Adam Levin - Warr Guitar/Keyboards/Loops
Adam Levin
Warr Guitar/Keyboards/Loops

Adam began playing guitar in 1980 and has also dabbled with bass, keyboards and drums over the years. Since 1995 he has been a student of Guitar Craft and worked with New Standard Tuning for guitar in guitar circles in North and South America.

At one such circle in 1995 he had the opportunity to test drive a participant's Chapman Stick. He was fascinated by the possibilities of touchstyle techniques. As opposed to traditional guitar techniques where one hand frets notes and the other is used to pick or pluck the strings, with touchstyle one creates sounds by merely tapping the strings on the fretboard. Since a second hand is not required to pick/pluck, this affords the player the freedom to use both hands to play independent and interlocking guitar and bass parts. Adam started exploring the world of touchstyle when he bought a used Stick in February of 1997. In 1998 Adam switched to 8 string touch guitars custom built for him by Mark Warr of Warr Guitars which allow him access to a wider range of sounds and techniques. Adam's Warr is an 8 string instrument with the full range of a bass and guitar played wth the touchstyle techniques. Adam has studied touchstyle techniques with Frank Jolliffe, Trey Gunn and Markus Reuter and organized TapTech seminars for touchstyle musicians in the late 90's.

From 1996-2002 Adam organized concerts in the Baltimore area with artists including past and present King Crimson members Tony Levin, Bill Bruford and Trey Gunn as well as David Torn, Michael Manring, California Guitar Trio, Europa String Choir, Deus ex Machina, Anekdoten, Present, Thinking Plague, Happy Rhodes, Djam Karet, Annie Haslam (Rennaisance) and Daevid Allen (Gong) just to name a few.



Adam's current Dark Aether Project performance setup:
Warr TSG-8 8 String Touch Style Guitar [Main instrument]
Austin Douglas 8 String Touch Style Guitar [Backup instrument]
Parker P38 Electric Guitar
Fender 5 String Jazz Bass
Yamaha CS1X Synthesizer
Boss GT5 Processor
Boss SP-202 Sampler
Oberheim Echoplex Digital Pro
E-Bow Plus
Rolls RM65 Mixer
Shure UT UHF Wireless System
Mackie SRM 450 400 watt Biamped Speaker Cabinet

...and additionally in the studio:
Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar
Ovation Legend Acoustic Guitar
Ibanez Artist Electric Guitar
Roland GR-1 Guitar Synthesizer
Fender Precision Bass
Curbow Fretless Bass
Peavey Classic 50 Combo Tube Amplifier
Hartke 3500 Bass Head
Hartke 410 Bass Cabinet
Peavey 1x15 Black Widow Cabinet
Pearl Drums
Remo Rototoms
Zildjian Cymbals
Roland V-Drums


Photography by Jeff Kushner