Liminal Instruments
ITP Alum Marco Guarino has opened a show called "Liminal Instruments: An Interactive Exhibition on the Present and Future of Music Technology", featuring the work of fellow ITP Alumni and Students.
Opening Reception, July 7th
Exhibition July 8th-July 14th
Diana Castro, Panelist - Diana is a Brooklyn-based designer, currently working as Lead Designer at the NYU Music Experience Design Lab and as adjunct faculty in the Music Tech program, teaching Design for Music Experiences. She has worked on digital design, identity design, music web apps design, exhibition/museum design, digital media.
R. Luke DuBois, Panelist - Luke is a composer, artist, and performer who explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University, and has lectured and taught worldwide on interactive sound and video performance. He has collaborated on interactive performance, installation, and music production work with many artists and organizations including Toni Dove, Todd Reynolds, Jamie Jewett, Bora Yoon, Michael Joaquin Grey, Matthew Ritchie, Elliott Sharp, Michael Gordon, Maya Lin, Bang on a Can, Engine 27, Harvestworks, and LEMUR, and was the director of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra for its 2007 season.
Marco F. Guarino, Curator/Moderator - Marco is a graduate of NYU/Tisch's masters program in Interactive Telecommunications (ITP), where he concentrated on designing and building musical experiences with creative coding, UX, and fabrication processes. He received his B.A in Sociology and Latin American Studies from Kean University in 2010, and has worked on recording projects in Uruguay and Cuba. Currently, he is working on a data set on Candombe (Afro-Uruguayan music and dance.) He is interested in finding new ways of telling ethnomusicological stories with modern tools.
Dafna L Naphtali, Panelist - Dafna is a singer/instrumentalist/electronic-musician who composes/performs experimental, interactive electro-acoustic music. For 20+ years, drawing on a wide-ranging musical background in jazz, classical, rock and near-eastern music and using her custom Max/MSP programming, she’s performed in the US, Canada, Europe, India, Russia and the Middle East, with current projects also including: “Audio Chandelier”, multi-channel audio piece presented in US, Berlin, and Montreal (IX Symposium 2017 @Satosphére); “Robotica” (music robots and voice) at Avant Music Fest ’16 and continuing ; “Walkie Talkie Dream Angles”, an “Audio Augmented-reality” sound walk and personalized interactive composition written for NY’s Washington Square Park, and a new walk “Walkie Talkie Dream Garden” to be premiered in June 2018 for the waterfront area of Williamsburg Brooklyn.
Tlacael Esparza, Panelist - Tlacael is a co-founder of the music tech start-up Sunhouse and creator of Sensory Percussion, a radically new system for expressive electronic percussion being used on stages and in studios around the world. Tlacael is a Los Angeles native, based in New York City, and a professional drummer with over fifteen years of experience and a background in mathematics and machine audition. With Sunhouse, he is dedicated to building a future where music technology supports musicians and their creative endeavors.