http://www.ditherquartet.com/ “The quartet concept: the gravitas of four corners, circle in square, life cubed and balanced.” Elliott Sharp, from the notes in the cd Dither Cominciamo con dare qualche coordinata: chi sono i Dither? I Dither sono un quartetto di chitarre elettriche con base a New York, che presentano un complesso e sofisticato DNA basato…
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Dither, the electric guitar quartet from New York on #neuguitars #blog
http://www.ditherquartet.com/ “The quartet concept: the gravitas of four corners, circle in square, life cubed and balanced.” Elliott Sharp, from the notes in the cd “Dither” Let’s start with giving some coordinates: who is Dither? The Dither is a quartet of electric guitars based in New York, which present a complex and sophisticated DNA based on…
James Moore plays Matthew Welch – Gorgamor the Giant Gecko on #neuguitars #blog
James Moore plays “Gorgamor the Giant Gecko” by Matthew Welch on the 5-string banjo. Moore is a New York based guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, Welch is a composer and virtuoso of the highland bagpipe who is also involved with free improvisation and balinese gamelan — The result is a beautiful hybrid with influences from Indonesian, Scottish…
#Recensione di Dither plays Zorn, John Zorn’s Olympiad Vol.1, Tzadik, 2015 su #neuguitars #blog
Recensione di Dither plays Zorn, John Zorn’s Olympiad Vol.1, Tzadik, 2015 “I never specifically told anyone anything. I set up rules where they could tell each other when to play. It’s a pretty democratic process. I really don’t have any control over how long the piece is, or what happens in it.” John Zorn in…
#Review of Dither plays Zorn, John Zorn’s Olympiad Vol. 1, Tzadik, 2015 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Dither plays Zorn, John Zorn’s Olympiad Vol. 1, Tzadik, 2015 “I never told anyone anything. I set up rules where they could tell each other when to play. It’s a pretty democratic process. I really do not have any control over how long the piece is, or what happens in it. “ John…
#Recensione di Dither, Dither, Henceforth records, 2010 su #neuguitars #blog
Recensione di Dither, Dither, Henceforth records, 2010 Incomincia in maniera quasi innocente questo cd, diversi secondi si suoni tenui e impalpabili, quasi glitch sfocati in lontananza, costringono a elevare la soglia dell’attenzione,a guardare il minutaggio sul lettore, a chiedersi se non sia il caso di alzare il volume … non fatelo, dopo quasi un minuti…
#podcast James Moore: Strings and Things on #neuguitars #blog
The podcast goes unplugged this week! Our host, Patrick Grant is in the front parlor with James Moore of the Dither Guitar Quartet. They’ve got National and Ovation acoustic guitars and they intend to use them. We’ll find out how James made it from the San Francisco Bay Area to the new music scene here in New…
#Review of Dither by Dither, HenceForth records, 2010
Review of Dither by Dither, HenceForth records, 2010 This cd begins in almost innocent way, several seconds of soft and impalpable, almost glitch sounds lost in a distance, force to raise the threshold of the attention, to look at the timing on the cd player, to wonder if we should rise the volume … please…
#video James Moore: The Hunt for Sonic Solutions on #neuguitars #blog
James Moore: The Hunt for Sonic Solutions With three guitars, fifteen balloons, a talking doll, and a serious commitment, composer and guitarist James Moore recorded John Zorn’s The Book of Heads, a challenging collection of 35 etudes now available on a CD/DVD set from Tzadik.
#video James Moore plays John Zorn’s Book of Heads, #1 on #neuguitars #blog
James Moore plays John Zorn’s Book of Heads, #1 On Saturday, June 16, 8:00 pm at the Incubator Arts Project in St. Mark’s Church (formerly the Ontological Theater) James Moore gave a complete recital of The Book of Heads, John Zorn’s strange and wonderful collection of guitar solos. These pieces are rarely performed in their…
#Interview with James Moore (June 2017) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with James Moore http://www.jamesmooreguitar.com/ When did you start playing the guitar and why? I took piano and clarinet lessons from a younger age, and it was my older sister who had the guitar (a small nylon-string on which she strummed Cat Stevens tunes.) I think I was 13 when I first dug it out…
#Recensione di James Moore plays The Book of Heads, 2015 Tzadik
Recensione di James Moore plays The Book of Heads, 2015 Tzadik James Moore è un chitarrista e un multi-strumentista dalla notevole versatilità, uno dei membri fondatori del quartetto di chitarre elettriche Dither, e un interprete a livello internazionale sia come solista che membro di diversi altri ensemble. Nativo della Bay Area, Moore ha studiato chitarra…
#Review of James Moore plays The Book of Heads, 2015 Tzadik
Review of James Moore plays The Book of Heads, 2015 Tzadik James Moore is a versatile guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, a founding member of the electric guitar quartet Dither, and performs internationally as a soloist and ensemble player. A native of the Bay Area, James Moore studied classical guitar at UC Santa Cruz and the Yale School…
