2024

November 24th - Piano+ w/ Manfred Werder
Spectrum, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NYC

November 3rd - Madison Brookshire “Expanded Double or Nothing” tour
Union Docs, NYC - https://uniondocs.org/event/2024-11-03-double-or-nothing-expanded/

November 2nd - Madison Brookshire “Expanded Double or Nothing” tour
Lost Bag, Providence RI, with mem1 (Laura and Mark Cetilia) and Kristina Warren

October 30th - Madison Brookshire “Expanded Double or Nothing” tour
Paul Manza’s loft, Kingston NY - with Katie Porter & Anne Panders, and Adriana Tampasis. Contact for address.

October 29th - Madison Brookshire “Expanded Double or Nothing” tour
SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton NY

October 27th - Piano+ w/ Madison Brookshire
Spectrum, Red Hook, Brooklyn NYC
Playing “Five Fifths” and “33 etc. variation” by Madison Brookshire alongside music by Gabriela Areal and Jordan Dykstra.

August 3rd- Verbatim
Round Top, NY
LCollective / Love Records will have table selling wares at this year’s Verbatim Sound and Poetry Expo. We will perform at some point during the day also.

May 5th- Piano +
Spectrum, Red Hook, Brooklyn NY
LCollective large group plays music by Teodora Stepancic, Laura Cetilia, Katie Porter, Germaine Sijstermans, Gabriela Areal, and Assaf Gidron.

April 5th- Piano +
Spectrum, Red Hook, Brooklyn NY
LCOLLECTIVE plays music by Grzegorz Marciniak, Nomi Epstein, Jordan Dykstra

March 31st - studio concert #5
Porter James will play at 7pm, new compositions for piano, voice, and trumpet, poetry in translation, and perhaps an excerpt from his new book of Zhuangzi translations.

March 16th - Saugerties NY (private concert)
Piano recital

March 3rd- Piano + Trumpet
Spectrum, Red Hook, Brooklyn NY
Teodora Stepancic and I will play a program of music for trumpet and piano, much of it written for us. Program includes pieces by Eugene Kim, Kelsey White, Vladan Kulisic, Craig Shepard, and more….

February 4th - Piano + Keyboards
Spectrum, Red Hook, Brooklyn NY
Music by Jesse Greenberg, Lucie Vitkova, Manfred Werder, alongside my keyboard ensemble piece “September 2017”, a transcription of tidal data from the Passaic River in my neighborhood.

January 28th - studio concert #4
Seminar Shadow (Lucie Vitkova and Teerepat Parmongkol) play at 7:30. Email me for address.

2023

December 17th - 4pm, FAITH+WORKS Candle Communion
The HUUB, Orange NJ
I’ll play new pieces for an 1840s Estey Company Reed Organ. “Resonance” written by Dr. Margaux Simmons, and a new piece written by myself.

November 19th 4PM - Piano+
Spectrum, Red Hook, Brooklyn NY
LCollective play John Cage, Teodora Stepancic, and Katie Porter.

November 5th 8PM - discrete species
Christian Smith plays our piece ‘discrete species’ at Infinity Experimental, Bulgaria

September 24th 4-6pm - Piano+ - Satoko Inoue & LCollective
Spectrum, Red Hook, Brooklyn NY
This is Piano+ official 5th season and 6th year! The first concert is on September 24th 4-6pm featuring a solo piano set by Satoko Inoue and a set by LCollective (Teodora Stepancic, Katie Porter, Christopher Foss, Douglas Farrand) playing pieces by Florencia Sgandurro, Assaf Gidron, Sarah Hughes, and Germaine Sjistermans.

September 16th - VERBATIM Text & Sound Expo
Opus 40, Saugerties NY
Playing again at this beautiful festival of small experimental poetry presses and record labels. Luke Martin, Noah O-B, and myself will play by the training wall at the Opus 40 sculpture around 5pm, organized by Ben Owen from winds measure recordings.

Early July - Music City team concert
@ World Fellowships Center, Albany NH
Music by University of Orange’s Music City team - including Margaux Simmons, Janis Blumgart, Douglas Farrand, Ray Sykes, and Reinita Persaud

Thursday June 22nd, 6PM
Flemington DIY, 26 Stangl Rd, Flemington NJ
Ghstflwr, Putty Knife, Chasing Ghosts, Mono Theory, Douglas Farrand

Saturday June 10th 3PM - Cleveland Re:Sound Festival
CONVIVIUM 33 GALLERY, Cleveland OH
LAURA POTTER + SHELLY DU // DOUGLAS FARRAND + RYAN SEWARD
Ryan Seward and I play ‘a current exhibition’, written for us by eva maria houben

Sunday June 4th 7:30-9PM - studio show #3
Newark NJ
Mark So - www.mark-so.com - 9, 0 MANFRED WERDER & MARK SO - LOS ANGELES WORK...03/2023 alongside Mark writing and reading.

Saturday May 13th 21:00 - Christian Smith plays Discrete Species
Helicopter Studios, Ulenpasstraat 55, 2531PL, The Hague, Netherlands
http://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1788
Hague-based American percussionist Christian Smith plays "‘Discrete Species” (2011-2023), a collaborative effort between him and musician Douglas Farrand. ‘Discrete Species’ is a modular work for solo performer and percussion, with auxiliary electronics and video. This version is specifically created for the Helicopter performance space. Christian is also a video artist, dj, and landscaper living in the Hague since 2016.

Wednesday May 10th 7:30-9PM - studio show #2
Newark NJ
Margaux Simmons is in town from VT.

