About Us

The Bang on a Can Young Producer’s Project (YPP) is a mobile production crew that designs and implements innovative audio-music projects for young people.

We believe that the art of listening extends far beyond the practice of making music — it is one of the major ways we can become aware of what is happening in our communities, the mood of a place, what has been there before and what will come after. Youth are often most viscerally aware of the issues facing our communities, ranging from violence to air pollution to social injustice. They are also tapped in to the good stuff happening on the ground: the newest developments in music, dance and technology. We give our students the skills to more deeply listen to the sounds of their communities and provide them with the means of turning those sounds into an expression of their experience, emotion, and vision.

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