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Another odd, small, flatulent, cheerful piece of music. Two slow chorales, in oblique canon.
Aaron Plourde (trumpet), Katie Robertstad (trombone), and Cariad Zinky (piano)

trio (trumpet, trombone, piano)

a mostly open string pieces for guitar in DACFBE scordatura
recorded by Porter James (Boston MA)

oatmeal piece for porter james

best heard on headphones or good speakers

recording of performance on Friday January 29th, 2016 ~8:20pm CST at High Concept Labs in Chicago IL. 

BELLS AT SEA (2014) for voice, two wind instruments, bowed string instrument, percussion, sine-tones, and found field recordings. Text from Robert Grenier's SENTENCES.
performed by Jessie Downs, Zachary Good, Ryan Zerna, Myra Hinrichs, Ryan Packard, & Douglas Farrand.
recorded by David Zuchowski.

BELLS AT SEA

some chords
quiet playback volume recommended 

composed february 2016 in buffalo ny and west orange nj
premiered may 8th 2016 at Rust Belt Books, Buffalo NY
Jessie Downs (dulcimer), Derick Evans (bass guitar), Douglas Farrand (guitar, composition), Zane Merritt (electric guitar), Katie Weissman (violoncello)

some chords (february 2016)

last 15 minutes from an hour long realisation of 'discrete species', interspersed with solo improvisations

performed by Christian Smith- December 4th 2015 - Flatterschaf, Basel, Switzerland

'discrete species - late winter - percussion solo' (2011-present) is an ongoing collaboration between christian smith and douglas farrand

christian smith & douglas farrand - discrete species - late winter - percussion solo

two rehearsal recordings of 'piano piece - 75 chords' at the same time, excerpted

recorded at the HUUB in Orange NJ.

'piano piece - 75 chords' is made from the names of and dedicated to: Rachel Bland, Mindy Fullilove, Molly Rose Kaufman, Aubrey Murdock, Jared Fontaine, Stephen Batiz, Timothy Leonard, Queen Mother Imakhu, Ignacio Angulo-Pizarro, Robert Pettit, Cesar Presa, Larry Willis, Naeema Campbell, Krystal Lemonias, Khari Ricks, Charlie Wirene, Ray Sykes, Patricia Rogers, Frank Barszcz, Rehanna Azimi, Lily Johnson, Margaux Simmons, Jamy Lasell, Michael Malbrough.

piano piece - october 2016

duets for simple patterns of guitar harmonics and the trees and traffic on walnut street

November 11th 2016

recorded by Jeff Weston
for contrabass with optional accompaniment
highly recommended listening on good headphones in a quiet environment. Jeff's realization is rather quiet and subtle
image - Dendrites of pyramidal neurons of the rabbit cerebral cortex drawn by Santiago Ramón y Cajal

leaf sound / wave sound (realization by Jeff Weston)

perf. by Ordinary Affects
Morgan Evans-Weiler (violin), Jordan Dykstra (viola, pitch pipe, stones, cassette tape), Laura Cetilia (cello), Luke Martin (e-guitar, cassette tape), James Falzone (vibraphone), Douglas Farrand (melodica, stones, cassette tape)

image from a fox shrine in a toilet in a cafe in Nottingham.

August 2017 (2)

Performed in Brooklyn, December 2017
by Marija Ilic, Danica Borisavljevic, Douglas Farrand, Assaf Gidron, Torin Geller, Jesse Greenberg and Teodora Stepancic

Keyboards in December 2017

v rough recording of melodica quartet
june 2018 recording of score written in august 2017

practicing playing melodica quietly

realized by Jesse Greenberg, Lucie Vítková, Matt Lau, Ofir Klemperer, Teodora Stepancic, Douglas Farrand, & Assaf Gidron @ Spectrum NYC on January 19th 2019 at ~10:15PM. recorded by Matt Lau.

a harmony of many ears following the line, close to the ground or from a distance, barely hearing a vigorous buffeting of grasses and the laying of petals, one at a time, in the midst of it all.

a septet - January 2019

full albums at Love Records:
https://lcollective.bandcamp.com/album/piano-6
https://lcollective.bandcamp.com/album/all-about-the-piano-tape-artifacts

for piano and assistants
Performed at Piano+ No. 6 on April 13th 2018 at Spectrum, Brooklyn
piano: Teodora Stepančić
assistants: Douglas Farrand, Assaf Gidron and Jesse Greenberg on tape recorders, mobile phones, computer, speakers

John Lely: All about the Piano

Performed by LCollective and Ordinary Affects
Laura Cetilia - cello
Morgan Evans-Weiler - violin
JPA Falzone - rhodes
Douglas Farrand - trumpet
Assaf Gidron - keyboards
Jesse Greenberg - radio package
Matt Lau - guitar
Luke Martin - e-guitar
Teodora Stepancic - keyboards

Teodora Stepancic: Line 3

Performed by LCollective and Ordinary Affects
Morgan Evans-Weiler - violin
Laura Cetilia - cello
JPA Falzone - rhodes 
Luke Martin - e-guitar
Douglas Farrand - trumpet

OA by Teodora Stepancic

performed by LCollective and Elliot Simpson at piano+ #11 at Spectrum

Maya Verlaak: Evidence-based

A and B side of a C60 cassette tape superimposed. Recordings made in Newark NJ in late March, 2020. Title from 'On Leaving Town' by Alan Dugan.

glass armor in rock war

"Between enthusiasm and scientific criticism one could find countless shades of opinion if one followed the history of ornithology." (Gaston Bachelard, Poetics of Space)

This solo for organ is a mutating passacaglia wherein all 126 5-note chords of an enneatonic collection are organised into 14 9-chord progressions, each progression slightly different from the one before it. As the register of the piece descends, its harmonic rhythm slows and evens out, a sort of unravelling. In doing so the piece traverses a trajectory from a clearer melodic character and profile towards an errant sequence of different sounds- harmony, timbre and time collapsing into a series of consistencies and textures- a distinctly different melodic paradigm.

written for and performed by Justin Murphy-Mancini on the Flentrop organ in Warner Concert Hall, Oberlin, OH.

Version of the piece prepared by April 21st 2013, a few minor revisions pending.
Many low frequencies, a good deal of which are present on the recording: listening on good headphones/speakers recommended. 

dougfarrand

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