Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars is a group of guitarists and percussionists lead by composer/performer Patrick Grant. They perform original music untethered via mini-amps strapped over their shoulders. Since their inception at the first annual Make Music Winter in NYC 10 years ago, they have created and performed numerous new music events in the USA, Europe, and Brazil.

Our 2021-2022 Season includes new music from core members Howie Kenty, Elisa Corona Aguilar, jc (Jon Clancy), and Patrick Grant. The movement direction is by Christopher Caines.

Tilted Axes can perform anywhere there are people, excelling in untraditional venues. Its roster of musicians can change from performance to performance, city to city. The musicians learn a common repertoire created by diverse composers and rehearse it in workshops. Its performances are free to the public and are supported through institutional and/or private donations. We believe that music is essential, and not merely ornamental, to our daily life.

Tilted Axes takes on aspects of spectacle informed by municipal band tradition, avant-garde theater, and world music. It takes music out into the world and seeks transformative situations meant to change community conversation. It is an apolitical organization, but it does support science, arts programs, and renewable energy whenever possible. Tilted Axes works best when it is part of something bigger than itself i.e. festivals, exhibitions, community initiatives, astronomical events. It's conceptual and it rocks!

Tilted Axes is back! Our first live performance since the pandemic was a procession marking the first day of fall with Make Music Autumn in Lower Manhattan.. Since then we have performed at the HONK! Festival and The Village Halloween Parade. Smaller units of quintets and octets have made neighborhood appearances at the West Harlem Arts Walk and Vanderbilt Open Streets in Brooklyn.

Looking forward: The group will celebrate its 10th anniversary with two classic Lower Manhattan processions in December  and will mark the winter solstice with a participatory performance in NYC's Herald Square. We want you to be a part of these.

In the New Year we look forward to the re-formation of Tilted Axes Detroit with an invitation to create new work from the Ann Arbor Film Festival. The group plans on expanding into other cities as invitations are coming in and the Covid-19 restrictions continue to drop. We already have our sights on going abroad again if possible. People want us to tilt in their town!

Your contributions to Tilted Axes will help pay for the necessities that enable us to make music that is free for all to enjoy. Your donation helps to defray costs such as:

Honoraria (paying the artists and performers)