Wednesday March 2nd 7:30-9PM - studio show #1
Newark NJ
luke martin will be in town from St Paul MN, and phoenix herring and vincenzo johnson will join us from jersey city. they will all present new work. email me dougfarrand@gmail.com to rsvp

2022

Saturday September 10th 12-9PM - VERBATIM text & sound expo
Opus 40, Saugerties NY
4:30PM, Douglas Farrand, John P. Hastings and Ben Owen perform Eva-Maria Houben and Mark So (winds measure)
Link

Saturday August 27th 7PM - Music City Concert
@ World Fellowship Center, Albany NH
Improvised duet with Margaux Simmons and a new solo piece for hearing aids, cassette tapes, & amplifier. Additional performances by King Sykez, Reinita, and Janis Blumgart.

Saturday August 6th 7-9PM - duet with Ben Owen @ Electropixel 12 – Nature and Cities
Harvestworks Art and Technology Program, Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island
Live outdoor performances with Ben Owen of “Your care is like a city [Atmosphere Study 7]” by Mark So.
Link.

March 25th 7-10PM - makrya + LCollective @ Smush Gallery
340 Summit Avenue, Jersey City, NJ. Presented by Con Vivo Music.
First set: makrya (Ryan Packard, Maya Bennardo, Kristofer Svensson)
Second set: LCollective (Jesse Greenberg, Douglas Farrand, Teodora Stepančić, Assaf Gidron, Ryan Packard, Maya Bennardo) play Ryan Packard’s “Continuo” and Maya Verlaak’s “Evidence Based”. Ryan and Douglas perform an iteration of Douglas Farrand’s ‘duet 2018’.
Third set: LCollective performs Douglas Farrand’s “double trio (2021)”

2021

October 29th at 8PM - piano+ winds
@ a church in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. playing music by Assaf Gidron, Teodora Stepančić, Laura Cetilia. Katie Porter (clarinet), Christopher Foss (bassoon), Erin Rogers (saxophone), Amanda Tabor (french horn), Olivia Shortt (saxophone) , Douglas Farrand (trumpet), Teodora Stepančić (piano)

October 15th at 6PM & 7PM (two performances) - Jordan Dykstra’s “GG”
Outdoor performance of Jordan Dykstra’s “GG”, performed by many melodicas somewhere along the G line.

October 10th at 4PM - MuFoCo: Taking It Outside
New music for 8 trumpets by Tony Geballe. Link
In his new work Ordinary Time, Tony Geballe leads eight trumpets. Working with the natural tones of the trumpet, the dense harmonies build and release tension. Based on the breath, the shifting colors alternately speed up and slow down the listener's sense of time. The event is entirely outdoors. All performers are required to be vaccinated; listeners are strongly encouraged to wear masks. The Newtown Creek Nature walk is located near the ends of Paidge Avenue and Provost Streets at the northeast tip of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. 7 to Hunter’s Point Avenue and walk over the Pulaski, G to Greenpoint Avenue, B32/B67 to the foot of the Pulaski Bridge. Parking is available near the entrance to the Walk. Concert is free an open to the public. RSVP requested but not required.

August 31st at 7:30PM - Piano + — garden
Bed Stuy - Naeemah Maddox, Rachel Mangold, Rahul Nair, Jesse Greenberg, Assaf Gidron, Teodora Stepancic, and Douglas Farrand play music by Rahul, Naeemah - ‘nebulae’, Assaf - ‘commit’, and Douglas - ‘double trio’

June 29th at 7:30PM - Piano + — garden
Bed Stuy. Assaf Gidron, Teodora Stepancic, Lester St Louis, Jesse Greenberg, Douglas Farrand, Jeff Weston and Rachel Mangold play music by Gabriela Areal, Florencia Sgandurra, Teodora, Lester, and Rachel. Link to register here.

June 20th, 6-9PM - ForceFields
West Hartford, CT. An evening of sound and performance with Tara Long, Aubrey Murdock, Douglas Farrand, Sto Len, and more.

May 30th at 7:30PM - Piano + — stoop/street
Bed Stuy - Lester St Louis, Assaf Gidron, Teodora Stepancic, Jesse Greenberg, Lucie Vitkova, and Douglas Farrand will play new works by Kwamé Omari, Lucie Vítková, and Jesse Greenberg, and older works by Germaine Sijstermans and John Lely. Register for the address here. Register for the address here.

February 14th, 2021 TBD - Soundscapes Virtual Edition
University of Orange/Music City/Soundscapes hosted virtual concert as a part of Mushrooms & Marx Jan Term. Includes LCollective playing John Cage’s Four6 (Jesse Greenberg, toys; Assaf Gidron, electronics and objects; Teodora Stepancic, piano and keyboards and radio; Douglas Farrand, trumpet and tapes and detritus)

February 9th, 2021 7:30PM CT / 8:30PM EST - Gray Sound: Ryan Packard
The Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry continues the Gray Sound series with a performance by Ryan Packard. Includes video performance by Ryan Packard and Douglas Farrand of duet 1/7/2018. More information at this link.

2020

August 19th, 2020 6:30PM EST - Piano+ outside
Piano+ garden concert with LCollective + social distancing + masks. Music by Rachel Mangold, Douglas Farrand, Assaf Gidron, YoungEun Kim and Pauline Oliveros. Performed by: Naeemah Maddox, Jesse Greenberg, Lester St Louis, Teodora Stepančić, Rachel Mangold, Douglas Farrand, and Assaf Gidron. Audience limited to 15. Register at this link to RSVP.

