions, multimedia works and large guitar ensemble pieces. With sounds ranging from clean pop textures to heavily processed noise, from tight rhythmic unity to cacophonous sound mass, all of Dither's music wholeheartedly embraces the beautiful, engulfing, and often gloriously loud sound of electric guitars. The quartet’s members are Taylor Levine, David Linaburg, Josh Lopes, and James Moore.
Among Dither's recent collaborators include downtown bagpiper Matthew Welch, composers Eve Beglarian and David Lang, and guitarist/composers Bryce Dessner, Nick Didkovsky, Marco Cappelli, Elliott Sharp, and Mark Stewart. In Fall of 2008, the quartet traveled to Hong Kong to premiere an evening-length theatrical work by Samson Young, “Hong Kong Explodes!†funded by the Hong Kong Council for the Arts. Dither has also performed extensively in venues in the Northeast, including The Stone, Issue Project Room, Le Poisson Rouge, Princeton University, Clark University, and the MATA Interval series. The quartet recently performed at the Bang on a Can Marathon, giving a monstrous performance of Eric km Clark's exPAT, a Dither commission for "hearing deprived" electric guitar orchestra.
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