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NYU Awards Funding to Composer Patrick Grant for Tilted Axes Projects
I am happy to find out that I received a 2019-2020 cash award from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. The award, from the Adjunct Professional Development Fund, is to further develop my work with mobile electric guitar ensembles in composition, performance, and public engagement. As a medium, the work will be used to address community concerns (i.e. the use of public spaces), global concerns (i.e. climate change and renewable energy), and future concerns (i.e. space exploration and unforeseen discoveries). Above all, it’s about creating music together and moving it out into the world. Thank you, NYU! – Patrick Grant
#art #music #science #tiltedaxes
Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars
“96 Tears” – Tracing the Roots of American Punk Back to Detroit
An American Icon on Public Radio International’s STUDIO 360
“53 years ago this week, ‘96 Tears‘ by ? and The Mysterians rose to #1 on the pop charts. This week on Studio 360, the roots of American punk are traced back to Detroit in this brand new American Icons piece produced by Jocelyn Gonzales and Pedro Rafael Rosado, with Rob St. Mary, Ralph Valdez, Mary Cobra, New York Times’ Jon Pareles, and help from Patrick Grant and WDET 101.9FM.” (27 min.)
LISTEN: www.pri.org/stories/2019-10-24/american-icons-96-tears
2020: Tilted Axes Goes to Mars
#NASA – “On a more cosmic note, Tilted Axes goes to Mars in 2020. Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars has joined the roster of names that will be inscribed onto a silicon chip as part of the 2020 Mars rover mission. Engineers with the Microdevices Laboratory at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California will stencil all the names onto the chip with an electron beam. “This is part of a public engagement campaign to highlight missions involved with NASA’s journey from the Moon to Mars,” NASA officials wrote in a statement. 
The 2020 Mars rover is scheduled to launch to the Red Planet on July 2020 and land inside the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater. The 2,300-lb. (1,040 kilograms) rover, with its nuclear power source, will search for signs of past microbial life, study the climate and geology of Mars, and collect samples that may be returned to Earth on a future mission”. #TiltedAxes #GoesToMars
For Your 2019 GRAMMY AWARDS® Consideration
“FIELDS AMAZE and other sTRANGE music”
by Tilted Axes creator Patrick Grant
new recordings from his classic catalog
* Contemporary Instrumental Album
* Instrumental Composition: “Keeping Still”
* Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance: “Imaginary Horror Film – Part 2″
The 62nd GRAMMY AWARDS® First Round Voting begins September 25th
Listen on Soundcloud: http://bit.ly/2n1Phue
More iNFO: http://bit.ly/2mtfemf
Alternative Nation: Grant Receives 3 Grammy Entries
“Last year, Alternative Nation praised composer-guitarist Patrick Grant’s album, Fields Amaze and other sTRANGE music. And it turns out that the applause was indeed well deserved, as the album has three entries in the running for selection for the 62nd Grammy Awards taking place January 2020 – Best Contemporary Instrumental Album (for Fields Amaze), Best Instrumental Composition (for “Keeping Still”), and Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance (for “Imaginary Horror Film – Part 2″).
Described as ‘Unexpected rhythms, outside of the box instrumentation and a completely, uncompromising barrage of artistic individuality’ by Alt Nation’s Joe Hughes, several genres are touched upon concerning Grant’s original style/approach, which blends together instrumental, experimental/avant-garde, prog, jazz, and soundscapes…”
Read the complete article on Alternation Nation HERE: https://www.alternativenation.net/patrick-grant-fields-amaze-receives-three-grammy-entries/
FIELDS AMAZE Gets Three Entries in the 62nd Grammy Awards®!
http://www.strangemusic.com/famaze.html
FIELDS AMAZE & Other sTRANGE Music Gets Three Entries in the 62nd Grammy Awards®!
Official entries for your consideration…
1. Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
Fields Amaze and Other sTRANGE Music
2. Best Instrumental Composition
Keeping Still
3. Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
Imaginary Horror Film – Part 2
First Round voting begins Sept. 25
Patrick Grant: piano, keyboards, electric guitars, percussion
John Ferrari: drums & percussion
Kathleen Supove & Marija Ilic: keyboards
David Simons: theremin
Keith Bonner: flute
Thomas P. Oberle: clarinet
Darryl Gregory: trombone
Martha Mooke: viola
Maxine Neumann: cello
Mark Steven Brooks: electric bass
Alexandra Montano: vocalise
All 2018 production, overdubs, revisions, and new stems recorded at Peppergreen Media, NYC and The Ferrari Factory, NJ. Mixed at Mercy Sound Studios, NYC – Garry Rindfuss: mixing engineer – Sheldon Steiger: album mastering – Patrick Grant: producer
All music © 1997-2018 Patrick Grant and published by Peppergreen Media (ASCAP). This album ℗ 2018. All rights reserved.
A Special Thanks to Our Co-producers from Tilted Axes
Dear co-producers, sponsors, and supporters,
Thank you for much for your support throughout the spring and summer. With your help, we’ve been able to present a number of free performances to the public.
Most recently we completed our residency at the 27th Annual Concert of Colors in Detroit at the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Michigan Science Center. Over two days we were able to perform for a couple thousand people live and many more than that through television.
The response was incredible. Every paper and magazine made us a Critics’ Pick and we were well represented on the the radio, WDET and CJAM especially.
With your help, we created a new type of work that will resonate for a long time. Now we have something that can be presented with other museums, science centers, and transformative community arts organizations. This will come.
If you will be receiving an award from our last campaign (T-shirt, CD, etc.), you will be getting notice of this shortly. If you want to pick up some more or want to encourage a friend to support us, you can always send them to this link: https://bit.ly/2Y1gvOb
And so, we thank you again on this 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moonwalk.
Ever forward,
Patrick Grant & Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars
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PHOTOS – Tilted Axes: PROMENADE at the Detroit Institute of Arts – https://bit.ly/2xVXAtP
PHOTOS – Tilted Axes: MOONWALK at the Michigan Science Center – https://bit.ly/2XUfMDz
VIDEO – Tilted Axes: Performing “Techno Tilt” on FOX 2 Detroit – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLEYE0ZA6hA
VIDEO – Tilted Axes: “On the Steps of the Kresge Court” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHyxm7Loaow
PRESS – Tilted Axes PR on Broadway World – https://bit.ly/30oqmz8
Tilted Axes: “On the Steps of the Kresge Court”
Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars performs in the Kresge Court at the Detroit Institute of Arts as part of the 27th Annual Concert of Colors on July 12, 2019. #TiltedAxes Original video shot by @doooovid and music © 2019 Patrick Grant/Peppergreen Media (ASCAP) http://www.tiltedaxes.com
Tilted Axes: Performing “Techno Tilt” on Fox 2 Detroit
Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars promotes the 27th Annual Concert of Colors on Fox 2 Detroit, July 11, 2019. #TiltedAxes © 2019 Patrick Grant/Peppergreen Media (ASCAP) http://www.tiltedaxes.com
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