Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars
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Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars is ready to create new music and movement-based performance throughout the urban landscape and into unexpected venues. Please be a part of our team!
New York City, NY, US
- $2,750 raised of $2,500 goal
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Fiscally Sponsored by Fractured Atlas
Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars is back. For 2019, the group plans on building upon their groundbreaking work by sharpening the element of movement in their performance. To do this, they will be working with choreographers, martial artists, and other movement practitioners to hone their skills and find more ways to bring in elements of theater and narrative through motion. With $2500, your tax-deductible support will enable Tilted Axes to secure 6 months of bi-weekly rehearsals working with guest artists from the world of movement. Your help also allows for periodic open rehearsals and for the creation and performance of new events in May, June, and July of next year.
Tilted Axes was created by composer/performer Patrick Grant. His works are a synthesis of classical, popular, and world music styles that have found place internationally in concert halls, film, theater, dance, and visual media. His music moves between post-rock and classically-bent post-minimal styles, through Balinese-inspired gamelan and microtonality, to ambient, electronic soundscapes that involve many layers of electro-acoustic instruments. He’s the creator of International Strange Music Day (August 24) and is the inventor of the electric guitar procession.
In the 90s he worked on the production team for composer John Cage and began producing his first recordings at the studios of Philip Glass. He spearheaded the compositional element of an international project for the Millennium that had him working with Billy Joel and Quincy Jones. Interest in world music brought him to Bali three times to study the gamelan which manifested itself in his work through the use of alternative tunings, ensembles with multiple keyboards, and in his work with Robert Fripp (King Crimson, Brian Eno, David Bowie) & The Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists.
Tilted Axes' 2019 rehearsals will take place at Alchemical Studios. The cost of a four-hour rehearsal starts at $100.00. In 2019 we will begin with two rehearsals a month. Every other rehearsal we will have a guest artist to help us incorporate movement into our performance. They will be paid $75.00 a session. Cartage (car services) to and from rehearsal with amplifiers, batteries, and other accessories is approx. $30.00 a trip including gratuity. This puts our monthly rehearsal budget at $395.00. Our goal is to sustain six months of rehearsal space with guest artists.
Visiting guest artists will include:
Rachel Cohen - choreographer. Rachel's interest in cross-disciplinary performance began at Harvard University under mentor Claire Mallardi. After moving to NYC she continued studying multiple dance forms, mask and clown, acting, Action Theater, and martial arts.
Tilted Axes was created by composer/performer Patrick Grant. His works are a synthesis of classical, popular, and world music styles that have found place internationally in concert halls, film, theater, dance, and visual media. His music moves between post-rock and classically-bent post-minimal styles, through Balinese-inspired gamelan and microtonality, to ambient, electronic soundscapes that involve many layers of electro-acoustic instruments. He’s the creator of International Strange Music Day (August 24) and is the inventor of the electric guitar procession.
In the 90s he worked on the production team for composer John Cage and began producing his first recordings at the studios of Philip Glass. He spearheaded the compositional element of an international project for the Millennium that had him working with Billy Joel and Quincy Jones. Interest in world music brought him to Bali three times to study the gamelan which manifested itself in his work through the use of alternative tunings, ensembles with multiple keyboards, and in his work with Robert Fripp (King Crimson, Brian Eno, David Bowie) & The Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists.
Tilted Axes' 2019 rehearsals will take place at Alchemical Studios. The cost of a four-hour rehearsal starts at $100.00. In 2019 we will begin with two rehearsals a month. Every other rehearsal we will have a guest artist to help us incorporate movement into our performance. They will be paid $75.00 a session. Cartage (car services) to and from rehearsal with amplifiers, batteries, and other accessories is approx. $30.00 a trip including gratuity. This puts our monthly rehearsal budget at $395.00. Our goal is to sustain six months of rehearsal space with guest artists.
Visiting guest artists will include:
Rachel Cohen - choreographer. Rachel's interest in cross-disciplinary performance began at Harvard University under mentor Claire Mallardi. After moving to NYC she continued studying multiple dance forms, mask and clown, acting, Action Theater, and martial arts.
She performed in numerous festivals and shared programs and choreographed for Olek, Chelsea Knight, Christine Jowers/Moving Arts Projects, and Peculiar Works, and performed in projects of Theodora Skipitares, Christopher Caines, Julie Atlas Muz, Ariane Anthony, Le Min Tam, Shua Group, Mary Anthony, Rika Burnham, Sally Silvers, and Fiona Templeton.
In 2003 she founded movement-theater company Racoco Productions, which fuses raw materials with absurdist visuals, quixotic choreography, and original music, in collaboration with with visual artists and composers.
Her "If The Shoe Fits," created with visual artist Olek and composer Chris Becker, was named one of The NY Times' top NYC dance performances of 2005. Rachel has been artist in residence at Galapagos Art Space and Cave in Brooklyn, and has been awarded grants from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation US Arts International, Meet the Composer/Creative Connections and Live Music for Dance/American Music Center, NYFA, the Field Dance Fund, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Fund, and NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.
She is a certified teacher of Action Theater improvisation. Her current project, “Tilt,” a collaboration with composer Lynn Wright, set designer Bill Kennedy, and tap dancer Heather Cornell, will premiere at Abrons Arts Center in March 2019.
David Tamura - Mixed Martial Arts & Personal Development. David was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He has over 45yrs of experience in numerous martial art systems. Judo (pre-school age), Kendo, WinChunDo (James deMiles), MuayThai (KruVut Vamnark,Suraisute Surachai), Southern Fists (Tiger/Eagle/Mantis/ChinNa). Wushu (Bo Sim Mak), Greco-Roman Wrestling, JunFan KungFu, JKD/Kali, Catchwrestling, Pancrase, Shooto, FrenchSavate, Russian Sambo.
Tamura began to teach he acquired numerous concepts from different instructors, who he worked out with. He noticed that all systems are combinatorial and link with each other. He began to see the relationship of Infinite Movement within all systems combined, sort of like the ultimate programming system.
Tamura is one of the few instructors who places emphasis on creativity, innovation, and meditation, the search for truth - every day - not bound by class or tradition.
To test his system he tried his new creation with other martial artists and won every time this included grappling, he then went to underground fights and again won consecutively.
Tamura is also an accomplished and professional musician, applying his concepts in martial arts to music and personal development. He plays the tenor/soprano saxophones (Dave Burrell/JazzFakers/Kidd Jordan/Sabir Mateen/Marc Edwards Slipstream TimeTravel), piano/synths, and electric guitar (VonLMO’s Red Resistor).
Thank you so much for your time and consideration! To find out more about Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars' history, to hear the music, and to see them in action, please go to: http://tiltedaxes.com/tiltedaxes.html.
Rewards
Co-producer credit
Donate $10.00 or more
Amount is fully tax-deductible.
Anybody making a donation of $10 or more will be eligible have their name listed on our web page, in the social media, and on all of our promotional material as a co-producer of our work in 2019. This is the easiest way to show your support and let everybody know that you're a part of our team.
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Tilted Axes CD
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Amount over $10.00 is tax-deductible.
Tilted Axes eponymous debut album on CD. Read the reviews here: http://tiltedaxes.com/tiltedaxes.html
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Tilted Axes T-Shirt (Cold Moon Consort)
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Amount over $20.00 is tax-deductible.
Tilted Axes is well known for its use of iconic graphics and visual designs. For 2019, we'll be using the "Cold Moon Consort" design created by Patrick Grant as seen in this campaign. Donations of $50.00 or more are eligible for a black (of course) Tilted Axes T-Shirt in either M, L, or XL.
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