Gideon D’Arcangelo CV
Gideon D’Arcangelo is an interactive media designer with a special focus on the intersection of new technology and musical experience. He created the Listening In series on “Weekend America.” From 2002-2005, he produced the “Walkman Busting” radio documentary series on Public Radio International’s “The Next Big Thing.” He occasionally reports on music and technology for American Public Media’s “Marketplace.” With ESI Design, his recent design projects include the Action Center to End World Hunger for Mercy Corps, opening in New York, NY October 2008; new experiential retail concept stores for Best Buy, the Children’s Museum of Los Angeles, and the Reuters Sign at Three Times Square.
He teaches at the Interactive Telecommunications Program in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He is an active member in the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) community. In the 1990’s, he worked with ethnomusicologist and folklorist Alan Lomax on the Global Jukebox, an illustrated database of world song and dance styles. He is currently on the board of the Association for Cultural Equity, the foundation founded by Alan Lomax. Recent writings include “Recycling Music, Answering Back: Toward an Oral Tradition of Electronic Music” (NIME 2004 Proceedings) and “Alan Lomax and the Big Story of Song,” (Rounder Records CD1863). He has a BA in Music with Special Honors from the University of Chicago.
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