National Sawdust presents HANDEL + HENDRIX With Dither, R.B. Schlather, and Ruckus

National Sawdust presents HANDEL + HENDRIX with Dither, R.B. Schlather and Ruckus. The evening places Dither, an electric guitar quartet, in a program whose title points to Handel and Hendrix. Dither will present newly commissioned works that channel Hendrix’s experimental language. Schlather and Ruckus are also named in the bill, though the available information does not specify their respective roles, instrumentation, or the evening’s full program.

Dither is identified here as an electric guitar quartet with a focus on new work: the commissions on this program engage directly with Hendrix’s experimental language. The available material does not name the quartet’s members, say where the group is from, or document other repertoire and collaborators. It also offers no reviews of Dither itself. The sole critical quotation supplied concerns R.B. Schlather, whom The New York Times called “one of our more ambitious and effective younger directors.” That description gives some context for one of the billed collaborators, while the musical specifics provided remain centered on Dither’s newly commissioned guitar works.