Patrick Grant

Patrick Grant (electric guitar) is a composer and performer living in New York City. His works are a synthesis of classical, popular, and world musical styles that have found place in concert halls, film, theater, dance, and visual media over three continents. Over the last three decades, his music has moved from post-punk and classically bent post-minimal styles, through Balinese-inspired gamelan and microtonality, to ambient, electronic soundscapes involving many layers of acoustic and electronically amplified instruments. Throughout its evolution, his music has consistently contained a "...a driving and rather harsh energy redolent of rock, as well as a clean sense of melodicism...intricate cross-rhythms rarely let up..." Known as a producer and co-producer of live musical events, he has presented many concerts of his own and other composers, including a 2013 Guinness World Record-breaking performance of 175 electronic keyboards in NYC. He is the creator of International Strange Music Day (August 24) and the pioneer of the electric guitar procession. http://tinyurl.com/n6leedd


Cristian Amigo

Cristian Amigo (electric guitar) is an American composer, guitarist, producer, and educator who explores the spaces between art (classical and jazz) music and American popular and roots musics.  His awards include fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, and Meet the Composer.  He has worked with hundreds of artists including Wadada Leo Smith, Elliott Sharp, Mary Rowell, Kathy Supove, Jason Hwang, Andrew Drury, Gustavo Aguilar, Du Yun, JACK Quartet, jill sigman/thinkdance, and Miguel Frasconi. Cristian is currently composer-in-residence at INTAR Theater in New York City.  


Angela Babin

Angela Babin (electric guitar) has been performing live since she was 13 years old in many different venues from Folk City and CBGBs to BAM and the Berlin Jazz Festival. Angela entered the downtown New York music scene playing with Off Beach and the Ordinaires while she was a teenager, and has played guitar, tres, and bass on recordings for many varied musical projects. Currently, Angela is gleefully playing guitar with the Gotham Roots Orchestra. Angela thanks her daughter for lending her a procession-worthy guitar. 


Alexander Baxter

Alexander Baxter (electric guitar) was born in Detroit, Michigan and has been playing electric guitar since age 12, when he bought his first Teisco del Rey from Chuck Holzman. Not succeeding as a teenage rock god, he put it aside to pursue a career in academic medicine and now teaches emergency radiology at Bellevue and NYU Hospitals. He returned to music with enthusiasm six years ago and now practices regularly. He has performed with Robert Fripp's Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists and is a member of the New York Guitar Circle.


Aileen Bunch



Aileen Bunch (electric guitar) is a music therapist and piano instructor from Collingswood, NJ. As a child, Aileen was offered organ lessons and her obsession with music began. Her father fed this obsession by bringing home flea market instruments, his hope being that she would one day lead an “all-girl band”. By high school, she had become proficient on numerous instruments including guitar, alto clarinet, organ, piano, synthesizers and recorder. Aileen completed her piano/music therapy studies at both Temple University and New York University, and was awarded her music therapy board certification in 1995. Aileen provides music therapy services, traditional piano lessons, and accompaniment throughout the Philadelphia area.


Evelyn Bunch

Evelyn Bunch (percussion) is a Collingswood, NJ based student and musician. She plays piano, keyboards, drums, and electric guitar. Evelyn helps rock the drum line in the award winning Collingswood High School Marching Band, and also drums for indoor percussion. Evelyn attends Camden County Technical High School where she is a sophomore in the pre-engineering program.


Ted Bunch



Ted Bunch (percussion) is a producer/partner for the Brooklyn, NY based Thirsty Records and lives in the Philadelphia/South New Jersey area. Ted is the vocalist and principle songwriter for the new Thirsty Records artist, “Ego Alien”, which has debut concerts 1/18/14 in Atlantic City, NJ and 1/24/14 in Philadelphia, PA and a new CD release January 2014. Ted plays multiple instruments, has a master’s degree in Music Therapy, is a Licensed Professional Counselor and currently directs a welfare to work program in Philadelphia. Ted is fortunate to have a wonderful and musically talented wife and daughter and a home filled with music.


Steve Carter



Steve Carter (Tilt Manager) is a film & theater actor and singer in NYC. You might find him singing on a subway platform someday.


