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News Fall 2013

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Had a great summer!

We kicked it off with “Voice Activate: New Music Flash Choir” — my event that I created for Make Music NY (6/21) at Newtown Creek Nature Walk, with guest singers/composers: Gisburg, Meghan Schubert, Kitty Brazelton, Robert Osborne, Bisan Toron, Leila Adu, Merche Blasco and Shelley Hirsch. Then I headed off to Shenandoah University to complete my training/certification with Jeanie Lovetri’s Somatic™ Voicework CCM Voice Pedagogy Institute.

Then it was off to Germany until end of summer — with concerts in Wuppertal, Kassel and several in Berlin (NK, TransArtFest, LoopHole Berlin..), as well as my one-day workshop “Interactive Sound Art” at TransArt Institute.

This fall will be very busy be singing with Barbez in their CD release party at Le Poisson Rouge, singing pieces by Yotam Haber and in a duet of the title track “Bella Ciao” with Shelley Hirsch. Then in the next few weeks, a few shows with some favorite duos — with Chuck Bettis at Panoply 10/18 and With Izzi Ramkissoon at Rutgers and CUNY Staten Island.

News Spring 2013

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Been super busy since January with local performances, but I did make a quick trip to Miami for a concert organized for the 12 nights festival and co-sponsored as part of the 23rd Subtropics festival.
(media coming soon!)

In April I’ll perform at NYC Electroacoustic Music Festival and also Anarko Festival on the same weekend, and later that same week once again with Hans Tammen’s Zavodnicks..

PLOrk (Princeton Laptop Orchestra) will perform a new work I have written for them related to my 8-channel “Audio Chandelier” pieces. And my own much newer laptop orchestra at NYU (NYLO) will perform at Spectrum on May 2nd.

and then in June, I will perform in Adam Kendall’s Toy Opera at Harvestworks.

Live Sound Processing workshop & concert May 12th (2012) at Harvestworks

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Live Sound Processing Strategies: A free workshop and concert at Harvestworks was on May 12th, 2012

Joining Dafna were masters in their craft: Robert Dick (flutes) and Satoshi Takeishi (percussion):

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This evening was created to explore and discuss various live sound processing strategies through performance, lecture and presentation, and will gave participants a foundation for developing their own work. The lecture/presentation was taught by Dafna Naphtali, who uses live sound processing in her work since 1995, and will began with a performance by a trio that included Robert Dick (flutes) and Satoshi Takeishi (percussion).
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Related show

  • Artist: Dafna Naphtali with Robert Dick and Satoshi Takeishi
  • Date: 05/12/12
  • Time: 7:00pm
  • Venue: Harvestworks
  • City: New York , NY
  • Address: 596 Broadway, Room 602
  • Venue phone: 212-431-1130
  • Country: United States
  • Admission: free
  • Age restrictions: All Ages
  • Box office: 212-431-1130
  • Notes: Live Sound Processing Strategies Dafna Naphtali with Robert Dick & Satoshi Takeishi Saturday, May 12, 7pm Subway: F/M/D/B Broadway/Lafayette, R Prince, 6 Bleeker “Live Sound Processing” is used to alter and affect the sounds of other instruments in performance, which in turn becomes its own unique voice in the musical process. Addressing the electroacoustic environment of the performance space allows for a site-specific version of the piece through a complex sampling and spatialization process. While the difference between live sound processing and other electronic music practices has perplexed the audiences in the past, these days the role of the live sound processor is much more understood. With faster laptops and more widespread use and availability of classic live sound processing as plugins, these techniques have gradually become more acceptable, and in some music genres practically expected. Both performers and audiences have become more savvy about the techniques and sounds.

News Winter 2012

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.. hibernating.. mixing an incredible backlog of projects and busy archiving old gems..

soon to be heard projects include:

  • Stabat Mom (What is it like to be a Bat?’s “new” piece)
  • Robotica (performance work — me with GuitarBot and percussion bots)
  • Panda Half-Life (my vocal sextet with electronics on the Tower of Babel..)
  • documentation of Fall performances

upcoming concerts– with Shelley Hirsch (3/31), and live sound processing festival in April (?) and beyond..

News Fall 2011

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read a new interview with me on Cycling ’74.com!

see/hear me at Vital Vox Festival November 5th !!

featured artist talk at Expo ’74 at NYU Poly October 16th

— Foundation of Contemporary Arts has awarded me funding to travel to Poland in November to perform at the long-running Audio Art Festival!!

 

 

News Winter 2010 / Spring 2011

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News Winter/Spring 2011
–January 9th — Magic Names performed an excerpt of Stimmung with choreographer Daria Fain
at Dance Theater Workshop — as part of the APAP conference.
Here is documentation of a performance at St. Mark’s Church in September
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This past winter, I was busily preparing for recording planned for the Spring, and also for a special performance of a piece I am developed with help from Franklin Furnace Fund —

March 26, 2011 — Music with a View with Robotica!!
video of the first workshop performance is here:

April 29th, 2011 — recording of Panda Half-Life (American Composers’ Forum Commission) at NYU’s Dolan Studios.    With Magic Names vocal sextet (Robert Osborne, Nick Hallett, Peter Sciscioli, Gisburg, Daisy Press)

New Instruments For Improvisation and Experimental Approaches 6/28/2010

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Symposium on June 28, 2010 at HERE ARTS CENTER, New York: New instruments for Improvisation and Experimental Approaches with Laetitia Sonami, Dafna Naphtali, Matthew Ostrowski and Hans Tammen

New Instruments For Improvisation And Experimental Approaches, an investigation into contemporary sound art and experimental music using custom made electronic instruments, will consider the methods and intentions of 4 artists building new instruments and specialized interfaces. In a day-long series of presentations, talks and performances these artists will discuss how their practice as improvisers, sound artists and experimental musicians lead to inventing their own tools, and how these inventions in turn influenced their musical performance techniques.

New Instruments for Improvisation and Experimental Approaches at HERE ARTS CENTER

Flickr photostream of event:  https://www.flickr.com/photos/harvestworks/8228050123/in/set-72157632128783264/lightbox

 

 

News: Spring 2010

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“Panda Half-Life”, my piece for Magic Names vocal sextet plus electronics premiered 6/17/11 at Issue Project Room  (plus we performed an excerpt from Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Stimmung!). Dense and sparse, composed and aleatoric, sung and wheezed.. with 6 singers, 15 audio speakers, 6 game controllers.

Made possible with funding from American Composers Forum and support from Harvestworks.

6/28/10 I participated in “New instruments for Improvisation and Experimental Approaches” a day-long symposium June 28th organized by Harvestworks. I will present projects created during my residency this year and perform as well. Also presenting / performing are Matthew Ostrowski, Hans Tammen, Laetitia Sonami.