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Ricardo Dal Farra
| Ricardo Dal Farra National University Tres de Febrero AzcuÈnaga 2764 - Martinez 1640 Buenos Aires - Argentina Tel: (54-11) 4553-3015 Email: ricardo@dalfarra.com.ar ricardo.dalfarra@gmail.com |
Ricardo Dal Farra (b. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1957) has been
conducting activities in the merging fields of arts, sciences and new
technologies for more than 25 years as composer, multimedia artist,
educator, researcher, performer and curator. He holds a Ph.D. in arts
from the UniversitÈ du QuÈbec ý Montréal.
Dal Farra is the founding director of the Electronic Arts Experimentation and Research Centre (CEIArtE) at the National University Tres de Febrero (UNTREF) in Buenos Aires and professor of media arts and music technology at the same university; Research/Creation Coordinator at Hexagram - Research/Creation Institute in Media Arts and Technologies in Montreal; Associated Researcher at Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre, De Montfort University in England; and Senior Consultant at Amauta Cusco - Andean Media Arts Centre in Peru. He has been also Coordinator of the Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage (DOCAM) international research alliance (Montreal, 2005); official representative for the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology (Montreal, 2004); director of the Multimedia Communication national program at the National Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (Buenos Aires, 1996-2003); Consultant/Director of the Musical Production specialty at ORT Technical School (Buenos Aires, 1992--1999); co-director of the Electronic Music Lab at the Argentina Society for Music Education (Buenos Aires, 1984-1994); director of the Electroacoustic Music Studio (Buenos Aires, 1978-2003); and consultant/researcher for the UNESCO Digi-Arts project (2002-2003). Dal Farra has been professor of electroacoustics at the Buenos Aires Municipal Music Conservatory; professor of composition and improvisation at the National University of San Martin; professor of multimedia at IMD Institute and ORT Technical School; professor of music and sound on films at the Art Panamerican School; and professor of acoustics at the National Conservatory of Music in Argentina. He has also been designing university, college and high school educational programs integrating arts, sciences and new technologies, like the Electronic Arts Bachelor Program for the National University Tres de Febrero. Mr. Dal Farra has been the project manager for interdisciplinary educational projects (e.g. web-based educational resources) involving national and international agencies and educational organizations, and was the national manager on education and new technologies for NCS Pearson in Argentina. His recent research projects have been focused on new media arts (Multimedia Communication, national standards for multimedia education - National Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Argentina, 1996-2003; and REDI, multimedia educational resources, National Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Argentina, with support by GTZ, Germany, and Apple Computer, United States, 2000-2001) and also on the history and preservation of electroacoustic music (UNESCO, 2002-2003; The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, Montreal, 2003-2004 and 2007; and Ph.D. thesis, UQAM, Montreal, 2006). Dal Farra's electroacoustic, mixed music and new media works have been performed in concerts and symposiums in more than 40 countries. His music has been featured in 17 recordings (by Frog Peak Music, Computer Music Journal, Bonk, Leonardo Music Journal, The Aerial, Pogus, CDCM-Centaur, O.O. Discs, Contemporary Music Review, Fondo Nacional de las Artes-Argentina, Consejo Argentino de la Musica, Circe, IRCO, etc). He has also performed using live interactive systems since the late 1970s. Dal Farra's work has been distinguished with grants and commissions by the International Computer Music Association; the International Arts Biennial of San Pablo, Brazil; the National Endowment for the Arts from Argentina; the Concours International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges, France; the National Rostrum of Composers, Argentina; and the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale of the University of Padua, Italy, among others. He has been invited to present his music, research and educational developments in institutions such as: CCRMA - Stanford University, New York University, Dartmouth College, The Julliard School of Music and Brooklyn College in the United States; the University of Brasilia and Ita™ Cultural in Brazil; Mantis - The University of Manchester and MTI - De Montfort University in England; the National Conservatory of Music of La Paz in Bolivia; Seminario Internacional de ComposiciÛn in Costa Rica; the University of Puerto Rico; IRCAM and GRM in France; and Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) and The Banff Centre in Canada. Dr. Dal Farra directed radio series on electroacoustic music at the National Radio of Argentina and the Municipal Radio of Buenos Aires for more than 10 years. He also curated several CDs, like those published by: Leonardo Music Journal in 1994; O.O. Discs in 1998; and The MIT Press's Computer Music Journal in 1999. Dal Farra is a Fellow of Colegio de Compositores Latinoamericanos de M™sica de Arte, and an active member of the Board of Advisory Editors for the Journal of New Music Research, The Netherlands, since 1988; the International Editorial Board of Leonardo Music Journal since 1995 and Leonardo's International Advisory Board since 2007; the Executive Editorial Group of Electronic Music Foundation's EMF Institute, United States; the Research Reviewing Committe for the journal Perspectiva Interdisciplinaria de Musica, published by the Mexican National Autonomous University and the Mexican Academy of Sciences, Arts, Technology and Humanities; and the Advisory Board of Prague's CIANT Gallery, International Centre for Art and New Technologies, Czech Republic. Some of his projects are available online at: Latin American Electroacoustic Music Collection - The Daniel Langlois Foundation: http://www.fondation-langlois.org/flash/e/stage.php?NumPage=542 Historical aspects of Latin American Electroacoustic Music - UNESCO / Digi-Arts: http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=15191&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html EARS (Spanish version) - De Montfort University: http://www.ears.dmu.ac.uk/rubriqueGlossaryES.php3 Electroacoustic music by R. Dal Farra - Tierra y Sol (1996), International Computer Music Association commission-award: http://www.fondation-langlois.org/flash/e/index.php?NumObjet=15990%26NumPage=556 | |
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