Dan Cooper

Dan Cooper (electric bass) was born and raised in Manhattan, and educated at Columbia, NEC, and Princeton. The recipient of an Aaron Copland Fellowship to Tanglewood, he has received awards, commissions, residencies, and premieres from Albany Symphony, ASCAP, Cary Trust, Engine 27, Fontainebleau, Imani Winds, NARAS, NEA, North River Music, NYNME, NYYS, and Shakespeare & Company, among others. As a multi-instrumentalist, he has performed at venues including Royal Albert Hall, Sydney Opera House, Berlin Philharmonic, Town Hall, Bunkamura Orchard Hall, The Blue Note, CBGB, Joe’s Pub, and LPR. Cooper is a music professor at SUNY-FIT, and a co-director of Composers Concordance. http://www.dan-cooper.com


Glenn Cornett



Glenn Cornett (electric guitar) runs Spectrum, a performance venue/gallery on Manhattan’s Lower East Side that supports innovation and virtuosity in the arts. He is a composer/performer, playing guitar, keyboards, electronics, etc. “Day job”: Founder of two biotechnology companies – Pastorus (autism, other CNS disorders); Navitas (cardiovascular, metabolic diseases).  He has worked at McKinsey and Eli Lilly. Education: MD with Distinction in Research from the University of Michigan; PhD in neuroscience from UCLA, dissertation on human deep-brain responses to musical stimuli. He has a black belt in karate and has run nine marathons, including Istanbul in November 2013.


Nick Didkovsky

Nick Didkovsky (electric guitar) is a guitarist, composer, and music software programmer. He founded the rock band Doctor Nerve in 1983 http://www.doctornerve.org and is a member of the Fred Frith Guitar Quartet. He has composed for Bang On A Can All-Stars, Meridian Arts Ensemble, ETHEL, and others. His compositions and guitar work appear on over 50 records. His Black Sabbath Guitar Lessons on YouTube have been received with great enthusiasm by metal fans all over the world. His metal band Häßliche Luftmasken premiered in June 2011 http://www.tinyurl.com/maskenmetal. In 2013 Nick formed the metal band Vomit Fist with his son Leo. Vomit Fist is very likeable on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/VomitFist


Mark Fenkner

Mark Fenkner (electric guitar) has been an amateur musician since his teen years, alternating between guitar and synthesizers – and lately mandolin. He’s a student of Guitar Craft, performing in last year’s Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists tour in the Northeast, and is a member of the New York City Guitar Circle. Outside of music, his primary passion is in 'personal evolution' within the traditions of Sufism, Gurdjieff, and J.G. Bennett. His professional career is in cyber security, developing new defense technologies and managing a team of talented cyber-defenders. He resides with his wife and daughter in Southern New Jersey.


Scott "McSwevry" Forman



Scott "McSwervy" Forman (electric guitar) is a songwriter, trackmaker and producer based in the 212. He writes songs in all genres: pop, electronic, dance, house, R&B and country. He is a member of the Nashville Songwriters Association International, ASCAP and posts tracks regularly on Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/mcswervy.


Jocelyn Gonzales



Jocelyn Gonzales (percussion) is a freelance audio producer in New York City. Her cultural reporting and sound work has been featured on WNYC News, Soundcheck, Marketplace, Weekend America, Sound Money, Radiolab, Musicians Radio on XM Satelilite, Ear Studio, Minnesota Public Radio, sTRANGEmUSIC and Re:Sound. Gonzales was part of the team that created Studio 360, and she was a producer for programs on WNYC such as Dish with Ed Levine, Now Hear This! with John Flansburgh (of They Might Be Giants), and The Conversation with Danyel Smith. http://www.jocelyngonzales.net


Matt Grossman



Matt Grossman (electric guitar) is a Manhattan based guitarist and composer. He works as a bandleader and a sideman, appearing alongside internationally acclaimed artists, ranging from rock stars to rappers to poets, including Ian lloyd of Stories, and John Ford of the Strawbs, many more. He is also known as a music director, with productions receiving rave reviews. As a bandleader he performs his own compositions as well as standards and traditional music. He has taught music to adults and children for over 15 years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYIncZyn-Cc


Johnny Halo

Johnny Halo (electric guitar) was born in Brooklyn in the mid-eighties. He did his undergraduate work in Music Theory at The Macaulay Honors College @ Hunter College and his graduate work in Composition of Modern & Contemporary Classical Music at The Aaron Copeland School of Music @ Queens College. A multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, he's currently performing in NYC as a member of three groups: Downtown Equipment, Rinse, & Bob of The Shirts. Halo is music and mathematics teacher at Brooklyn's Neighborhood Improvement Association (NIA) in South Brooklyn. 