August 7th, 2020 9PM EST - Walks and Days
Online readings and performances from Porter James’ Walks and Days book. I’ll play several pieces alongside Jesse Greenberg, Assaf Gidron, and Teodora Stepancic. Additional readings and performances from Gabriela Areal, Rehanna Azimi, Stray Poets Collective, and others. REGISTER FOR ZOOM LINK

April 25th, 2020 7PM EST - RADIO CASo, Centro De Arte Sonoro, Argentina
Radio broadcast of music by Gabriela Areal: pars played by Vio Garcia, para piano played by Angeles Rojas, and holsa played by LCollective (Christopher Foss, Assaf Gidron, Jesse Greenberg, Denera James, Teodora Stepancic, Douglas Farrand).
escuchá en centrodeartesonoro.cultura.gob.ar

March 28, 2020 2pm CET - Dante's hour #2
Program: Darya Zvezdina - there is no place for me on this map (2019) Christine Cornwell - at this moment (2018) Douglas Farrand - Piano Miniature for Peter Freeman (2014) Dean Rosenthal - Ostinato Obbligato (2017) Taylan Susam - tombeau (2014) Kirill Shirokov - everyday melodies: 27.march.20 (2020) - view recorded stream

February 5th, 2020 - International Noise Conference
Churchill’s Pub, Miami FL - 12:15AM
performance with Violettas (incl. Tara Long, Aubrey Murdock, others) FB EVENT

February 4th, 2020 - International Noise Conference
Churchill’s Pub, Miami FL - 9PM-3AM
Aubrey Murdock and Douglas Farrand duo performance as Idumea FB EVENT

January 26th, 2020 7PM - Music City Living Room Concert Series
Hale House Living Room, 47 Cleveland Street, Orange, NJ
Living Room Concert Series III, featuring Eastern Foreigner, a glassy ruckus, and the ‘99 Trip
$8-10 suggested donation

January 21st, 2020 - 597 Concerts #3
house concert, Brooklyn NYC
Manfred Werder with LCollective. First half will feature LCollective's actualization of two ensemble works: 2008/1 and performer series (1999-), followed by Manfred's solo performance 2016/0.

January 10th-18th, 2020 - Co-Incidence Festival, Somerville MA
Washington Street Art Center in Somerville, MA. Guest artists: Robert Blatt, Grace Carney, Joachim Eckl, Douglas Farrand, Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu, Michael Pisaro, Sarah Pitan, Morgan Schoonover, Ryan Seward, Manfred Werder, and the unlimited present agency. Daily morning realizations of my piece choruses (1).
WEBSITE

2019

December 18th - 597 Concerts
house concert, Brooklyn NY
LCollective (Assaf Gidron, Teodora Stepancic, Douglas Farrand) and Rebecca Lane. Music by Cat Lamb, YoungEun Kim, Sarah Hughes.

December 16th - LCollective Upstate NY tour
Green Kill Gallery, Kingston, NY
LCollective (Douglas Farrand: trumpet, tapes, detritus, etc, Assaf Gidron: sinetones, Jesse Greenberg: glockenspiel and other resonant metal objects, and Teodora Stepančić: keyboards) playing a new score ‘a quartet - december 2019’
Sarah Hennies
Michael Bisio

December 15th - LCollective Upstate NY tour
Ithaca, NY
LCollective (Teodora Stepancic, Jesse Greenberg, Assaf Gidron, Douglas Farrand) with Morgan Evans-Weiler. Email for details.
Music by Jesse Greenberg (‘scroll’), Assaf Gidron (‘commit’) and Douglas Farrand (‘a quartet - december 2019’)

December 5th, 2019 6PM - Remembering Rosa: A Concert for Peace
Rosa Parks Community School, Central Auditorium
Music City’s 4th annual Remembering Rosa concert featuring performances from Ebenezer Baptist Church Gospel Choir, Orange Community Choir, and others. This year Remembering Rosa is a part of the 400 Years of Inequality call to observance.

November 22nd, 2019 7PM - Madison Brookshire & LCollective in Pittsburgh
Harris Theater, Pittsburgh PA
Madison Brookshire & LCollective present a program of Madison’s films with and without live ensemble as a part of the 37th annual Three Rivers Film Festival in Pittsburgh, PA. Program: Five Lines / Over 30 Minutes / Two Suns / Veils Part I. WEBSITE

October 20th, 2019 7:30PM - Piano+ #17
Areté Gallery, 67 West Street #103, Brooklyn NY
Piano+ concert series organized by Teodora Stepancic
I’ll play Germaine Sijstermans’ Jasminum, Grzegorz Marciniak’s melodica duets, new duets for trumpet and piano by Vladan Kulušić, and Teodora Stepancic’s Trumpet. FB EVENT

September 22nd, 2019 1PM- Vespers [solo] concert series
St Paul, MN
solo house concert organized by Luke Martin.
Luke and I will play ‘a duet - august 2019’, and I will play from ‘six hours’
WeBSITE

September 20th, 2019 21HR
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
vuelven estos conciertos en la casa de Gabriela Areal, será el viernes 20 de septiembre a las 21h.
con: rosa nolly, mariana brondino, florencia sgandurra, gabriela areal (saxos barítonos, armonio eléctrico, cello).
piezas de: rosa nolly, germaine sijstermans (a song), assaf gidron (group), douglas farrand (a duet - august 2019).
con entrada a colaboración, propongo traer algo para beber luego (habrá guiso)

