If you are in New York City and near the East Village today, Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars will be giving a free performance. We’ll be doing a pop-up tilt beginning at 2:00 PM in Astor Place Plaza, then processing to Tompkins Square Park.
If you're in town, we would love to see you there. And if you can’t attend, please feel free to spread the word!
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TODAY, NOVEMBER 1 — #TiltedAxes pop-up tilt in the East Village at 2pm! Astor Place to Tompkins Square Park!
Thank you so much for supporting our End-of-Season Fundraiser. Because of you we had a fantastic Season Finale in the Lincoln Center area and in Strawberry Fields in Central Park. We also were able to premier a new piece, Strawberry Solstice, that is dedicated to our friend and former tilter Sean Satin R.I.P.
Keep an eye out on our social media. We have plenty of pictures and videos from the event that we'll be posting a little at a time over the upcoming weeks. Again, this concerts are FREE to the public and you're a HUGE part in making that happen.
We are mentioned in the last couple paragraphs of this great interview with one of our members, Dean, but we were also interviewed and covered by The New Yorker. We will be a feature in the Talk of the Town section about a month from now. We'll post that in our social media for sure when it comes out.
Now, we're developing new work during the summer for our lucky Season 13 up ahead.
Tilted Axes performances are always free to the public because of support from team members like you.
12th seasons strong, Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars is a orchestra of guitarists and percussionists created by composer/performer Patrick Grant. We perform untethered and in motion via mini-amps strapped over their shoulders, cutting musical pathways through the urban landscape, turning neighborhoods into their own sonic narratives.
Tilted Axes brings music & movement into communities with pop-up performances. Their spectacles are sonic structures comprised of polyrhythmic patterns, post-rock riffing, and contemplative drones. They will move about the neighborhood as a procession with stops to perform on-site in different choreographic formations.
Tilted Axes can perform anywhere there are people, excelling in untraditional venues. Our roster of musicians can change from performance to performance, city to city. Musicians learn a common repertoire created by diverse composers and rehearse it in workshops. Our 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. The project 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!
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)
Professional Fees (recording engineers, accountants) Administrative costs (advertising, marketing, staff, web site, data storage) Remote Recording Workshops (offered regularly online for free to small groups)
Become a member of our team! By doing so you will be thanked in all of our promotional material for the 2023-2024 season wherever possible. Please join us!
The classic! Tilted pin-buttons based on a classic cookie design. Each reward includes three (3) buttons. Shipping included. Sorry, only available in the continental USA.
Tilted Axes: Tilted Cookie T-Shirt
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Amount over $25.00 is tax-deductible.
Tilted Cookie T-Shirt.jpeg44.88 KB Tilted Axes T-shirt with Tilted Cookie graphic on black. Available in sizes S, M, L, 1X, 2X, 3X. Team members choosing this reward will be contacted after the campaign has completed for size and shipping information. Shipping included. Sorry, only available in the continental USA.
Tilted Axes T-shirt with Broken Circle Logo graphic on black. Available in sizes S, M, L, 1X, 2X, 3X. Team members choosing this reward will be contacted after the campaign has completed for size and shipping information. Shipping included. Sorry, only available in the continental USA.
Released in the 1960s, these teardrop-shaped guitars were loved by many musicians. Its unique look continues to captivate the hearts of its fans. VOX has released a mini-sized version of this guitar with this characteristic shape.
Classic VOX Teardrop guitar shape
476mm scale Maple neck with Purpleheart fingerboard
Single-coil pickups that offer the classic VOX tone
Special ratio tuning mechanisms give a “full scale” feel for easy, precise playing
Enjoy the same tuning and feel as a full-size guitar
Combined with an amPlug or VGH, this is the ideal travel guitar
