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Totally forgot to boost this.  I was part of a really cool project all of 2013, where a jazz guitarist and composer Matt Davis would write a couple new tunes every month featuring a specific under-represented demographic in NYC.  Here is what he said:

This is music written about New York City. Every month of 2013 I spoke to different groups of people, recorded our conversations, wrote music based on the insights and stories they told me, and then rehearsed, recorded and performed the music with my group, Aerial Photograph. Here are the groups I spoke with:

Seniors/Elderly New Yorkers
Recovering Addicts/Alcoholics
Immigrants
Children
Religious Believers
Community Builders
Homeless people
Veterans
NYC Teachers
Incarcerated people
Caregivers
Artists and Musicians

By purchasing this series, you will get access to notes, scores, audio files, images and lots of other cool things.

Click here to buy the Album

Totally forgot to boost this.  I was part of a really cool project all of 2013, where a jazz guitarist and composer Matt Davis would write a couple new tunes every month featuring a specific under-represented demographic in NYC.  Here is what he said:

This is music written about New York City. Every month of 2013 I spoke to different groups of people, recorded our conversations, wrote music based on the insights and stories they told me, and then rehearsed, recorded and performed the music with my group, Aerial Photograph. Here are the groups I spoke with:

Seniors/Elderly New Yorkers
Recovering Addicts/Alcoholics
Immigrants
Children
Religious Believers
Community Builders
Homeless people
Veterans
NYC Teachers
Incarcerated people
Caregivers
Artists and Musicians

By purchasing this series, you will get access to notes, scores, audio files, images and lots of other cool things.

Click here to buy the Album

I’m really looking forward to working on the piece and ultimately the public component to this residency!

From the site:

Announcing Our 2014-15 EtM Con Edison Composers-in-Residence

David Johnston August 13, 2014

We are thrilled to announce the 2014-15 EtM Con Edison Resident Composers. Each composer will receive three months of residency space in a cultural facility in his/her borough of residence in addition to a $1250 stipend. The composer and host facility will also collaborate on presenting a public program for the community as the culmination of the residency.

Presenting the 2014-15 awardees and their host facilities:

Manhattan

Richard Carrick

Juan Pablo Contreras

Turtle Bay Music School

Eric Lemmon

Bloomingdale School of Music

Ian Ng

The Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School 

at Lighthouse Guild International

Brooklyn

Mary Kouyoumdjian

Matt McBane
Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy

Queens

Kento Iwasaki

Nina Siniakova

Flushing Town Hall