August 11th, 2019 7PM
Caffé d’Amore Coffee Company, Pittsburgh PA
Jeff Weston & Douglas Farrand // Mixed Use // Jim Storch
7PM doors 7:30 show, $5

August 4th, 2019
Klangraum Festival, Düsseldorf DE
Realizing pieces by Josten Myburgh (Sculthorpe Studies)

August 3rd, 2019
Klangraum Festival, Düsseldorf DE
Realizing pieces by Seamus Cater (tree space) & Luke Martin, & Assaf Gidron (Group), Germaine Sijstermans (Jasminum)

August 2nd, 2019
Klangraum Festival, Düsseldorf DE
Realizing pieces by Seamus Cater (tree space) & Luke Martin (reading)

August 1st, 2019
Klangraum Festival, Düsseldorf DE
Realizing pieces by Germaine Sijstermans (a song), Seamus Cater (tree space), Assaf Gidron, Teodora Stepancic (Trumpet), & Gabriela Areal & Florencia Sgandurra (a collection of/how long is now)

July 31st, 2019
Klangraum Festival, Düsseldorf DE
Realizing pieces by Assaf Gidron & Gabriela Areal & Florencia Sgandurra (a collection of/how long is now)

July 30th, 2019
Klangraum Festival, Düsseldorf DE
Realizing pieces by Gabriela Areal (holsa), Luke Martin (ghosts), and Germaine Sijstermans (Jasminum)

July 28th, 2019 2PM-5PM
Lima_ateliers, Schaesbergerweg 58, 6415 AJ, Heerlen, the Netherlands
For this concert four musicians from the New York based LCollective (Assaf Gidron, Douglas Farrand, Evelyn Emile, and Teodora Stepančić), composer/cellist Gabriela Areal from Buenos Aires and clarinettist/composer Germaine Sijstermans from Heerlen join forces. By acoustic and electronic sounds, the musicians will perform each other’s pieces that embrace space in and between people, and the humble, hushed and attentive voice of the outsider.
Germaine Sijstermans [Jasminum], Teodora Stepancic [duo & Trumpet], Douglas Farrand [a sextet - july 2019]
Assaf Gidron (sinetones), Douglas Farrand (trumpet), Evelyn Emile, Gabriela Areal (cello), Germaine Sijstermans (clarinet), Teodora Stepancic (keyboards)
WEBSITE

July 26th, 2019
Intro in Situ, Boschstraat 7, 6211 AS Maastricht, Netherlands
LCollective with Germaine Sijstermans (NL) & Gabriela Areal (Argentina).
Gabriela Areal [Holsa], Evelyn Emile [Seasons & Days] [Elephants for the Circus], Assaf Gidron [new piece]
Assaf Gidron (sinetones), Douglas Farrand (trumpet), Evelyn Emile, Gabriela Areal (cello), Germaine Sijstermans (clarinet), Teodora Stepancic (keyboards)
FACEBOOK EVENT

June 25th, 2019
house concert, Brooklyn NY
played Sculthorpe Studies by Josten Myburgh and improvisation with Assaf Gidron, Teodora Stepancic, Christopher Foss, Josten Myburgh, and others.

June 22nd, 2019 8PM- Dog Star Festival XV: Civil Twilight
The Wild Beast, CalArts
The Dog Star finale this year takes place mostly outdoors in the area around The Wild Beast on the CalArts campus in Valencia. The opening and closing works on the program are composed in reference to the sky positions on June 22nd. The program includes large ensemble compositions by Ryan Seward (to knowe the spryng of the dawenyng and the ende of the evenyng, the whiche ben called the two crepuscules), Christine Burke (for 5+ performers), Sergio Cote Barco (pájaros cargando memorias) and a new piece derived June 22nd astrological positions by Marta Tiesenga.
WEBSITE

June 15th, 2019 7:30PM- Dog Star Festival XV: LCollective
LA River, near Fletcher Drive exit off I-5 Los Angeles
LCollective (Douglas Farrand, Assaf Gidron, Evelyn Emile, Matt Lau, and Teodora Stepancic) offer a concert with LA-based composers/sound artists Eugene Kim and YoungEun Kim. LCollective is a group of composers and musicians based in Brooklyn & Queens NY and Newark NJ.
WEBSITE

June 9th, 2019 8:30PM- Piano+ #15
Areté Gallery, 67 West Street #103, Brooklyn NY
Piano+ concert series organized by Teodora Stepancic
playing music by Eugene Kim and Germaine Sijstermans, also music by Laura Cetilia, YoungEun Kim, & Cecilia Arditto. w/ Teodora, Assaf Gidron, Laura and Mark Cetilia, and Matt Lau.

May 18th, 2019 - MUSIC CITY FESTIVAL
35 & 47 Cleveland Street, Orange NJ
University of Orange’s 3rd annual Music City Festival! Connecting, supporting, and celebrating musicians living and working in Orange NJ. http://www.universityoforange.org

May 1st, 2019, 7:30PM- MUSIC CITY & Soundscapes: Minivan, Khari Johnson Ricks, Minty IV
47 Cleveland Street, Orange NJ
Soundscapes and University of Orange's Music City project present: Minivan, Khari Johnson Ricks, Minty IV.

