Patrick Grant (born 1963) is a Detroit-born American 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 over three continents.
Over the last three decades, his music has moved from
post-punk and classically bent
post-minimal
Postminimalism is an art term coined (as post-minimalism) by Robert Pincus-Witten in 1971Chilvers, Ian and Glaves-Smith, John, ''A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art'', second edition (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. ...
styles, through Balinese-inspired
gamelan and
microtonality, to
ambient
Ambient or Ambiance or Ambience may refer to:
Music and sound
* Ambience (sound recording), also known as atmospheres or backgrounds
* Ambient music, a genre of music that puts an emphasis on tone and atmosphere
* ''Ambient'' (album), by Moby
* ...
, 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 ''Tilted Axes''.
References
External links
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Patrick Grant on VimeoPatrick Grant on The MMiXdown*
Tilted Axes 2011 Documentary on GuitarkadiaScenes from Tilted Axes 2012 on Guitarkadia
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American male classical composers
American classical composers
Postmodern composers
Musicians from Detroit
1963 births
Living people
Date of birth missing (living people)
Classical musicians from Michigan