Category Archives: Ensembles

What is it Like to be a Bat ?

Performer/composers Kitty Brazelton and Dafna Naphtali collaborate on a montage of extremes: textures hard/soft, noises white/red, harmony rooted/disembodied, silence. Both women sing with startling multi-octave ranges, Brazelton having honed her edge in rock bands since 1969, and in the 90′s … Continue reading →

Fusebox

Since the mid-90’s, Dafna’s been working on ways to incorporate live sound processing into improvised music with avant-jazz leanings.    Fusebox is her longtime collaboration with Ras Moshe, often includes bassist Shayna Dulberger, sometimes with drums/percussion (Andrew Drury and Jeff … Continue reading →

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mechanique(s)

Mechanique(s) is aleatoric/improvised electro-acoustic computer music using live electronics, prepared guitar, reeds and voice and drawing on many traditions in improvised and electronic music, investigating the overlap of various elements of the performers’ technical and aesthetic practices. In performance I … Continue reading →

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Chatter Blip

CHATTER BLIP is a duo performance piece by Chuck Bettis (electronics/voice and Dafna Naphtali (electronics/processing/voice) — an interstellar multi-character audio operetta involving a multitude of human, alien, and machine voices, in a mash-up of primal and classic sci-fi and electro-acoustics….. … Continue reading →

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