Taylor Levine is a New York based guitarist and circuit designer working across the experimental, improvised and composed music communities. He’s made music and recorded with a diverse range of artists such as John Zorn, Lee Ronaldo, Yuka Honda, Steve Reich, Yo La Tengo, Marc Ribot, Nels Cline, Meredith Monk, Erykah Badu, Ted Hearne, Steve Miller, and ensembles including Komische Opera Berlin, Kronos Quartet, London Sinfonietta, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Ensemble Signal, and Alarm Will Sound.
Taylor has been invited to perform at festivals and venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Vértice Festival in Mexico City, Royal Albert Hall and Sound Unbound Festival at Barbican Centre in London, Casa da Musica in Porto, Jazz em Agosto in Lisbon, Musica Festival at Le Maillon in Strasbourg, Sacrum Profanum in Kraków, Borealis Festival in Bergen, Norway, The Fringe Club in Hong Kong, City Recital Hall in Sydney, and Melbourne Recital Hall in Melbourne.
Taylor founded and co-directs the electric guitar quartet, Dither, whose music making has been described by the New York Times as "sophisticated, hard-driving, and stylistically omnivorous." In addition to touring, composing, producing and commissioning original work, Dither has held visiting artist residencies at Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, and NYU.