Hear new music for percussion quartet by Devonté Hynes in collaboration with Third Coast Percussion, along with new music featuring NY-based electric guitar quartet, Dither.
Listen to music for the New York-based electric guitar quartet, Dither, from their 2019 album, Potential Differences, featuring music by Paula Matthusen, Jascha Narveson, Gyan Riley, and Eve Beglarian. Hear a work by Jascha Narveson, called “The Floaty One” – a study in harmonics that guitars can make. Also, listen to Paula Matthusen’s “but because without this” was originally scored for bluegrass quartet.
Also, hear new music by composer Devonté Hynes (aka R&B singer Blood Orange) arranged and orchestrated by the Chicago ensemble Third Coast Percussion, from a new collaborative record, FIELDS, which includes a dance theatre piece, and other works. Hynes grew up playing cello and cites Philip Glass as a big influence on him as a composer, although when the mallet percussion comes in on “Perfectly Voicesless,” it’s hard not to also think of music by American minimalist Steve Reich.
Then, listen to the full electric guitar ensemble execution of Steve Reich’s iconic work "Electric Counterpoint," performed by electric guitar quartet Dither, guitarist Mark Stewart, and friends, recorded at a New Sounds Live at Brookfield Place in 2015. All thirteen parts were performed live, (not one live, and twelve from backing tracks, as the work is usually done) – in this impressive concert recording from the Winter Garden.
Program #4288: Guitar and Percussion Quartets (First aired 10/16/2019)
ARTIST: Dither Quartet (Taylor Levine, Joshua Lopes, James Moore, & Grey Mcmurray as sub for Gyan Riley) with Mark Stewart, Greg Chudzik, Kevin Gallagher, Stephen Griesgraber, Daniel Lippel, Brendan Randall-Myers, Eleonore Oppenheim, Brett Parnell, Geremy Schulick
WORK: Steve Reich: Electric Counterpoint [1:00]
RECORDING: New Sounds Live, Brookfield Place, Oct. 15, 2015
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: Info at ditherquartet.com
ARTIST: Dither
WORK: Jascha Narveson: The Floaty One [5:18]
RECORDING: Potential Differences
SOURCE: ditherquartet.bandcamp.com
INFO: ditherquartet.com
ARTIST: Third Coast Percussion
WORK: Devonté Hynes: Perfectly Voiceless [11:32]
RECORDING: FIELDS
SOURCE: Cedille Records
INFO: thirdcoastpercussion.com
ARTIST: Dither Quartet (Taylor Levine, Joshua Lopes, James Moore, & Grey Mcmurray as sub for Gyan Riley) with Mark Stewart, Greg Chudzik, Kevin Gallagher, Stephen Griesgraber, Daniel Lippel, Brendan Randall-Myers, Eleonore Oppenheim, Brett Parnell, Geremy Schulick
WORK: Steve Reich: Electric Counterpoint [14:56]
RECORDING: New Sounds Live, Brookfield Place, Oct. 15, 2015
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: Info at ditherquartet.com
ARTIST: Dither
WORK: Paula Matthusen: but because without this [6:32]
RECORDING: Potential Differences
SOURCE: ditherquartet.bandcamp.com
INFO: ditherquartet.com
ARTIST: Third Coast Percussion
WORK: Devonté Hynes: Fields [6:05]
RECORDING: FIELDS
SOURCE: Cedille Records
INFO: thirdcoastpercussion.com