Randolph A. Hudson III

Randolph A. Hudson III (electric guitar) is a composer, electric guitarist/Ebowist, and technologist born 1957 in Brooklyn NY. In the late 70's/Late 80’s an active member of Downtown NYC scene with John Zorn, Kramer, Ann Magnuson, Ralph Carney, Daved Hild, Coby Batty, many others. Co-written, recorded, performed with members of Gong, The Waitresses, The Fugs, Psychedelic Furs, Captain Howdy. Recording, touring member of Bongwater with Magnuson/Kramer. Co-Founded “Bowing” with Martha Mooke. Co-Founded EBQ: The Electronic Bow Quartet. Currently performs with Klyph Black, Joe Delia, and The Complete Unknowns. In 2010, founded the 2D/3D Blu-Ray department of DuArt Film and Video. http://www.rah3.com


Howie Kenty



Howie Kenty (electric guitar) occasionally known by his musical alter-ego, Hwarg, is a New York-based composer whose music is stylistically diverse, encompassing ideas from contemporary classical, electronic, rock, sound art, and everything in between, sometimes using visual and theatrical elements. Throughout all of his creations runs the idea that the experience of a piece is more than just listening to the music; he strives for a wholeness of vision and an awareness of environment that attempts to fully draw the audience into his works. Listen/watch at: hwarg.com - soundcloud.com/hwarg - youtube.com/hwargbot


Ann Klein



Ann Klein (electric guitar) has: toured in Europe for years and recently completed a two week residency in St. Barthes.  She’s been invited to play several house concerts in the Tri-State area, Texas, and CA and has received lots of positive press.  She’s composed music for documentaries for French television. As an instrumentalist, credits include: Kate Pierson, Joan Osborne, Ani DiFranco, PM Dawn, Will Lee, Natalie Imbruglia and the American Composers Orchestra. She’s done Broadway:  “Grease”, “9 to 5”, “Baby It’s You”, “Everyday Rapture” and “Kinky Boots” and was a MacDowell Colony grant recipient. She is most proud of her ability to wah-wah her way out of any solo, anytime. 


Paul de Konkoly Thege



Paul de Konkoly Thege (electric guitar) is 21 years old and a senior at Williams College in Williamstown, MA. He's been playing guitar for 3+ years now and has formally studied jazz and classical styles for about a year each. He currently sings and play bass in the Williamstown-based band Gentlemen Art Thieves. This year he will complete the Environmental Geosciences major as well as an oceanography/geochemistry thesis. He's looking forward to moving back to 10th Street in Manhattan next year, getting reacquainted with the city and devoting some time to composing.


Daniel Reyes Llinás

Daniel Reyes Llinás (electric guitar) began his career at the age of 10 teaching himself how to play the guitar. He attended the Classical Guitar Program at Andes University in Bogota, Colombia. He was in the ‘Youngest Performer Series” at Luis Angel Arango Music Hall 2001. Guitar with Carlos Rocca Lynn, Jaime Arias Obregon, Carlos Castilla, Tony Geballe, Carlos Alomar, Leo Brouwer, Eduardo Fernandez. “Bang on a Can” 2010, Guitar Craft with Robert Fripp. Composition with Fernando Otero. Original score for feature film "Carmen G." His release ”Molino” is available on iTunes. “En Remolinos,” his next record, will be released in 2014. www.soundcloud.com/danielreyesllinas


Joshua Lopes



Joshua Lopes (electric guitar) plays guitar for the Dither Electric Guitar Quartet, where they have played their brand of raucous new music all over the Eastern seaboard and as far away as Hong Kong and Amsterdam. He also plays in Nick Didkovsky's metal band, Häßliche Luftmasken. He has played with Elliot Sharp, Object Collection, Antisocial Music Consortium, Naked Eye Ensemble, Newspeak, as well as a handful of garage bands playing twisted and evil twelve-tone fusion that should probably be ignored. He is also the instrumental music teacher at Ivy Hill Elementary School in Newark, NJ.


John Lovaas



John Lovaas (electric guitar) John's interest in guitar began in 1978; since then, playing guitar has always been a regular activity.  A real attempt at guitar practice began in 2007, after his first Guitar Craft course. He has participated in Guitar Craft and Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists projects in the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, and Italy.


