Dessner has also received widespread acclaim as a composer and guitarist for the improvising new music quartet, Clogs and has performed and/or recorded with some of the world’s most creative musicians including songwriters Sufjan Stevens, Bon Iver, and Antony Hegarty, Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo, composers Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Nico Muhly and Michael Gordon, the contemporary ensembles, Kronos Quartet and the Bang on a Can All-Stars, and visual artist Matthew Ritchie. In 2012, Bryce and his brother Aaron brought The Long Count to Barbican in London for its UK debut and are currently creating the score for the film “Big Sur”. Dessner is also the creator and artistic director of the acclaimed MusicNO W Festival in Cincinnati, Ohio, which will present its seventh season in March 2012.