Brad Farberman Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

As the immersive audio curator at Tidal, I create custom playlists in Dolby Atmos, 360 Reality Audio, and MQA (Master Quality Authenticated). Themes run the gamut from artist discographies to holidays and events. For each playlist, I also select cover images and write copy.

Brooklyn, New York

• My funk-jazz group, Middle Blue, holds a monthly residency at Troost, and has toured the Northeast (Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, upstate New York). Our debut album was released on Ropeadope in March 2018.
• Appeared at esteemed New York music venues including Le Poisson Rouge, the Knitting Factory, Lincoln Center, and the Bitter End.
• Performed and/or recorded with musicians of note including drummer Mike Clark, bassist William Parker, violinist Jason Kao Hwang, and composer Rhys Chatham.

Brooklyn, New York

Since 2004, I have written for magazines, newspapers, and websites including Rolling Stone, the New York Times, NPR, the Village Voice, Time Out New York, Wax Poetics, JazzTimes, DownBeat, the New York City Jazz Record, Relix, jazz.com, and bluenote.com.

New York, United States

Studied Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and React.Final Project: NotesBookNotesBook is an online notebook for storing music thoughts on the go. Users upload album art, various album details (artist, title, release year), and original text.Implemented using a Rails backend and React frontend.There was no digital notebook expressly for music, so I wanted to fill.

New York, NY

At Jetblack, a wing of Jet.com, my chief responsibility was seeing that products from outside sources were received smoothly by our company. Those products were then delivered to customers. As a lead, I managed one person who performed similar duties.

New York, NY

Brooklyn, NY

• Wrote for Spotify’s “Behind the Lyrics” feature—the option displays text while you listen to select songs. This entailed researching and explaining the stories behind songs, and syncing lyrics so they appeared exactly.
• Pitched and authored music articles on a range of hip-hop and R&B artists, from Drake to Solange.
• Researched and wrote text for several “Rewind” videos, which examine an artist’s entire career.

New Brunswick, New Jersey

• Courses taught: Expository Writing (English 101), Research in the Disciplines (English 201), Introduction to Multimedia Composition (English 209), and Music Journalism (English 305).
• Taught with Rutgers Future Scholars, a summer program for underprivileged youth, from 2010 to 2015. Courses taught in RFS: Expository Writing, Composition and New Media, Public Speaking, and Music.

Brooklyn, NY

• Proofed and fact-checked
• Wrote articles
• Hired and managed an intern

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Jazz History And Research

Software Engineering

Studied Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and React. Built apps and learned to pair-program.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Journalism