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Tilted Axes: The Longest Night — Winter Solstice NYC

“Tilted Axes: The Longest Night” from 5:00-7:00pm at The Hugh plaza, 601 Lexington Avenue at E 53rd Street (Citicorp Building).

Part of Make Music New York — Make Music Winter 2023

Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars, led by composer and performer Patrick Grant, is an orchestra of guitarists who perform original, untethered music via portable mini-amps accompanied by percussionists. The project is informed by urban street band traditions, avant-garde theater and ancient music, and creates interactive spectacles that spark community conversation. The program includes three numbers — “Standing Still,” “Tiltinnabulation,” and Philip Glass’ “Knee Play 3” from Einstein on the Beach — with participatory handbell roles to transform the audience into music makers, no experience necessary. Presented in partnership with BXP.  

Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars is a project of Peppergreen Media andis powered by Vox Amplification courtesy of KORG USA. We thank our performance partners Strange Music Inc., and Alchemical Rehearsal Studios.

Taking New Music Out Into The World — The 12th season of Tilted Axes is made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, the ASCAP Plus+ Awards, the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Adjunct Development Fund, but mostly through the generous support of you the public through our fiscal sponsor Fractured Atlas.

Check out our socials for more information:

http://www.tiltedaxes.com @tiltedaxes #tiltedaxes

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Tilted Axes / NYC Village Halloween Parade 2023

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TILTED AXES: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars

NYC Village Halloween Parade, Tuesday, October 31, 7:00-10:00pm

Spring Street & 6th Avenue to 16th Street and 6th Avenue

TILTED AXES: MEMENTO MORI — Electric Guitars: Gene Ardor, Angela Babin, Ben Bray, Jessica Dankowitz, Ryan Due, Michael Fisher, Patrick Grant (director), John Halo, Liz Hogg, Jim Lee, Kyle Miller, Anthony Mullin, Dmitri Shapira, Jeremy Slater, Monica Smith, Keith Steimel, Kammy Yedor — Electric Bass: Al Messina, Jeremy Nesse, Kevin Pfeiffer, Sarah Metivier Schadt — Accordion: Dean Olsher — Saxophone: George Monteleone — Violin: Karina Byakova — Percussion: John Ferrari, Roxan Jurkevich, Alec Miniero, Bileshia Sproling — Satellites: Faye Bellucci, Asya Gribov, Proinsias Hederman, Jaidev Nesse — Standard Bearers: Howie Kenty, Alex Lahoski — Choreography: Christopher Caines — Media Producer: Jocelyn Gonzales … and others TBA

TILTED AXES: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars is an ensemble created and led by composer Patrick Grant.The project takes on aspects of spectacle informed by the tradition of urban street bands, avant-garde theater, and ancient music. It takes music out into the world and seeks transformative situations meant to change the conversation.

Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars is a project of Peppergreen Media andis powered by Vox Amplification courtesy of KORG USA. We thank our performance partners Strange Music Inc., and Alchemical Rehearsal Studios.

Taking New Music Out Into The World — The 12th season of Tilted Axes is made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, the ASCAP Plus+ Awards, the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Adjunct Development Fund, but mostly through the generous support of you the public through our fiscal sponsor Fractured Atlas.

Check out our socials for more information:

http://www.tiltedaxes.com @tiltedaxes #tiltedaxes

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Tilted Axes / Art in Odd Places: DRESS 2023

TILTED AXES: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars

Art in Odd Places 2023: DRESS curated by Gretchen Vitamvas

Sat., Oct. 14th, 12-3pm, 14th Street between Fifth & Sixth Avenues

TILTED AXES: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars is an ensemble created and led by composer Patrick Grant.The project takes on aspects of spectacle informed by the tradition of urban street bands, avant-garde theater, and ancient music. It takes music out into the world and seeks transformative situations meant to change the conversation.

TILTED AXES performs their latest spectacle OUTFITS & ENSEMBLES as part of Art in Odd Places 2023: DRESS,on Sat., Oct. 14th, 12-3pm, 14th Street between Fifth & Sixth Avenues

OUTFITS & ENSEMBLES: The ensemble of mobile electric guitars and percussion perform original music with choreography. The ensemble uses their traditional black and turquoise concert dress to define the liminal threshold of their imaginary proscenium in public spaces. In this work, the members will be taking this concept many steps further with changes of costume and color-coded accessories. Using the language of clothes combined with new music and movement, the group will create a narrative performance that communicates ideas of inclusion, and even exclusion, using the language of clothes.

