DOUGLAS FARRAND (Co-Director of Music City program) is a composer, musician, and educator concerned with developing practices that invite us to explore our myriad processes of listening and embody a collective investigation of place, community, and personhood. He works in contexts including experimental music, youth education, and the application of sound and listening practices to pedagogy and place-based organizing. Douglas is the Music City Co-Director at the University of Orange since 2016, and Director of Sonic Explorations, a youth music education program in Orange’s east ward, since 2013. He is a founding member of LCollective, a Brooklyn-based experimental music collective, and sustains active collaborations with filmmakers, poets, musicians, and educators in Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Cleveland, and Stockholm.