| Patrick Grant | |
| Birth Place: | Detroit, Michigan |
| Occupation: | Composer |
Patrick Grant (born 1963) is a Detroit-born American composer living and working in New York City.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3] 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..."[4] Known as a producer and co-producer of live musical events, he has presented many concerts of his own and other composers,[5] including a 2013 Guinness World Record-breaking performance of 175 electronic keyboards in NYC.[6] [7] He is the creator of International Strange Music Day (August 24)[8] and the pioneer of the electric guitar procession Tilted Axes.[9]