{"id":1037,"date":"2019-07-31T00:02:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T00:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.bxmc.poly.edu\/~moeezosaleem\/IDMTest\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:28:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:28:33","slug":"idm-alum-diana-castro-featured-for-her-mindful-accessories-and-design-label-ser-paraiso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/idm-alum-diana-castro-featured-for-her-mindful-accessories-and-design-label-ser-paraiso\/","title":{"rendered":"IDM Alum Diana Castro Featured for her Mindful Accessories and Design Label Ser Paraiso"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Diana Castro Sitting Cross Legged and Smiling \nPhoto by Itzel Alejandra Martinez for Remezcla<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Diana Castro an NYU IDM 2015 Alum has been doing amazing work in design, music, and tech. Her idea for Ser Paraiso<\/a> came about when she created a music box for meditation as her thesis at IDM. That’s when she started Ser Para\u00edso \u2014 formerly known as Magic Objects (2013) \u2014 as a project to make sound objects for spiritual purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Moon Soft Synth a soft circuit synthesizer handmade with fabric, yarn, mirrors and pompons by Diana Castro in collaboration with Javier Molina\n<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

She works in digital spaces where she designs web apps for music making with the MusEDLab<\/a> (NYU Music Experience Design Lab) as well as physical ones, for example with the electronic textile synthesizers she creates for her project M\u00e1gico Real, which explores shamanism, ritual, and identity through performance, new media and technology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paper MIDI made in collaboration in collaboration with MusEDLab and Novalia UK<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Her project Magico Real was recently featured in a remezcla article<\/a> where they discuss her history with art, music, and design. Her work threads along multiple mediums but always centers around her own embrace of healing, spirituality, and a desire to help people connect with their higher selves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Diana Castro’s notepads and notebooks
Photo by Itzel Alejandra Martinez for Remezcla<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

She has installation, album covers, and mixtapes that she uses to explore her creativity. You can find those works and more on her at her website: https:\/\/panali.cc\/.<\/a> or on her instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pana Li album art<\/a> for Turning Jewels into Water<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Diana Castro an NYU IDM 2015 Alum has been doing amazing work in design, music, and tech. Her idea for Ser Paraiso came about when she created a music box for meditation as her thesis at IDM. That’s when she started Ser Para\u00edso \u2014 formerly known as Magic Objects (2013) \u2014 as a project to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-get-to-know-idm","category-people"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}