Anthony Mullin



Anthony Mullin (electric guitar) hails from Leeds, in the North of England. After moving to New York to complete his doctorate, he began playing with various acts becoming known for his distinctive blues/shred based improvisational style. He has played guitar for 13 years, and has jammed with the likes of Brad Whitford (Aerosmith), Tony Bruno (Rihanna/Enrique Iglesias/Cher), Mark Bosch (Ian Hunter), and Acey Slade (Joan Jett & The Blackhearts). Currently, he is lead guitarist for The Blackfires, a rock act who have delivered noteworthy performances at Gramercy Theatre, Mercury Lounge, and Webster Hall in their short-tenure on the NYC scene.


Jeremy Nesse



Jeremy Nesse (Chapman Stick) is a consummate musician who embodies a stew of diverse genres that not only gets your heart thumping but gets your feet stomping. While incorporating a variety of basses into his repertoire, he has also adopted the Chapman Stick, a 12-string touchstyle melodic bass. He has recorded and shared the stage with numerous bands such as LA-based Moving Picture Show, Humble Lion, punk rapper extraordinaire Hyro Da Hyro, and numerous other eclectic acts.


Cesare Papetti

Cesare Papetti (drums) is a percussionist working in and around New York City.  Influenced by all sounds resonating from New York’s vibrancy, he pursues a multitude of different performing opportunities from operas, orchestras and chamber groups to rock bands and performance art theater.  Recently, Cesare co-produced a concert of Art Rock Music at the Gershwin Hotel.  The program included a world premiere of a drum set and piano duet by Gene Pritsker, and music by Dana Richardson and Erbium all written for a rock ensemble instrumentation.  Currently, Cesare is also studying Turkish split hand dumbek technique and playing with the funk/rock band Barbaric Yawp. http://www.cesarepapetti.com


Reinaldo Perez



Reinaldo Perez (electric guitar) is a native NYer with an active interest in guitar for over 30 years. He studied for a number of years in Guitar Craft starting in 1986 and is starting a year-long course of study in Ableton Live, Max/MSP/Jitter/Arduino and multi-channel production at Harvestworks.


Jorge Rivera



Jorge Rivera (electric guitar) is a lifetime resident of New York City, semi-professional senior rock musician, out-of-the-box thinker, and cultural gourmand. He's had two early garage bands, Bethesda Fountain Band and Wildfang, as well as The Band with 1001 Names. He's currently embarking on a solo musical career as singer-songwriter, guitarist, and digital/electronic producer.


Anthony Rothkin



Andrew Rothkin (standard-bearer) is an actor, playwright, screenwriter, producer and director, and serves as Artistic Director of White Rabbit Productions.  Some playwriting/producing highlights include Bubby’s Shadow (Winner, Outstanding Production of a New Drama Play, Midtown International Theatre Festival Award, 2008), Meredith’s Ring, (Winner, Outstanding Production of a One-Act Play, The Planet Connections Theatre Festivity Award, 2009), and Hamlet Bound & Unbound (Winner, Outstanding New Script for a Short Subject, Midtown International Theatre Festival Award, 2012). He has several pieces in development, but is always on the lookout for new projects and collaborations.  Please visit www.AndrewRothkin.com


Sean Satin



Sean Satin (electric guitar) performs and teaches extensively in the New York/New Jersey area. He is currently on faculty at Turtle Bay Music School, Brooklyn College and the Bergen Academy Of Music. Mr Satin holds a BM in classical guitar performance from the Manhattan School Of Music and an MA from Teachers College, Columbia University.


Isaac Scranton



Isaac Scranton (standard-bearer) is an OBIE-Award winning veteran of the Living Theatre, a featured performer at the Met Opera, and was recently nominated for "Best Director" in the Midtown International Theatre Festival. He's greatly honored to be a standard-bearer for this amazing event! www.isaacscranton.com


Cheryl Perron Shepard



Cheryl Perron Shepherd (electric guitar) has always loved the arts and has explored her creativity through many venues. Her love of music was rekindled recently when she played in a concert which had been arranged to honor a friend who had passed away. Her hope is to reconnect with her creative self in all aspects of her life.

