July 23, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged dither
Colossal at one moment and reduced to a few notes in another, the music defines a mineral and rigorous world where pleasure opens up to vigorous overtures ... An astounding example of what modern music can be in creating its own instrumental form and borrowing freely from pre-existing music.
July 7, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged dither
... all of Dither's music wholeheartedly embraces the beautiful, engulfing, and often gloriously loud sound of electric guitars
June 21, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged dither
Nowadays the electric guitar has become ubiquitous, deployed to vastly different ends in a wide variety of formats. The New York quartet Dither focuses almost exclusively on sounds produced by electric guitars — clean, plucked lines, strummed chords, grungy feedback, resonating overtones, even the static buzz of amps and loose plugs...
June 14, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged dither
... there’s a consistent dedication to thinking out of the box and just simply having fun.
June 14, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged dither
It’s an intriguing debut by a group that summarizes much of the electric guitar’s history (from Dick Dale to Fred Frith) and mines further possibilities of their own.
June 14, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged dither
Prepare your ears.
May 20, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged dither
A string quartet of a rare breed: a VERY noisy electric guitar quartet pairing the serious aspect of written contemporary music and the raw energy of rock - no feeble attempt at a fusion of genres, but a successful uncompromising blend.
May 14, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged dither
this cd is bad ass! good work.
May 14, 2010 | Posted in So Forth | Tagged Bonnie Whiting Smith, Brian Archinal, Conrad Prebys Hall, Dustin Donahue, Justin deHart, Mark Applebaum, red fish blue fish, Ross Karre, Stephen Solook, Steven Schick
red fish blue fish at UCSD's Conrad Prebys Hall on May 11, 2010 was stellar in all regards. I have been to lots of concerts and I must say that this one was one of my favorites. Many concerts have at least one piece I thought was wonderful but this concert was completely full of good music.
April 22, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged incidental
"Incidental", by Minneapolis composer Mike Olson, is an intricate and amusing work, which chews and spits the author's accumulated experiences with a constant alternating tension between 1970s vintage Jazz and Rock.