Dafna Naphtali has been awarded 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship!
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced the 2023 Fellowships, and has awarded 171 artists, researchers, writers and others this prestigious award.
This is an outstanding opportunity and it is humbling to be included in this cohort of brilliant scholars and artists.
Sat, April 5th at Rocket Science Room, Montreal QC:
Dangertown: Dafna Naphtali (live electronics, voice), Hans Tammen (live electronics)
Pascal Boudreault (saxophone)
https://www.instagram.com/rocketscienceroom/
recent events:
Mon, Feb 10th at Striped Light series. Details to be announced, secret location.
Tues, Feb 4th 7:30pm at Downtown Music Gallery:
DAFNA NAPHTALI – Electronics-Voice / FORBES GRAHAM – Trumpet-Electronics
also playing: 6:30: RōNIN PHASING: patrick brennan – Solo Alto Sax,
8:30: JONATHAN RESIN – Tenor Sax / YONI KRETZMER – Tenor Sax / MICHAEL GILBERT – Bass / JARRED CHASE – Drums
Fri, Jan 31st 7:30pm at Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY): Magic Names vocal ensemble is reunited to sing Karlheinz Stockhausen’s “Stimmung” at : Gelsey Bell, soprano; Gisburg, soprano; Dafna Naphtali, alto; Nick Hallett, tenor; Peter Sciscioli, tenor; and Robert Osborne, bass. info:https://www.vassar.edu/news/events/2025/stimmung-1968-karlheinz-stockhausen
Sun, Jan 26th 6pm: performing with Hans Tammen’s Third Eye Electric Band at the
Miles in The Sky Festival #4 at Main Drag Music (Brooklyn, NY) Details here, tickets here.
Dafna has been featured in Composers Now IMPACT video series in May.
Composers Now empowers all living composers, celebrates the diversity of their voices and honors the significance of their artistic contributions to the cultural fabric of society. https://www.composersnow.org/
—- @dafnalula
—-@audiochandelier
In Oct/Nov I had the privilege to be a Fellow at MacDowell Artist Residency in Peterborough New Hampshire. I used the time to work on several different projects, including my 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship project, DUOS++OCTET which gathers all of my duo partners into a larger ensemble (the work was begun in my show at Roulette April 24th and is continuing)
I worked and created for 4 weeks, surrounded by beautiful trees in a peaceful (and quiet) environment, and in the company of, and inspired by the brilliant writers, filmmakers, choreographer and visual artists, I began composing and practicing and working toward what will be ultimately a primarily a solo guitar and voice album (to be named) inviting collaborators to join me on some tracks.
I also wrote poetry and took many many photos of trees some will become scores for future pieces, As seen below ;) Gratitude for the privilege, and the community and new friends and MacDowell.
a collaboration made possible by a commission from M3 Mutual Mentorship for Musicians.
“Wake Me When It’s Green” is a music and video composition and collaboration between Dafna Naphtali and violinist and composer Gwen Laster. Featuring Naphtali on voice, electric guitar and electronics, and Laster’s violin and spoken word. An homage to their recently departed fathers, it also a celebration of a sky filled with ancestors.
The piece was commissioned by M3 Mutual Mentorship for Musicians as part of the work of the Fall 2022 Equinox cohort. It premiered June 13th, 2023 at the National Jazz Museum of Harlem, along with 5 other commissions of duo pieces created by the cohort’s 12 members. More information about M3 and the Fall 2022 cohort can be found here:https://dafna.info/wp-admin/post.php?post=4473&action=edit
Created in Winter 2022, in a mostly remote collaboration based on their recordings, brought together in an in person recording session, mixing and editing by Naphtali, final mix/mastering -Andrya Ambro. video by Mariana Meraz using Naphtali & Laster’s family photos, and Naphtali’s photography (trees/shadows).
0’0″ (I will wait), 2’41” Wake Me When It’s Green, 4’58” ecstatic hocket & kaddish.
Below is the piece as it was broadcast on June 13th, 2023 along with an interview of me and Gwen.
To see all of the commissioned pieces by the cohort, watch from the beginning!
SEE WORKSAMPLES BELOW and at AudioChandelier.com
At a residency at APO-33 in Nantes, France, June/July 2023, Dafna created a multichannel audio/video piece with 10-channels of audio and 4-channel video for APO-33’s space at Platforme Intermédia.
“Audio Chandelier: Passeri”, reflects on changing patterns of bird migration, climate change and bird song. She gave a concert at the opening which overlapped with Nantes Maker Campus, the piece was installed for the rest of Summer 2023 on location.
AUDIO CHANDELIER WORKSAMPLES:
1) installation in Nantes, France 2) opening performance Nantes 3) explanatory video about Audio Chandelier projects https://youtu.be/z6pTfFDsBqU?si=RCPsZheK5g4jdFSt
SEE ALSO: AudioChandelier.com
performance at opening of installation July 2025:
DUOS++OCTET is an upcoming performance at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn, NY
bringing together Dafna Naphtali’s long-time duo partners, her live-sound-processing of her voice and their instruments, plus Dafna’s 8-channel Audio Chandelier in live performance.
April 24th, 8pm @Roulette Intermedium
tickets and info: https://roulette.org/event/dafna-naphtali-duosoctet/
Dafna Naphtali – live electroacoustics, voice
Jen Baker – trombone / multiphonics (Clip Mouth Unit)
Gordon Beeferman – organ/piano/toy piano (Pulsing Dot)
Chuck Bettis – electronics / throat
Ras Moshe Burnett – saxophones, flute
Hans Tammen – electronics, guitar
Edith Lettner – saxophones, duduk
Andrew Drury – percussion/drums
