Patrick Grant (born 1963) is a Detroit-born American composer living and working in
New York City
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.
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
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and classically bent
post-minimal
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styles, through Balinese-inspired
gamelan
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and
microtonality, to
ambient, electronic
soundscape
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s 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''.
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American male classical composers
American classical composers
Postmodern composers
Musicians from Detroit
1963 births
Living people
Classical musicians from Michigan