April 15th - Madison Brookshire in NYC: Fountain @ Microscope
7:30PM, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn NYC
Passage (collaboration with Tashi Wada), Veils, Fountain
Musicians: Denera James, Douglas Farrand, Christopher Foss, Teodora Stepancic, Jesse Greenberg, Rachel Mangold, Matt Lau, Assaf Gidron
brief instagram excerpt from VEILS here

April 14th - Madison Brookshire in NYC: SHOW AND TELL @ Anthology Film Archives
7:30PM, Anthology Film Archives, Manhattan NYC
As Water Is In Water (collaboration w/ Tashi Wada), About 11 Minutes, OPENING
Musicians: Teodora Stepancic, Lucie Vitkova, Ben Owen

April 13th, 7PM - Koen Nutters & Heather Frasch
house concert, Brooklyn NYC
Ryoko Akama - A Proposal (Teodora Stepancic, Assaf Gidron, Koen Nutters, Heather Frasch)
Assaf Gidron - bass guitar duet (Teodora Stepancic, Assaf Gidron)
Koen Nutters & Heather Frasch duo
Teodora Stepancic - Keyboards December 2017 (Teodora Stepancic, Assaf Gidron, Koen Nutters, Heather Frasch, Douglas Farrand, John P. Hastings)

April 12th - Madison Brookshire in NYC: 4 Films @ Mono No Aware
7:30PM, Mono No Aware, 33 Flatbush Ave, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn NYC
Five Lines, Over Thirty Minutes, Two Suns, and Two
Musicians: John P Hastings, Assaf Gidron, Douglas Farrand, Madison Brookshire

March 3rd 2019, 8PM - Piano+ #13
Areté Gallery, 67 West Street #103, Greenpoint, Brooklyn NY
concert series organized by Teodora Stepancic
playing trumpet and piano-8-hands in ensemble works: Alison Isadora: Part 6, Eva-Maria Houben: Echo Fantasy IV, Lucie Vítková: Small Form Pieces, Maya Verlaak: Song&Dance. performed by Danielle Mink-Bellizzi. Denera James. Rahul Nair. Douglas Farrand. Rachel Mangold. Jesse Greenberg. Christopher Foss. Matt Lau. Assaf Gidron. Teodora Stepancic.

March 1st 2019, 9:24-9:29PM EST
Ongoing performance of duet 1/7/2018 realized by Ryan Packard & Douglas Farrand
Fulton Street Collective, Chicago, IL & 215 Walnut Street, Newark, NJ

January 24th, 2019 - MUSIC CITY & Soundscapes: Mdou Moctar & IllNomads
47 Cleveland Street, Orange NJ
Soundscapes and University of Orange's Music City project present: MDOU MOCTAR, Tuareg Rock Band from Agadez, Niger and ILL NOMADS from Orange NJ in concert at the HUUB, 47 Cleveland Street, Orange NJ. Doors 7:30PM, Music starts 8:00PM, $5-10 donation Mdou Moctar will also be leading a FREE interactive Tuareg guitar workshop at 4pm. Space is VERY limited to please RSVP by emailing music.city.orange.nj@gmail.com. Bring an acoustic guitar or electric guitar with your own cables (including extension cord) and a small amp.

January 19th 2019, 3PM - Piano+ #12
Spectrum 70 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn NY
concert series organized by Teodora Stepancic
Ofir Klemperer plays music from his MS-20 album. Ofir, Assaf Gidron, Teodora Stepancic, Douglas Farrand, Matt Lau, Jesse Greenberg, and Lucie Vitkova play new septet by Douglas Farrand.

January 11th 2019, 7:30PM - Discrete Species [Christian Smith]
KM28, Berlin, Germany
Sequence presents: Discrete Species performed by Christian Smith, one hour of music for single percussion instruments (frame drum, spring drum, tile, stone, and saw blades). Two pieces by Esaias Järnegard, Kuarup A+B, open the concert. "Kuarup" refers to a birth or death ceremony, and Järnegard draws heavily from his interest in the Noaidis of Greenland. The third piece, Discrete Species, is a modular work that has been developed by Douglas Farrand and Christian since 2011. This is a 30-minute version for video and pre-recorded material along with live elements like rubbed stone and tile.

January 2nd-9th 2019 - Music For Contemplation: Creating Music Together Retreat
LA QUINTA TONANTZIN, TEPOZTLAN, MEXICO
Artists, programmers, accountants, and musicians gather for seven days of silence, listening, writing music, singing each other's inspirations in private performances, and preparing and sharing meals.
https://www.mufoco.info

2018

December 15th 2018, 3:30PM - LCollective Winter Solstice Concert
The HUUB, 35 Cleveland Street, Orange NJ 07050
Assaf Gidron bassoon solo, Gabriela Areal holsa, Evelyn Emile duets, Assaf Gidron clarinet and recorder, Mark So spirit wall and impulse of morning - played by Assaf, Christopher Foss, Denera James, Douglas Farrand, Jesse Greenberg, and Teodora Stepancic.

December 9th 2018, 3PM - Piano+ #11
Spectrum 70 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn NY
concert series organized by Teodora Stepancic
new music for piano and guitars by Maya Verlaak, Lisa Hirsch, Matt Lau, Graham Flett, with LCollective and Elliot Simpson

December 1st, 2018 - Remembering Rosa: A Concert for Peace
Ebenezer Baptist Church, Orange, NJ
University of Orange’s Music City Project presents a third annual concert featuring church choirs and school choirs from Orange NJ.

