Tilted Axes Detroit: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars is back with new music for the 2019 Concert of Colors Festival! 

Combining the energy of rock, the creative discipline of theater, and a driving, experimental spirit, Tilted Axes is both a processional event, and an ensemble of mobile electric guitarists created by composer/performer Patrick Grant.

Tilted Axes’ participation in the 2019 Concert of Colors festival begins with a musical procession called “PROMENADE” at the Detroit Institute of Arts on July 12, 2019. The following day, July 13, Tilted Axes presents a new work entitled, “MOONWALK” at the Michigan Science Center. The performance at Mi-Sci commemorates the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, the first crewed space mission to land on the moon.

The festival and the two museums provide excellent opportunities for the group to offer transformative performances that are free of charge to the Detroit community. But Tilted Axes is entirely self-funded and relies on your generous support to pay for its musicians, rehearsal space, and other administrative costs. Please consider joining our team and contribute to  Detroit’s musical history!

Meet the performers and producers of Tilted Axes Detroit: Concert of Colors HERE.

This past spring, to celebrate the full moon equinox, Tilted Axes played a trio of performances at Third Man Records Cass Corridor, The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, and the 10th Annual Marche du Nain Rouge. Tilted Axes’ new compositions and Detroit appearances express the spirit of exploration that inspire the ensemble’s creative and collaborative pursuits.

Tilted Axes Detroit’s expenses for this event are $4500, and your tax-deductible donation helps Tilted Axes Detroit’s18-plus members continue presenting free public performances. This includes rental of rehearsal space, supplies, transportation and production costs, and most importantly, honorariums for the musicians in return for their time and talent.

The costs we aim to defray with your support are:

All other costs (composers fee, studio costs, etc.) are assumed by the production company Peppergreen Media and its producer Patrick Grant and are not reflected in this campaign.

Your support not only ensures that Tilted Axes Detroit will be able to offer one-of-a-kind performance experiences to the general public, but you’ll also help us support our mission of science awareness and our common goal of renewable energy. 

PLEASE consider becoming a part of the Tilted Axes Detroit team. We're offering a number of incentive items featuring our music and artwork. Please check them out!

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 us in action, please go to: 

http://tiltedaxes.com/tiltedaxes.html.

Meet the performers and participants of Tilted Axes Detroit
http://www.tiltedaxes.com/TAD_newagain_artists.html

Listen to our music: Our album page is here.

There are Detroit-inspired tracks on our eponymous album like “Rivera Court”, “Techno Tilt”, “Beaubien Blues”, and “Corridor 84 + Krimson Coda”. The opening track, “Shapes 1”, was written for the 2015 Concert of Colors and Tilted Axes Detroit premiered the piece live on the Wolverine Stage that year. 

Tilted Axes was created by composer/performer and Detroit native 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.

Tilted Axes Mission Statement 2019
http://tiltedaxes.com/Tilted_Axes_Mission_2019.pdf

Tilted Axes Promo Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzZvTS0o12E