Dal Farra, Ricardo

Associate Professor 
 
Contact Information
Tel:  514-848-2424 ext. 4707
Email:  rdalfarr@alcor.concordia.ca
Office:  S-GM 500.19 

Dr. Ricardo Dal Farra has been conducting activities in the merging fields of arts, sciences and new technologies as a composer and multimedia artist, researcher, educator, performer and curator focusing mainly on electroacoustic music and new media arts for more than 25 years. Dr. Dal Farra holds a PhD in Etudes et pratiques des arts from Université du Québec à Montréal.

He has presented his music, new media works, research and educational developments at institutions such as Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, New York University, Dartmouth College, The Julliard School of Music and Brooklyn College in the United States; the University of Brasilia and Itaú Cultural in Brazil; the National Conservatory of Music of La Paz in Bolivia; the University of Puerto Rico; the University of Manchester and De Montfort University in the United Kingdom; Festival Internacional de la Imagen iand Museo Nacional in Colombia; International Festival of Modern Art in Ukraine; Festival Latinoamericano de Música in Venezuela; International Audio Visueel Experimenteel Festival in The Netherlands; International Festival of Contemporary Music in Turkey; Symposium on Music and Computers in Greece; Colloquio di Informatica Musicale in Italy; Computer Music Festival in Korea; Colegio de Compositores Latinoamericanos de Música de Arte in Mexico; National Museum of Contemporary Art in Norway; Universidad Católica, UNIACC University and ARCIS University in Chile; NYYD in Estonia; University of Sydney in Australia; Stockholmsfestivalen För ElektroAkustisk Musik in Sweden; Teatro Colón, Espacio Fundación Telefónica and National Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Argentina; Ontario College of Art & Design and The Banff Centre in Canada; and UNESCO and IRCAM in France.

Dr. 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 and the National Rostrum of Composers from Argentina, the Concours International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges, France, and the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale from the University of Padua in Italy, among others.

Dr. Dal Farra is also the Founding Director of Centro de Experimentación e Investigación en Artes Electrónicas - CEIArtE (Electronic Arts Experimenting and Research Centre) at National University of Tres de Febrero, Argentina; Associated Researcher at the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre, De Montfort Univerisity, United Kingdom; and Senior Consultant for the Amauta - Andean Media Arts Centre in Cusco, Peru. He has been national Coordinator of the Multimedia Communication program at the National Ministry of Education and Director of the Estudio de Música Electroacústica (Electroacoustic Music Lab) in Argentina; Research/Creation Coordinator of the Hexagram interuniversity consortium and Coordinator of the Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage (DOCAM) international research alliance in Canada. He also also has been consultant for organizations such as: The MIT Press in the US, the interuniversity project No2s in Chile; and consultant and researcher at The Daniel Langlois Foundation in Canada and UNESCO (Digi-Arts), France. 

Dr. Dal Farra's recent research projects have been focused on documentation and preservation of the electroacoustic music heritage, multimedia communication and educational resources, digital arts resources and virtual communities, as well as composition and media arts creation.

Music available for listening online

The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology

Concordia Archival Project

Selected Research Projects

Latin American Electroacoustic MusicCollection - The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology - Montreal, 2003-2005 and 2007-2008.

Historical aspects of Latin American Electroacoustic Music - UNESCO / Digi-Arts. France, 2002-2003.

EARS Glossary (Spanish version) - MTI, De Montfort University, UK.

Senior consultant for the Amauta Project in Cusco, Peru, since 2005.

Founding Director and principal researcher at Electronic Arts Experimenting Research Centre (CEIArtE-UNTreF) in Buenos Aires. Argentina, since 2002.

BaDArtE - electronic arts database (CEIArtE-UNTreF), Argentina.

redcatsur - a network of artists, scientists, engineers and theoreticians promoting collaboration in art, science and technology around Latin America.

