TILTED AXES: SUMMER NYC 2019
Music for Mobile Electric Guitars
NYC performers and participants
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Patrick Grant (electric guitar) is a composer living and working 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 internationally. His music moves from post-rock 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. He is the creator of International Strange Music Day (August 24) and is the inventor of the electric guitar procession.
photo credit: Nels Cline
Gene Ardor (electric guitar) is an actor, musician and craftsmen. He holds a Theater Arts degree from Stony Brook and is a long time member of The Living Theatre. Gene has been obsessed with the amplified electric guitar since 1974. Currently he is developing a set of visual reference tools relating music theory to the fretboard. Gene also mods his guitars, amps and pedal electronics. His plan is to build dream guitar from scratch.
Angela Babin (electric guitar) has been performing live since she was 13 years old in crazy diverse venues from Folk City and CBGBs to BAM, as well as festival gigs across the USA, Canada and Europe. Angela entered the downtown New York music scene playing with Off Beach and the Ordinaires while she was a teenager, and has played guitar, bass, ukulele, and tres, on recordings for several musical projects and a motley assortment of bands. Currently, Angela is working on her Telephone Diary compositions, playing guitar with a couple of rock and pop bands, and working on some music and word collaborations.
Aileen Bunch (electric guitar) is a professional musician from the Philadelphia area. A board certified music therapist and music educator, Aileen is a multi instrumentalist, and plays numerous keyboard, woodwind, string, and percussion instruments fluently. She earned her bachelors of music (piano and music therapy) from Temple University and completed her master studies in Music therapy at New York University. For more than 22 years she has been on the faculty of Settlement Music School in Philadelphia, and has performed near and far both solo and with Tiny Orchestral Moments, The Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists and Tilted Axes.
Jon Clancy (drums / percussion) is a multi-instrumental performer, improvisor, sound artist/engineer, and active freelancer based in New York City. They just completed their final semester in the Manhattan School of Music's graduate Contemporary Performance program. An avid collaborator with performers, composers, and sound artists from across the globe, Jon has premiered nearly 70 works for or involving percussion. This summer, as half of the multidisciplinary voice & percussion duo, panSonus, they will be holding residencies at the Queensland Conservatory, Piano Mill, and Tyalgum Festival in Brisbane, Australia. Jon will be appearing on releases from Innova and New World Records.
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. 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.
David Demnitz (electric guitar) received a Mary Cary Flagler Charitable Trust grant for production of his CD Gamelan As A Second Language (GSOL2, 1999) Demnitz’s four movement indictment of the Iraqi War, Operation Iraqi Liberation (O. I. L.) for gamelan and string quartet, can be heard on YouTube. Demnitz worked for 25 years as a music instructor at residential treatment centers in Westchester County. He currently is the director of Gamelan Son of Lion and the musical director of the On the Go Cabaret at the Association of Black Social Workers’ Senior Center and the center’s choir.
John Ferrari (drums / percussion) is active in classical, jazz, pop, Broadway, film/television, dance music, and multi-media. Performing nationally and abroad, he appears on dozens of recordings as a player and conductor. Besides core memberships in New Millennium Ensemble, Meridian Arts Ensemble, New Jersey Percussion Ensemble and Patrick Grant Group, collaborations have included Bang On A Can All-stars, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New Jersey Symphony, Yo-Yo Ma, Pittsburgh Collective, John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble and countless others. Ferrari is on faculty for Manhattan School of Music, Princeton and William Paterson Universities, and The Elisabeth Morrow School.
Jocelyn Gonzales (associate producer) is Executive Producer of the Peabody Award-winning radio show and podcast, Studio 360 from PRI/PRX and Slate. She’s a producer, engineer, and editor for public radio, audio publishing and podcasting. At The NY Times, she produced the weekly Popcast, Book Review, and Times Insider podcasts. She produced The Mash-Up Americans podcast at American Public Media, the science and medicine podcast Signal, and she is a sound designer for How It Is, a podcast from Hello Sunshine. She taught sound design for film, TV and new media at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts for nearly 14 years.
John 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 Copland 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.
John Lovaas (electric guitar) John's interest in guitar began in 1978; playing became practice in 2007, after his first Guitar Craft course. He participated in Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft and Guitar Circle projects in the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, and Italy. He lives and works in Woodstock, Illinois.
Jeremy Nesse (Chapman Stick) is a Manhattan-based multi instrumentalist specializing on Chapman Stick, bass, and all tones of the low end. He collaborates in touch instrument circles and musical projects across America. His eclectic musical interests are far-ranging and deep — from the interlocking precision of music termed “progressive,” to rock, jazz and funk.
photo credit: Avraham Bank
Chad Ossman (electric guitar) is a UX/UI Designer in New York City. He has participated in the (late) New York Guitar Circle and three Tilted Axes events.
Kevin Pfeiffer (electric guitar) is a Maryland native who has been playing bass guitar for what; about 34 years now...?, guitar secondarily one year less than that, and mandola for about the past 12 years, occasionally writing and singing inamidsts. Since moving to NYC in 2001, he participated in Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft courses, the New York Guitar Circle, The Yorktown Guitar Project/Trio, and the Tilted Axes Halloween '15 and '16 processions. Kevin currently plays bass in his original band Mayday! and the Led Zeppelin tribute band “Bustling Hedgerow” at various venues in the NYC area.
Sean Satin (electric guitar) began formal training under Jorge Morel. Shortly after, he was accepted into the Manhattan School of Music where he earned a B.M. in Classical Guitar Performance. While there, he studied with Oren Fader and Mark Delpriora. He also played in master classes for Eliot Fisk, Eduardo Fernandez, David Starobin, and James Smith. Sean later went on to earn an M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University, where he is pursuing post-graduate studies. He has performed throughout New York including a concert at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. Sean performs extensively in a wide variety of musical styles from classical to rock.
Sarah Metivier Schadt (electric bass) is a multi-instrumentalist and soprano who splits her time between Tilted Axes, the League of Guitarists, several church choirs, and the Berlin Guitar Ensemble. During the rare times she’s not traveling for workshops, rehearsals, and gigs, Sarah lives and gardens in far northern Illinois with her husband and two cats.
Harry Scott (stage manager) has participated in Tilted Axes as a performer and behind the scenes since 2013. Either on the Slapparoo, Jambe, or holding a sign/clipboard Harry has been working with the group since the infamous Alamo Tilt. He has been parading with military bands since high school and preformed with jazz greats such as Curtis Fuller, Frank Wess, and Hank Jones on trombone. When not circumambulating the village with a gathering of guitarists, he is a school chef for special needs children.
Sifu David Tamura (movement coach) was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He has over 45yrs of experience in Numerous Martial Art Systems. Judo (pre-school age), Kenpo, 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. David Tamura is also an accomplished and Professional Musician, applying his concepts in Martial Arts to Music and Personal/Human Development. He plays the Tenor/Alto/Soprano saxophones (Dave Burrell/JazzFakers/Kidd Jordan/Sabir Mateen/Marc Edwards Slipstream TimeTravel), Piano/Synths, and Electric guitar (VonLMO’s Red Resistor).
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