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Young Producers Project

Young Producers Project (YPP) challenges youth to explore their environment and imagination through the lens of sound, creating innovative music projects based on those explorations. YPP’s participants work with media professionals as they develop high-level competency in audio technology, music production, and leadership. Using a hands-on participant-centered approach, our projects bring a critical ear to literature, technology, and politics, based on our belief that sound and music are essential tools to understand and effect positive change in an individual, neighborhood or society.

It is the vision of the Young Producer’s Project to develop innovative learning models by which a community of young people can use technology to re-connect with self and community, while gaining practical skills in music composition, audio technology and audio-journalism. Our approach combines the boundary-crossing art-music traditions of the Bang on a Can community with the music, poetry and voices of youth in New York City and around the world. The work youth create — music, documentary sound art, and multi-media work — is shared in live performances, websites, and international competitions. YPP participants are given the tools to re-imagine their environments, comment on the issues affecting them, exchange ideas and sounds with youth in other parts of their city and around the world, and develop professional competencies that will carry them forward as leaders in emerging professions in music, media and other socially engaged professions.

Young Producer’s Project was founded by Christopher Marianetti and Jeremy Thal. YPP is an educational project of Bang On A Can, a world-recognized music organization dedicated to commissioning, performing, creating, presenting, recording and teaching contemporary music. Recently YPP partnered with Carnegie's Hall'sWeill Music Institute as part of their Musical Connections program.