Art in Odd Places 2023: DRESS is curated by Gretchen Vitamvas with Curatorial Assistant: Tasha Douge. Curatorial Manager: Sarah Starpoli. — artinoddplaces.org

Tilted Axes: OUTFITS & ENSEMBLES — Electric Guitars: Gene Ardor, Angela Babin, Ryan Due, Patrick Grant (director), Liz Hogg, Kyle Miller, Dmitri Shapira —Accordion: Dean Olsher — Electric Bass: Jeremy Nesse, Kevin Pfeiffer — Percussion: John Ferrari, Alec Miniero, Bileshia Sproling — Choreography: Christopher Caines —Media Producer: Jocelyn Gonzales

Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars is a project of Peppergreen Media andis powered by Vox Amplification courtesy of KORG USA. We thank our performance partners The Indonesian Consulate of New York City, Strange Music Inc., and Alchemical Rehearsal Studios.

Taking New Music Out Into The World — The 12th season of Tilted Axes is made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, the ASCAP Plus+ Awards, the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Adjunct Development Fund, but mostly through the generous support of you the public through our fiscal sponsor Fractured Atlas.

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Tilted Axes: Signals Through the Flames — Sept. 10

burning blue fire flame on black background

French surrealist and theatre theorist Antonin Artaud, so wished for a searing realness upon the stage, that he called for the actors to strip themselves of all artifice and to present themselves as “…being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.” (The Theater and Its Double, 1931)

His writings had a tremendous influence on the creators of The Living Theatre, Julian Back and Judith Malina, when their vision was coming together in the 50s and 60s. A 1983 documentary about The Living is even titled, “Signals Through the Flames,” such is their association with the Artaud.

In their early days, the LT’s history is almost like a who’s-who of Village artists and aesthetic innovators from the theater, art, musical, and progressive political worlds. In 1959, with the help of a producer in collaboration with John Cage and Merce Cunningham they were able to open the theater on 14th St. and 6th Ave. which was the Theatre’s home for five years. Cunningham had his dance studio on the top floor. The Living occupied floors two and three.

Many years after that I met Judith when I was in my 20s and was lucky to work alongside her, creating music for theater, off and on for the group, for over twenty years. This included performances in the USA and extensively throughout Europe. The modus operandi abroad was that we would perform whatever current production we were touring plus we’d give workshops and create activist street theater with the local population. NYC was no exception. Performative political protests were a part of city life when the LT was based here. Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars might not have ever come into being had I not had this experience in my formation.

It is in that spirit, taking it to the streets, that we present our latest musical procession, as part of The Village Trip Festival opening on September 10th in Greenwich Village. For the event, we will premiere a new piece with that name: “Signals Through the Flames.”

This performance is dedicated to all of the politically active artists and troupes that The Village has given birth to over the years, but especially to The Living Theatre. Our aim is to bring positive attention to their work and legacy and to all of us who owe them a debt for initially breaking down The Fourth Wall.

To read more about The Living Theatre and its connection to The Village go to: https://www.livingtheatre.org/detailed-history by Thomas S. Walker. Some portions of this text were taken from that page.

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Tilted Axes on Ave B — photos by Bob Krasner

Tilted Axes: Tilt Quintet performs for Open Streets L.E.S. on Avenue B, NYC on July 23, 2022. This was probably their “hottest” show ever with a city-wide heat index of 105 F. It didn’t matter. It was a great show. Electric Guitars: Angela Babin, Howie Kenty, John Halo — Electric Bass: Jeremy Nesse — Percussion: Patrick Grant. Photos: Bob Krasner @bobkrasner @bobkrasnertoo

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STRINGS & THINGS: Howie Kenty — First Axe

STRiNGS & THiNGS Show: “On our series called “First Axe” we ask members of #TiltedAxes to tell us their electric guitar origin stories. This time we’re talking to Howie Kenty, who’s a faculty member at Kaufman Music Center, where he teaches music tech, composition, and theory. But his early guitar days were marked by the sounds of grunge, cassette recordings and questionable taste in stage-wear.”

https://www.stringsandthingsshow.com/