{"id":1428,"date":"2013-01-28T13:31:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2013-01-28T13:31:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:31:58","slug":"oakland-north-todays-future-sound-teaches-kids-coping-skills-with-a-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2013\/01\/28\/oakland-north-todays-future-sound-teaches-kids-coping-skills-with-a-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland North: Today\u2019s Future Sound teaches kids coping skills \u2026 with a beat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/oaklandnorth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/GANN_DeLeon-620x452.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Elliot Gann and a student work on beat making at a workshop in San Jose. Photo by Carlos De Leon.\" width=\"620\" height=\"452\" \/>By Justin Richmond<br \/>\nJanuary 16, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Elliot Gann is standing in front of his beat-up and stickered black Mazda Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 in the parking lot of West Oakland Middle School. In his left ear is a Bluetooth earpiece, which, as he eats a Trader Joes sandwich wrap, enables him to lament to a friend the parking ticket he just received. To his side is a worn green Atlantic suitcase that wobbles with a broken wheel. Inside, its contents are packed tight: two sets of studio monitors, two audio interfaces, wires, cables, and cords, and a few MIDI controllers. All of these tools he needs to conduct the workshops he puts on several times a week in Bay Area middle schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr. Elliot,\u201d as the children he teaches affectionately call him, is the founder of Today\u2019s Future Sound, a non-profit he started seven months ago to serve under-privileged youth by teaching them music production skills, or beat making. Gann, who received his Ph.D. in psychology from the Wright Institute in 2010, views his service as an alternative to traditional psychology. \u201cIt\u2019s an effective way to deliver services that maybe a traditional therapist can\u2019t,\u201d says Gann. What he seeks to accomplish with his non-profit is not simply to improve kids\u2019 music skills, but also to help their own personal development. \u201cIt\u2019s teaching kids coping mechanisms. It\u2019s teaching them to regulate themselves,\u201d says Gann. \u201cI think it\u2019s a really healthy way to help kids process trauma.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oaklandnorth.net\/2013\/01\/16\/todays-future-sound-teaches-kids-coping-skills-with-a-beat\/\" target=\"_blank\">To read more. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Justin Richmond January 16, 2013 Dr. Elliot Gann is standing in front of his beat-up and stickered black Mazda Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 in the parking lot of West Oakland Middle School. In his left ear is a Bluetooth earpiece, which, as he eats a Trader Joes sandwich wrap, enables him to lament to a friend the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2013\/01\/28\/oakland-north-todays-future-sound-teaches-kids-coping-skills-with-a-beat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oakland North: Today\u2019s Future Sound teaches kids coping skills \u2026 with a beat<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[77,80,99],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-1428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kqed_research_local_ag","tag-kqed","tag-kqed-american-graduate","tag-oakland"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"template_type":null,"featured_image_type":null,"is_audio_post":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"affiliates","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliates?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programs?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"collections","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collections?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"interests","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interests?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}