studio concerts are hosted in my studio in newark nj unless otherwise noted. email me at dougfarrand at gmail dot com if you’d like to be on the invite list. they usually feature one to two sets (can be music or readings or lectures or screenings or…) as well as a meal.
2025 Spring Series
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2024 Spring Series
#5 3/14/2024 piano recital - kingston ny
douglas farrand played music by erik satie (ogives), federic mompou (musica callada 1, 4, 15), todd molenberg (leg of lamb), franz schubert (piano sonata 20, ii)
in attendance: d m b s j k +3
#4 1/28/2024 Shadow Seminar - a duet of Lucie Vitkova and Teerapat Parmongkol
"Lucie Vítková and Teerapat Parmongkol met in May 2021 in New York to improvise and record music, using the instrumentation of an electric guitar (Parnmongkol) and synthesizer (KORG Volca Bass), harmonica, hichiriki, and voice (Vítková). Since then, they have performed under the name Seminar Shadow, a duet whirling in a seminar (sonic) shadow, dancing themselves in continuous inconsistency between being and becoming.”
rice and beans, lemon marmalade
in attendance: y m a g s +1 d t l j b
2023 Spring Series
#3 6/4/2023 mark so
Mark So - reading & writing alongside “Los Angeles Work” by Mark So & Manfred Werder
rice and beans and guacamole, vino verde, gin, krispy kreme donuts
in attendance: d m m g
#2 5/10/2023 margaux simmons
Margaux Simmons - two improvisations
Margaux Simmons & Douglas Farrand - correspondences
focaccia and platzke (greek white bean dish)
in attendance: d m k m b j a
#1 3/2/2023 luke martin & phoenix herring & vincenzo johnson
luke martin "an inconsistent latency”
played by luke and douglas, e-guitar, trumpet, cassette tape, whistling
phoenix herring & vincenzo johnson - 2_21_23_New_York_City for amplified sheet metal, stylus, electronics.
brown rice, chole masala, seltzer, beer
wayne shorter passed. 22° winter halo around the moon after the show. the studio is a few blocks north east from where Wayne Shorter grew up. looking at the moon halo we were facing the direction of Wayne Shorter’s childhood home.
in attendance: d l p v i b a m b j m