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

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

“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.

Dafna Naphtali & LEMUR GuitarBot / PercussionBots May 2008

This performance was at Eric Singer’s space at the time LEMURPlex, as part of a residency there to create a project for GuitarBot and the PercussionBots.

In 2011, Dafna received Franklin Furnace Fund award 2011 to further develop this work, which was preformed March 26, 2011 at Flea Theater Music with a View, and later again in 2016 further developed and performed at Avant Music Fest using Nick Yulman’s instruments.

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