September 22nd 2018, LCollective mini-tour
The HUUB, 35 Cleveland Street, Orange NJ 07050
Larry Polansky: seventeen squared chords
Margaux Simmons: Listen to This
Assaf Gidron: new piece
Douglas Farrand: some chords
Evelyn Emile: Seasons and Days (ensemble version) + film
Teodora Stepancic: Construction

September 16th 2018, LCollective mini-tour
Standing Waves Concert Series- MIT Press Bookstore, Boston MA
Playing on a portrait concert featuring works by Teodora Stepancic, organized by Morgan Evans-Weiler. 
New piece for Ordinary Affects with Trumpet (2011)
Line 3  played by Ordinary Affects and LCollective

September 15th 2018, LCollective mini-tour - noon -    2PM
RISD Museum, Providence RI
Teodora Stepancic performs Andre Cormier’s “Zwischen den Wolken”

September 14th 2018, LCollective mini-tour  -  8PM
159 Sutton, Providence RI
Evelyn Emile: Seasons and Days (ensemble version)
Laura Cetilia: Slowly Goes the Night (duo)
Gabriela Areal: holsa
Manfred Werder: performer series (1999-2015) 6 ausfürende
Douglas Farrand: some chords
Teodora Stepancic: construction

August 18th 2018, Music City- Sykes, Simmons, Farrand
World Fellowship Center, Albany/Conway NH
Concert featuring Music City organizers Ray Sykes, Margaux Simmons, and Douglas Farrand.

August 9th 2018, 8PM - Farrand / Weston duo summer tour
Surface Noise Records, Louisville KY
Please join us on Thursday, August 9, for performances by R. Keenan Lawler and Douglas Farrand & Jeff Weston. Local favorite R.Keenan Lawler will be making his Surface Noise debut with a set of microtonal acoustic guitar pieces in 19 equal temperament. Douglas Farrand and Jeff Weston play slow music for trumpet, bass, keyboard instruments, and occasional detritus. facebook event

August 8th 2018, 8PM - Farrand / Weston duo summer tour
house show in Kingston TN (message 908 644 6675 for details)

August 7th 2018, 7PM - Farrand / Weston duo summer tour
3577 Studios @ 3577 Bigelow Blvd, Pittsburgh PA
Jeff Weston and I are touring with music for trumpet, bass, and chord organ. Pittsburgh PA show also features Pittsburgh-based poet Heather Kresge and singer-songwriter duo Paul Lombardo and Juliana Carr from Orange NJ.
facebook event

June 29th 2018
Piano+ #8 @ Spectrum, 70 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn NY
new works from Teodora Stepancic, Assaf Gidron, Jesse Greenberg, Matt Lau, Douglas Farrand, Coleman Zurkowski
hour long piece composed by all of us, incorporating my ‘three scores (summer 2018)’

May 19th 2018, 2PM-8PM
Music City Festival @ The HUUB, 35 Cleveland Street, Orange NJ
Annual music festival celebrating music-making in Orange NJ

May 6th 2018, 3PM
Piano+ #7 @ Spectrum 70 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn NY
Larry Polansky- B'midbar
Teodora Stepancic (piano), Assaf Gidron (Casio keyboard), Jesse Greenberg (glockenspiel), Matt Lau (bass guitar), Douglas Farrand (melodica, trumpet)

May 5th 2018, 4-6PM
Music City: Sykes & Simmons @ The Black Box Theatre
@ Luna Stage, 555 Valley Road, West Orange NJ
Supported by New Jersey Council for the Humanities

April 13th 2018, 9PM
Piano+ #6, @ Spectrum, 70 Flushing Avenue Garage A, Brooklyn NY 11205
Teodora Stepancic with Assaf Gidron. Jesse Greenberg. Douglas Farrand
Luc Ferrari: À la recherche du rythme perdu
Ana Gnjatović: new work
Jasna Veličković: Shadow Study 4a
John Lely: All about the Piano
Coleman Alexander Zurkowski: Eight Through-Composed Harmonies - 6.B
Piano+ is a monthly concert series curated by composer and pianist Teodora Stepančić. Newly written and recent works together with 20th century favorites. For piano, electronics, various instruments, voices and sound objects.

March 4th 2018, 3-5PM
Piano+ #5, @ Spectrum, 70 Flushing Avenue Garage A, Brooklyn NY 11205
music by Pauline Oliveros, Teodora Stepančić, Coleman Alexander Zurkowski, Evelyn Emile, and Larry Polanski
performed by Assaf Gidron. Matt Lau. Miloš Raičković. Nathan Repasz. Coleman Alexander Zurkowski. Douglas Farrand
Piano+ is a monthly concert series curated by composer and pianist Teodora Stepančić. Newly written and recent works together with 20th century favorites. For piano, electronics, various instruments, voices and sound objects. FACEBOOK EVENT

February 10th 2018, 2-5PM
Music City - University of Orange January Term Seminar Part 2
35 Cleveland Street, Orange NJ 07105
FACEBOOK EVENT

“Can you imagine your own resonance? Can you imagine listening beyond the edge of your own imagination? Can you imagine every cell in your entire body is vibrating all the time? Can you imagine the tuning of the universe? Can you imagine the echoes of all the footsteps you have ever taken?” – Pauline Oliveros

Jan Term is an annual UofO program geared toward the practice of urbanism and strengthening our tools to build healthy, equitable, and beautiful cities. This year's Jan Term, led by the UofO Music Department, is centered around the themes of deep listening, oral history, and storytelling practices. Together we’ll explore the sounds of our city, practice ways of listening to place, to community, and to personhood, and introduce you to our new initiative – “Music City” – which celebrates the incredible diversity of music-making communities in Orange NJ. 

