upcoming events
(first Minnesota concert!)
Sunday September 22, 1 PM
Douglas Farrand
vespers 19 @ luke's (RSVP)
A bit about Doug:
I am a composer and musician living in Newark NJ and working in Orange NJ on a number of projects at the intersection of music, education, urbanism, and place-based organizing. I grew up living in and around Nottinghamshire (UK), Cork (Ireland), and Singapore, before moving to the United States of America in 2004. Since then I’ve moved from New Jersey to Ohio, Western New York state, and back to New Jersey again.
My work as a musician, teacher, and organizer is concerned with developing practices that invite us to explore our myriad processes of listening and embody a collective investigation of place, community, and personhood. I’m fortunate to be able to pursue this through numerous collaborative group and duo projects.
In Orange NJ I am the co-director (alongside composer/flutist Margaux Simmons and hip-hop artist/producer Ray Sykes) of Music City, a project with the University of Orange, a free people's urbanism school that focuses on education for equity. Music City works to connect and support music-making communities in Orange NJ, focusing on asset-based community development and popular education. I’m also director of and teaching artist with Sonic Explorations, a daily, free after-school music program at Oakwood Avenue Community School where students and teaching artists make music together in the context of string instrument classes, drumming classes, and sound/listening classes.
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Sunday September 22, 1 PM
Douglas Farrand
vespers 19 @ luke's (RSVP)
A bit about Doug:
I am a composer and musician living in Newark NJ and working in Orange NJ on a number of projects at the intersection of music, education, urbanism, and place-based organizing. I grew up living in and around Nottinghamshire (UK), Cork (Ireland), and Singapore, before moving to the United States of America in 2004. Since then I’ve moved from New Jersey to Ohio, Western New York state, and back to New Jersey again.
My work as a musician, teacher, and organizer is concerned with developing practices that invite us to explore our myriad processes of listening and embody a collective investigation of place, community, and personhood. I’m fortunate to be able to pursue this through numerous collaborative group and duo projects.
In Orange NJ I am the co-director (alongside composer/flutist Margaux Simmons and hip-hop artist/producer Ray Sykes) of Music City, a project with the University of Orange, a free people's urbanism school that focuses on education for equity. Music City works to connect and support music-making communities in Orange NJ, focusing on asset-based community development and popular education. I’m also director of and teaching artist with Sonic Explorations, a daily, free after-school music program at Oakwood Avenue Community School where students and teaching artists make music together in the context of string instrument classes, drumming classes, and sound/listening classes.
[Website]
