Let's Make Music! by Young Producers Group
K-12 students will work with music producer and educator Lawrence Grey to write an original song. Participants will learn about music production and have fun making music! Visit soundcloud.com/youngproducersgroup to hear examples from past workshops.
What inspired you to make this project?:
Music technology has the potential to bring young people together across the socioeconomic lines that so often keep young people apart. Also, arts education in public schools is in a state of crisis. The low cost and wide availability of music production tools can make a real dent in that!
Saturday, December 7
LOCATION: ERTCTIME: 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Maker
Lawrence Grey
Producer and educator Lawrence Grey was inspired to create Young Producers Group (YPG) after working with the youth at an alternatives to incarceration center in Brooklyn called the Center for Community Alternatives (CCA). In the studio at CCA, the only thing that mattered was how committed and focused someone was to their music. Socioeconomic backgrounds and life experiences, usually things that keep people apart, served as creative tools to bring people together. This experience had a profound impact on Lawrence, inspiring him to go to UCLA and get a masters degree in education. Having received a Bachelor's degree in music from NYU with a focus on electronic music composition, he was in a unique position to create YPG. Today, YPG works in 15 K-12 schools and several nonprofits across Los Angeles.