Panda Half-Life
Panda Half-Life (Dafna Naphtali, 2010, rev. 2014/2024).
for vocal sextet & electronics
Magic Names Vocal Ensemble:
Robert Osborne, Peter Sciscioli, Nick Hallett, Dafna Naphtali, Gisburg Smialek, Daisy Press. Dafna Naphtali, live electronics, voice processing.
Text excerpts from Genesis 11 story of Tower of Babel
(track 1)
v1: “Now the entire earth was of one language and uniform words”
v4: (the people said) “Come, let’s build ourselves a city,
and a tower with its top in the heavens,
and make ourselves a name”
(track 3)
v7: (God said) “Come, let us descend and confuse their language”
v9: “Therefore, He named it Babel.. and confused the language of the entire earth,
and scattered them upon the face of the entire earth.”
Commissioned by American Composers Forum (2009)
for Magic Names vocal ensemble. Dafna Naphtali, composer.
Recorded 2014 at NYU Dolan Studios
Dafna Naphtali – mixing, editing, electronics: (2014, 2024)
Charles Mueller – mixing, mastering (2024)
released June 8, 2026
Image: The Tower of Babel – Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1563) (via Wikimedia Commons)
Scatternet re-release on new compilation
no pulse __________only color — new compilation presented and curated by △ thoHk ▽
Gridlines dissolve. Time stops. This is a canvas of pure texture, frequency, and weightless gravity, where traditional rhythm is stripped away to expose the raw, vibrating spectrum of avant-garde sound. Six visionary composers, no pulse______only color.
Track 4: Dafna Naphtali – Scatternet (2016) [29:02 – 37:55] — Performed by Dafna Naphtali (voice, electronics, live sound processing) and originally released on the album Silver Shift. This track is a masterful study in real-time digital alchemy, using custom electronic patches to fragment and scatter her own voice across the stereo field, turning a human instrument into a complex, shimmering web of pure electronic color. full album here.
01. Katharina Klement – Vortex (2018/2021) [00:00 – 09:28]
02. Dganit Elyakim – One On 1.1 for metal percussion and electronics (2021) [09:29 – 17:56]
03. Alen Ilijic – sHe knows (2024–2026) [17:57 – 29:01]
04. Dafna Naphtali – Scatternet (2016)
05. Guy Barash – Proteus: Electric Monologue (2008–2009) [37:56 – 46:19]
06. Arie Shapira – Left-Right (1996/2000) [46:20 – 1:01:03] — A monumental electro-acoustic work from the late Israeli modernist master, originally featured on his retrospective album Electronics Plus and layered with text by poets Meir Wieseltier, Dan Pagis, Aryeh Sivan, Natan Zach, and Raya Harnik. Left-Right serves as a stark, dense sonic commentary on political polarisation, stripping away traditional harmony to expose the clashing, static friction of words, memory, and social structures.