National Ministry of Culture and Education, Argentina - multimedia communication, national standards for new media education,1996-2003.

National Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Argentina - REDI, multimedia educational resources, with GTZ, Germany, and Apple, USA, 2000-2001.

Selected Recordings

2009  North-South Project, Elektron Records (CD) Sweden. 

2006  Leonardo Music Journal Vol. 15, ISAST (CD) United States. 

2005  Memoria del I Festival de Música Electroacústica. (CD) Ecuador.

2004  Bonk, Bonk Festival of New Music (CD) United States.

2000  Computer Music Journal Vol. 23. The MIT Press (CD) United States.

1999  Bonk Thy Neighbor, Bonk Festival of New Music (CD) United States.

1998  Travels of the Spider, Pogus (CD) United States.

1998  Desde el otro lado - From the other side, o.o.discs (CD) United States.

1997  VOYS. A journal exploring sign in sound (CD) United States.

1997  The Frog Peak Collaborations Project, Frog Peak Music (CD) United States.

1997  ICMA Commission Awards 1994-96, CDCM - Centaur Records (CD) United States.

1994  Panorama de la Música Argentina [composers born 1957-58], National Endowment for the Arts (CD) Argentina.

1994  The Aerial #6, Nonsequitur/What Next? (CD) United States.

1994  Leonardo Music Journal Vol. 4, ISAST (CD) United States.

1991  Contemporary Music Review - Live Electronics (cassette) England.

1989  Música Argentina del Siglo XX - Arturo Gervasoni, Circe (cassette) Argentina. 

1988  Música Contemporánea Argentina, Argentina Music Council (cassette) Argentina.

1987  Música Electroacústica en Tiempo Real - Ricardo Dal Farra, IRCO (cassette) Argentina.

Selected Publications

2009  Alternative models for research/creation in the digital world. II Biennale Argentinean-Czech "e-Golems". Argentina.

2007  The Southern tip of the electroacoustic tradition. Circuit, musiques contemporaines. Canada.

2006  Something lost, something hidden, something found. Organised Sound. UK.

2006  A journey of sound through the electroacoustic wires. PhD Thesis, UQAM. Canada.

2005  'Play it again, South!' [Where all that music was before?] International Computer Music Conference. Spain.

2004  Educación a través de la comunicación multimedial como propuesta de cambio para la comunidad. VI Jornadas de Artes y Medios Digitales. Simposio: Prácticas de Comunicación Emergentes en la Cultura Digital. Córdoba, Argentina.

2004  Some recent actions to preserve, document and disseminate e/a music by Latin American composers. International Computer Music Conference. USA.

2003  An electroacoustic music collection project (or how to open the cage and let them fly). fineArt forum, vol.17-4. Australia.

2003  Módulos y Material de Apoyo para el Trayecto Técnico Profesional en Comunicación Multimedial (Ricardo Dal Farra, Coordinator), National Institute for Technology Education - National Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. Argentina.

2001  REDI. Multidisciplinary oriented electronic database with multimedia educational resources. (Project Director and Principal Researcher: Ricardo Dal Farra), National Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of Argentina, with support by the German Agency for Technology Education - GTZ and Apple, USA..

1998  Comunicación Multimedial (National standards for multimedia education: multimedia, image synthesis, video, design, sound and music). INET - National Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. Argentina.

1997  Music, New Technologies and Latin America. Proceedings of IV Simpósio Brasileiro de Computação e Música. Brazil.

1996  A Southerner's Perspective. Computer Music Journal vol. 20 number 3, The MIT Press. United States.

1996  Electroacoustic and computer music in Latin America. 1996 International Computer Music Conference. Hong-Kong,

1994  Some comments about electroacoustic music (and life) in Latin America. Leonardo Music Journal Vol. 4. United States.

1993  Un Proyecto Educativo Integrador: Producción Musical. Proceedings of VI Tribuna de Música de América Latina y el Caribe - Trimalca. Argentina.