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Tilted Axes Returns to TNC with Necessary Music

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Crystal Field, Executive Director, presents

TILTED AXES: NECESSARY MUSIC ONLY
movements for mobile electric guitars

September 17 through October 4, 2026
Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue, New York City

NEW YORK, NY — Theater for the New City presents the return of Tilted Axes with Necessary Music Only, an original work of music theater created by composer Patrick Grant that combines mobile electric guitars, live percussion, choreography, lighting, and visual media into a singular theatrical experience. Performances run Thursday, September 17 through Sunday, October 4, 2026.

Returning to Theater for the New City following last season’s production, Tilted Axes: Necessary Music Only transforms the stage into a constantly evolving landscape of sound and movement. Musicians perform while walking through choreographed formations, creating shifting musical textures that blur the boundaries between concert, dance, and theater.

Performance Schedule

Thursdays, September 17, 24 & October 1, 8 pm
Fridays, September 18, 25 & October 2, 8 pm
Saturdays, September 19, 26 & October 3, 8 pm
Sundays, September 20, 27 & October 4, 3 pm

Tickets: $20 General Admission, $15 Students & Seniors
Tickets & Information: www.theaterforthenewcity.net • (212) 254-1109

Produced by: Peppergreen Media
Music by: Patrick Grant and Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars composers
Choreography & lighting by: Christopher Caines
Performed by: Gene Ardor, Lori Bingel, John Ferrari, Grace Goss, Patrick Grant, John Halo, Igor Icaza, Jim Lee, Jeremy Nesse, James Schoen, and Dmitri Shapira
Photo & video credits: Jocelyn Gonzales and Jack Wang

More information: http://www.tiltedaxes.com • @tiltedaxes • #tiltedaxes

Created by composer and artistic director Patrick Grant, Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars is an ensemble of electric guitarists and percussionists that transforms streets, parks, galleries, museums, and theaters into immersive musical environments. Performing untethered with battery-powered amplifiers, the musicians invite audiences into an experience where music is living, physical, and shared. Moving continuously through the performance space, they create an environment that is at once ritual, procession, and music theater.

Now in its sixteenth season, Tilted Axes continues to bring contemporary music into public life through movement, community, and shared experience.

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Join Tilted Axes’ Team for Fall 2025!

photo: Bob Krasner @bobkrasner @bobkrasnertoo

LINK: https://tinyurl.com/Tilted2025

Dear friends, please consider being a part of our 15th season team!

Your support will go toward our fall season of premieres, recorded releases, and FREE performances.

Join our team this season at the link above and be a part of the new music.

Thank you! — #TiltedAxes

NEWS: http://www.tiltedxes.com

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Tilted Axes Performs at Strawberry Fields NYC

#tiltedaxes #strawberryfields #newyork Strawberry Tilts Forever — @tiltedaxes: Strawberry Solstice, @makemusicny, June 21, 2024, @makemusicday #tiltedaxes Make Music New York 2024 Strawberry Fields Forever — Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars We would like to thank the @puffinculturalforum for making this performance possible. @nyscouncilonthearts #strawberryfields#newyork#nyc#johnlennon#beatles#thebeatles#electricguitar#music#rock#performance#classic#classical#centralpark

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Tilted Axes: Strawberry Solstice — June 21, Make Music New York

Tilted Axes: Strawberry Solstice

music for mobile electric guitars

June 21st, 12 noon to 2pm — Richard Tucker Park, NYC

MAKE MUSIC NEW YORK 2024 — FREE PERFORMANCE!

It’s a musical procession for the first day of summer and the full strawberry moon.

We begin and end at Richard Tucker Park, W 66th Street and Broadway. The event is a foray into the neighborhood with stops at places of interest.

Tilted Axes perform exciting original compositions and a couple of unique arrangements of seasonal tunes, sonic structures comprised of burbling polyrhythms, and contemplative grooves for deep listeners. They will premiere a new piece, “Strawberry Solstice” and well as some surprises, it’s a tilted tradition.

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 traditions 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.

Electric Guitars: Gene Ardor, Jessica Dankowitz, Patrick Grant (director), John Halo, Liz Hogg, Howie Kenty, Diego Retana, Dmitri Shapira — Keytar: Dean Olsher — Electric Bass: Jeremy Nesse, Kevin Pfeiffer, Sarah Metivier Schadt — Percussion: Vince Caiafa, Roxan Jurkevich — Choreography: Christopher Caines — Production Support: Alex Lahoski, Keith Steimel, Leslie Stevens — Media Producer: Jocelyn Gonzales

Tilted Axes is a project of Peppergreen Media andis powered by Vox Amplification courtesy of KORG USA. We thank our performance partners Make Music New York, Strange Music Inc., Astor Place Hair Stylists, Sunlight Studios, and PianoPiano NYC.

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 NY State Legislature, the ASCAP Plus+ Awards, and NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

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

We’d like to thank The Puffin Foundation for their support of this project.

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Tilted Axes To Perform at the Lower East Side Festival of the Arts at TNC on 5/26

TILTED AXES:

music for mobile electric guitars

Lower East Side Festival of the Arts 2024

presented by Theater for the New City

155 1st Avenue, New York City 10003

http://www.theaterforthenewcity.net

Sunday, May 26 at 6:00 pm in the Johnson Theater

FREE!   FREE!   FREE!   FREE!   FREE!

TILTED AXES: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars is an ensemble created in 2011 and led by composer Patrick Grant.Now in its 12th season, the project takes on aspects of spectacle informed by the traditions 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.

Electric Guitars: Gene Ardor (stage manager), Jessica Dankowitz, Patrick Grant (director), Howie Kenty — Keytar: Dean Olsher — Electric Bass: Jeremy Nesse, Kevin Pfeiffer — Percussion: John Ferrari, Roxan Jurkevich— Choreography: Christopher Caines — Media Producer: Jocelyn Gonzales — Photo: Bob Krasner @bobkrasner @bobkrasnertoo

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 Theater for the New City, Make Music New York, Strange Music Inc., and Funkadelic 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 NY State Legislature, the ASCAP Plus+ Awards, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, but mostly through the generous support of you the public through our fiscal sponsor Fractured Atlas.

Thank you Crystal Field and all the good people at Theater for the New City!

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