Lecturing at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada 2012

David A. Jaffe presenting a lecture entitled "Composing, Computers and Creativity" at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada, November 2012.

Overlooking Tilden Park

To find solitude while composing, David A. Jaffe frequently wanders the East Bay hills of Tilden Park.

With Mandolin

David A. Jaffe with mandolin

With Mandocello

Headshot

Berkeley, California, 2012

With the Russian National Orchestra Bass Quintet

David A. Jaffe describes his work "Who's on First?" at a concert by the Russian National Orchestra Bass Quintet, at Villa Montalvo in Los Gatos, California

Concert at Open Space gallery, Victoria, BC, Canada, 2013

Performing "Wildlife" with Andrew Schloss

David A. Jaffe plays a Zeta electronic violin, while Andrew Schloss plays a Radiodrum. Data from both performers intermingles and controls semi-autonomous processes on two computers.

With Friction Quartet

At the Bamfield Music By the Sea Festival, B.C., Canada

With composer Jason Moran, 2011 Other Minds festival, San Francisco

With composer Henry Brant, in Santa Barbara (1981)

with bluegrass legend Vassar Clements, Calloway, MD., 1974

On stage with bluegrass legend Vassar Clements, after a night of very little sleep. Take-it-easy-ranch, Calloway, MD. At a Carleton Haney bluegrass festival.

September, 1974

With computer music pioneer Andy Moorer, CCRMA, Stanford

With composer Charles Amirkhanian at the Djerassi Foundation

With Composer Leland Smith at CCRMA, Stanford University

Leland Smith was the first to program computers to do music type setting. He also wrote SCORE, the first composing (as opposed to synthesis) language for computer music.

Lecturing at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada, November 2012

With Afro-cuban jazz pianist Hilario Durán, New York City

With composer Kui Dong at CCRMA, Stanford

With composer Louis Andriessen, at the 2011 Other Minds Festival, San Francisco

At the Bamfield Music by the Sea festival, British Columbia, Canada

With violinist Ann Elliot-Goldschmid and pianist Marc Ryser, Bamfield, Canada

2011 Other Minds Festival Composers, Djerassi Foundation

With composer Kyle Gann, at the 2011 Other Minds Festival, San Francisco

With Leon Theremin, Max Mathews, Robert Moog, Tom Oberheim, Roger Linn, Paul Lansky, John Chowning, Dave Smith, Don Buchla, David Wessel, Andrew Schloss, etc. 1991

With Leon Theremin, Max Mathews, Robert Moog, Tom Oberheim, Roger Linn, Paul Lansky, John Chowning, Dave Smith, Don Buchla, David Wessel, Andrew Schloss, etc. CCRMA, Stanford University, 1991

With Lafayette String Quartet at performance of Fox Hollow, Berkeley, CA (2014)

Performing with percussionist/composer Andrew Schloss, U.C. Irvine, CA.

Other Minds Composers, 20th Anniversary celebration, 2015

Photo by Tom Steeland. 20th Anniversary celebration of Other Minds. Myra Melford, Wendy Reid, Lisa Bielawa, Ellen Fullman, Dan Becker, David Aaron Jaffe, Jon Raskin, David Tanenbaum, Kathy Hinde, Nafisa Hafez Modirzadeh, Paul Dresher, John Kennedy, Amy X Neuburg, Pauline Oliveros, Donald Swearingen, Linda Bouchard, Don Byron, Miya Masaoka, Pauline Oliveros, Mark Appelbaum, Errollyn Wallen, Charles Amirkhanian, Pamela Z, Maja S. K. Ratkje, Frode Haltli, George Lewis, Carl Stone, Paul Dresher and John Kennedy

With sound artist Trimpin at his studio in Seattle

with Gareth Loy, John Chowning, Tim Stillson, John Snell, Johannes Goebel, Stanford University

with Gareth Loy, John Chowning, Tim Stillson, John Snell, Johannes Goebel, Stanford University

With composer Jean-Claude Risset

With violinist/composer Mari Kimura, CCRMA, Stanford

Abraham Jaffe (my grandfather)

My grandfather, Abraham Jaffe, ca. 1930 (?) playing the Gibson A4 mandolin I inherited

With composer Joel Chadabe, New York City

Sol S. Jaffe (my father) on left, 1936

Cluck Old Hen Variations, for solo violin

The Library of Babel, for two marimbas

Congregations, for eight cellos

SF Itinerary, for string orchestra

Damp Nights in Drafty Mote, for bassoon and double bass

Dybbuk, for 2 violins, viola, clarinet, piano

Impossible Animals, for violin and computer voices

String Quartet for Violin and Viola

Fox Hollow, for string quartet