University of Orange’s music department invites you to join us for Jan Term 2018. To earn your 2018 Jan Term Urbanism Certificate, participate in our seminar, field trip, and a volunteer opportunity. For more information follow University of Orange on facebook or email us at music.city.orange.nj@gmail.com.

January 26th, 2018, 7:30PM
Shared Space - electronic @ Mise-En Place NYC
Electronic Music Concert organized by Teodora Stepancic
works by Assaf Gidron, Cindy Giron, Ana Gnjatovic, Sam Sfirri, Douglas Farrand (geese & chords), and Sohrab Motabar. FACEBOOK EVENT.

January 20th 2018
Music City - University of Orange January Term
Seminar Part 1 - January 27th, 2-5PM
Split Rock Sweetwater Prayer Camp was formed by the Ramapough Lenape nation to educate the public on the impending crisis of the AIM and Pilgrim pipeline that threaten the water supply in our region. Join us to hear from water protectors and to listen to the sounds of this sacred site.

January 3rd - 10th, 2018
Music for Contemplation - Creating Music Together Retreat
ST. MARY'S RETREAT HOUSE, OXFORD, MICHIGAN - https://www.mufoco.info/retreat/

2017

December 12th, 2017
WATER TONES: Music by Milos Raickovich & Teodora Stepancic
@ ShapeShifter Labs, 9:30PM
https://tockify.com/fortunasung/detail/509/1513132200000

December 1st, 2017, 6:30PM
Music City: Remembering Rosa, A Concert for Peace
Concert featuring church choirs and school choirs from Orange NJ

October 4th, 2017
Keyboards II, NYC
New works for keyboard ensemble composed and performed by Assaf Gidron, Teodora Stepancic, Lucie Vitkova, Douglas Farrand (September 2017), Coleman Zurowski

September 23rd, 2017, 8PM
Vernon Street Studios, 6 & 20 Vernon St, Somerville MA 02145
Ordinary Affects plays music by Patrick Farmer and Douglas Farrand (August 2017). FB EVENT PAGE.

August 26th, 2017, 8PM
house concert (email dougfarrand @ gmail for address), Brooklyn NY
Cindy Giron plays solo electroacoustic music, Christian Smith and Douglas Farrand play pieces by YoungEun Kim, Eugene Kim, and  themselves. FB EVENT

August 25th, 2017, 8PM
Third Life Studios, Somerville MA
Cindy Giron plays solo electroacoustic music, Christian Smith and Douglas Farrand play pieces by YoungEun Kim (with Cindy and Porter James), Eugene Kim, and themselves. FB EVENT

July 4th, 2017, 7PM
World Fellowship Center, Albany NH
"400 Years of Inequality: What Does America Mean to Me?"
Premiere of new piece by Dr. Margaux Simmons, You have the right to remain silenced
Margaux Simmons (flute and voice), Jamy Lasell (harmonica), Douglas Farrand (bells)

July 2nd, 2017, 10AM
World Fellowship Center, Albany NH
Sound & Listening Workshop

June 17th, 8:05pm
Music for Contemplation, Church of the Annunciation, Brooklyn NY
Craig Shepard leads day-long intensive workshop including vocal meditations, listening exercises, and group composition. More information here.

June 4th, 2017, 5PM
35 Cleveland Street, Orange NJ
FAITH + WORKS series @ First UU

May 20th, 2017, 2PM-6PM
Music City Festival
35 Cleveland Street, Orange NJ

April 29th, 2017
University of Orange Placemaking 9: Already Beautiful, 2PM-6PM
35 Cleveland Street, Orange NJ
Sound installation "FAITH + WORKS" installed in Sanctuary of First UU Church of Essex County

April 15th, 2017
the wulf. @ CoAxial Arts, Los Angeles, CA
new works concert with Christian Smith, YoungEun Kim, and Eugene Kim

March 19th, 2017, 11am-5pm
six hours (3) @ Syndicate for the New Arts
Cleveland OH
CoolCleveland Listing
“six hours” is an extended duration work for cassette tapes, stones, objects, and whistling. The piece is an ongoing accretion of materials and detritus, born out of a daily practice of listening and composition. This is the third performance of the piece. Additional performance include Buffalo (November 2016) and Pittsburgh (March 2017).

March 6th, 2017, 11am-5pm
six hours (2) @ Constellation Coffee
Pittsburgh PA
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Listing
“six hours” is an extended duration work for cassette tapes, stones, objects, and whistling. The piece is an ongoing accretion of materials and detritus, born out of a daily practice of listening and composition. This is the second performance of the piece. Additional performance include Buffalo (November 2016) and Cleveland (March 2017). 

2016

December 1st 2016, 6PM
Remembering Rosa: A Concert for Peace
Central Auditorium at Rosa Parks Community School, Orange NJ
On Thursday, December 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus and set off the famous Montgomery Bus boycott. This year, on Thursday, December 1st, Orange choirs and choruses will join to sing for peace in the city. Join us at 6 PM, Rosa Parks Community School, 369 Main Street, Orange, NJ.

The concert for peace is the inaugural Music City event. Music City aims to bring together and celebrate Orange’s incredible diversity of musical communities. It is a project of the University of Orange's music department with support from Healthy Orange Coalition.

November 20th 2016, 6PM-midnight
Six Hours
Rust Belt Books, 415 Grant Street, Buffalo NY
from 6pm until midnight I'll be performing a new 6-hour work at the invitation of Rust Belt Books and Kristi Meal, woven from 5 nocturnes for cassette tapes and several pieces for stones, whistling, and sinetones.

