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AudioFile: For People Who Love Music
The Horizons Unlimited DJ Project
See how a grassroots organization is giving inner-city kids the tools
and creative skills to become DJs, rappers, and musicians.
Air Date: Thursday 3/28/02
By AudioFile staff
March 28, 2002
Given the prevalence of gangs, drugs, and crime in even the smallest
US cities, kids don't have to travel far to find a world of negative
distractions. Luckily for one San Francisco neighborhood, kids are
finding a creative way to focus their energies -- by making urban
electronic music.
Founded in November 2000, the Horizons Unlimited DJ Project is headed
by its program director Jeff Feinman.
"The DJ Project is basically a youth-driven music program that
uses music and taps into the youths' interest in music to create positive
life choices for the kids and to give them training and technology,
and project management and different job-readiness skills," Feinman
says.
"Juan Guillermo was the first member of the DJ Project. I saw
Juan go from 'Hey, how do I turn on this record player, how do I handle
these records?' to creating his own compositions from start to finish."
Guillermo says, "All the software and all the equipment that
you learn in four years of music school, I learned in just two years
of the DJ project."
And as the students' knowledge grows, so must the DJ Project. The
organization accepts donations of cash, musical gear, computer equipment,
software and Internet access, furniture, and more. It is also looking
for musicians and computer and music techs to volunteer. To make a
donation, to volunteer, or to find out more about the project, here
is the contact info:
The DJ Project
Jeff Feinman, program director
440 Potrero Avenue
San Francisco, California 94110
415.487.6714
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