Larry Simon

Larry Simon (electric guitar), is a guitarist and composer from Brooklyn, NY has recorded and performed with many of today’s leading composers, jazz and blues artists including John Zorn, LaMonte Young, Rhys Chatham, David Sanborn, Big Jay McNeely, Lester Bowie, Rosco Gordon, George Coleman, Julius Hemphill, The Skatellites, David Amram, Ed Sanders, Leon Thomas, Eric Mingus and many others.  As a composer he has written extensively for dance, film, and theatre. Simon also founded "Jazzmouth, The Seacoast poetry and Jazz Festival" of which he is the Artistic director and producer. Simon’s most recent recording is “The Langston Hughes Project.”


Jeremy D. Slater



Jeremy D. Slater (electric guitar) Slater's sound work consists of field recordings as a base to create processed drones with guitar, objects, ambient noise, and environmental sound. He performs as (  ) and is a member of ROTC (Rubaiyats of the Cicadas), Frogwell, and tū. Performances include live performed video that is ambient and reactive. Video work includes single and multiple channel videos for screening and installations with sound and ephemeral sculpture. He has exhibited and performed in the United States, Canada, England, Germany, South Korea, and Japan. www.jeremyslater.net


Harry Smolowitz



Harry Smolowitz (slaperoo) Previously a professional trombonist in the New York parade circuit by day and a jazz musician by night, Smolowitz now manages a fledgling Shakespearian rock group, Bard Rock. They will be producing a CD in January and its music will be featured in an upcoming production of A Midnight Summer’s Dream. For Tilted Axes he will be performing on the slaperoo, an experimental instrument comprised of a vibrating steel sheet laid over a pick-up, a bridge instrument between bass and percussion from which unique sounds are born. 


Dylan Sparrow



Dylan Sparrow (electric guitar) is a New York City-based composer and musician. He has fronted the band Giggle the Ozone for over a decade, and released albums on a variety of DIY labels and other formats. His music contains elements of punk rock, video game music, surf, and new wave, and is fueled by a commitment to poetic social critique. In addition to being a musician, Dylan is a trained Illustrator and writer. He is currently working on a graphic novel about the highs and lows of being a musician in New York.


Leslie Stevens



Leslie Stevens (electric guitar) picked up the guitar and played 15 years ago. She's been part of the Robert Fripp Guitar Craft work since 1998, and has performed most recently to the sold-out Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists show at St Mark's NYC (part of the East Coast tour) with 60 other guitarists. She is part of the New York Guitar Circle, formerly with the New Jersey Guitar Circle. She plays acoustic guitar in New Standard Tuning (NST).


Mark Stewart

Mark Stewart (electric guitar) is a New York City-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, singer and instrument designer. He has been a member of the Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, Steve Reich and Musicians, Zeena Parkins' Gangster Band, and Arnold Dreyblatt's Orchestra of Excited Strings, and is a founding member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars band and The Jerry Wortman Nonette. Also, he has worked with Paul Simon, Anthony Braxton, Bob Dylan, Cecil Taylor, Meredith Monk, Phillip Glass, Bruce Springsteen, Edie Brickell, Don Byron, Paul McCartney, Marc Ribot, and in the duo Polygraph Lounge with Rob Schwimmer, with whom he also contributed to Simon & Garfunkel's "Old Friends" reunion concert tour. Stewart lives in Brooklyn, New York and is an avid bicyclist.

Lester St. Louis



Lester St. Louis (slaperoo) is a New York born and based cellist and composer. Lester began his musical experience at 13, playing cello with his high school orchestra. Lester has studied at Long Island University under the direction of Sam Newsome, Carlo DeRosa, and JC Sanford among others. He has studied Cello with New York based Cellist/Composer/Electronic musician Greg Heffernan [also known as Cosmo D]. Lester currently plays in musical idioms as Classical, New Music, Jazz and Improvised music primarily with artist such as Travis Reuter, Dre Hocevar, Michael Eaton, Chris Chang, Bram De Looze, and Stephanos Chytiris among others. 


Michelle Zulli



Michelle Zulli (electric guitar) is a singer and guitarist born and raised in New York City. She has a deep affection for all forms of music organic to NYC, especially the exciting sounds coming from late-’70s/early-’80s Downtown. Michelle became involved with Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls in 2012. In February 2013, at a session of Ladies Rock Camp, she met two women with whom she would form The Bleed. They are inspired by the myriad and kindred spirits of punk, art, rock, noise, and rebellion. The Bleed are looking forward to recording their first EP in January 2014.


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