November 4th 2016, 7PM
Keyboard Music
Spectrum, Ludlow Street, NYC
New works for keyboards written by Jason Brogan, Douglas Farrand, Assaf Gidron, Jeremos Kamphuis, and Sam Sfirri. Performed by the composers with Teodora Stepancic.

October 9th 2016, 7PM
Sanctuary at First UU in Orange, 35 Cleveland Street, Orange NJ (easy access from Orange Train Station)
I’ll play a recent piano piece, ‘piano piece - 75 chords’. This piece will last about 30-45 minutes, and consists of four repetitions of 75 chords. The musical material is a fabric woven from chords derived from the names of many people who have inspired and influenced me this past year, all living and working in Orange NJ. The form is one i rely on a lot, a simple sequence, one thing following another thing.

October 8th 2016, 8:05pm
Music for Contemplation, Church of the Annunciation, Brooklyn NY
Craig Shepard leads day-long intensive workshop including vocal meditations, listening exercises, and group composition. More information here.

September 8th 2016, 8:30pm
JazzOff/L'oeil Kollectif invites Christian Smith, L'an Vert, Liegé, Belgium
Christian Smith presents recent work, including solo improvisations, sections from my 'discrete species - late winter - solo percussion', and duo improvisations with Louis Freres.

June 28th 2016 & July 1st 2016
World Fellowship Center, Albany NH
teaching listening/sounding workshops

April 1st 2016
Wesleyan University, Middletown CT
Guitar and Flute (2011)
perf. by Kevin Dee and Laura Cocks

January 29th 2016
High Concept Labs, Chicago IL
webpage

"HCL is poised and pleased to host an evening of sound and installation curated by Ryan Packard of Fonema Consort (Sponsored Artists, Fall 2014.) Packard will share his own compositions as well as that of Jessie Downs and Douglas Farrand, composers currently based in Buffalo, NY. The installation showing will take place from 4 to 7 PM, and the concert will begin at 8 PM.

Composers Jessie Downs, Doug Farrand, and Ryan Packard will present works that focus on the subtleties of duration, silence, frequency, and timbre, exposing detailed beauty in every grain of sound."

Jade Conlee - piano, Jessie Downs - voice, Douglas Farrand - electronics, Zachary Good - clarinet, Myra Hinrichs - viola, Lia Kohl - cello, Ryan Packard - percussion/electronics, Min Park - violin, Ryan Zerna - flute

PROGRAM

4 to 7 PM Installation/long piece by Doug Farrand and Ryan Packard

II. resonant titles on light / seascapes
too colors tones resonances / use of particulars Maine

8 PM Concert

BELLS AT SEA Doug Farrand

Streetlights Jessie Downs

epiphyllum oxypetalum Ryan Packard

[brief pause]

For Good Ryan Packard

I did not see it to the end Jessie Downs

2015

December 4th 2015
Flatterschaf, Basel, Switzerland
discrete species - late winter - solo percussion
perf. by Christian Smith, interspersed with solo improvisations
https://www.facebook.com/events/433034840240789/

August 3rd - August 17th 2015
Every Monday 3pm-6pm
Open studio at ORNG Ink.
Douglas Farrand and Jessie Downs - studio hours at the Ironworks studio on Tompkins Street, Orange NJ
Open to students aged 6-18

August 2nd 2015
4.30pm Hunter's Point South Park, Queens NYC
two trumpets - August 2nd 2015 - Hunter's Point South Park
perf. by Douglas Farrand and Craig Shepard

July 14th 2015
8pm Ironworks Studio, Orange NJ
Solo performance of a new piece

II. resonant titles on light / seascapes
    too colors tones resonances / use of particulars Maine

Ironwork Studio, Tompkins St, Orange NJ 07050

June 18th 2015
6.30-7.30pm Seward Park, Manhattan
performance of a new solo piece 'for three similar objects and radio, June 18th 2015, Seward Park' 

March 2015
performance of trio (trumpet trombone piano) in Slee Hall, University at Buffalo
performed by University at Buffalo Contemporary Music Ensemble, dir. Matthew Chamberlain
trumpet - Matthew Caputy, euphonium - Ian Kerr-Mace, piano - Su Lee
alongside music by Justin Murphy-Mancini and others

2014

October 10th 2014
Basel Hochschüle für Musik, Switzerland
discrete species - late winter - solo percussion
perf. by Christian Smith

2013

August 10th 2013
12:30-18:45
performing Mark So's into silence - readings 23
a ~7 hour performance
private address, Oberlin OH

April 21st 2013
4.30pm-5.45pm Warner Concert Hall, Oberlin Conservatory OH
some music - featuring Justin Murphy-Mancini (organ), Cariad Zinky (piano), Katie Robertstad (trombone), and Aaron Plourde (trumpet)
organ solo (2012-2013) premiere
trio (trumpet, trombone, piano) premiere

Late March 2013
Montreal, Canada
discrete species - late winter - solo percussion
perf. by Christian Smith
alongside pieces by Sam Sfirri, Michael Pisaro, and improvisations by Benjamin Bacon and Ryan Packard

March 20th 2013
9pm-10pm Warner Concert Hall, Oberlin Conservatory OH
curated concert of recent pieces by Eugene Kim

1. 14:18, 3 oct 2012
Tony Risotto, Sivan Silver-Swartz- guitars

2. viola/guitar
Carrie Frey- viola, Peter Kramer- guitar

3. for two attack instruments with long sustaining decay
Douglas Farrand, Porter James- pianos