The show, curated by Meira Asher, based in Israel is 59 minutes of Dafna Naphtali’s recent works including a new Radio Art piece “All the News, All the Time”.
The show is archived at https://www.mixcloud.com/radioart106/ra106fm_82_dafna-naphtali/
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Screen Compositions 13 at Experimental Intermedia 3/14/17
My new video “Blaafarveværket” using video synthesis materials I created during my residency at Signal Culture (June 2016), is finished with aleatoric presentation and audio synthesis by Hans Tammen. Blaafarveværket (“Blue Color Works”), in Norway, produced most of the world’s cobalt blue dye in 19th century.). at Screen Compositions 13 on March 14, 2017, soon on Youtube..
SCREEN COMPOSITIONS 13 – Curated by Katherine Liberovskaya It’s the thirteenth year of Screen Compositions; in Chinese culture (and we’re in Chinatown) 13 is very lucky and means “definitely vibrant”; so this 2017 edition presents a most definitely vibrant collection of intersections of moving image with sonic art; a program of screen works representing dynamic two-way collaborations between video/film artists and sound/music artists specifically intended for single-channel projection with no live or performance component; featuring collaborations by: Magdalena Campos-Pons / Neil Leonard; Paul Clipson / Byron Westbrook; Julie Doucet / Anne-f. Jacques; Janene Higgins / Cassis B Staudt; Luis Macias / Alfredo Costa Monteiro; Geoff Matters / Dok Gregory; Laetitia Morais / Carlos Guedes; Dafna Naphtali / Hans Tammen; Mercedes Peris / Ferrer-Molina; Paola Pisani / Alessandro Fogar. Dafna Naphtali / Hans Tammen’s collaboration “Blaafarveværket” includes video synthesis work from Dafna’s residency at Signal Culture last June! BUY TICKETS More information
Time: 7:00pm. Admission: 4.99. Age restrictions: All Ages. Address: 224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor. Venue phone: 212 431 5127, 431 6430.
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Musical Instruments in the 21st Century
“What if Your Instrument is Invisible?”
is my chapter in the new book “Musical Instruments in the 21st Century: Identities, Configurations, Practices” (December 2016, Springer: Singapore).
Abstract: As an electronic musician I am largely occupied with capturing and manipulation of sound in real time—specifically the sound of instruments being played by other musicians.
Also being a singer, I’ve found that both of my instruments are often perceived as “invisible”.
This article discusses various strategies I developed, over a number of years, in order to “play” sound manipulations in musically reactive ways, to create a live sound-processing “instrument”.
Problems were encountered in explaining what I do to other musicians, audience, and audio engineers about what I do, technically and musically. These difficulties caused me to develop specific ways to address the aesthetic issues of live sound-processing, and to better incorporate my body into performance, both of which ultimately helped alleviate the invisibility problem and make better music.
You can download/read my chapter here — “What if Your Instrument is Invisible” or purchase the chapter here: http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811029509
Daniel Davidovsky / Shmil Frankel / Dafna Naphtali in Tel Aviv on Tue, Jan 10, 2017
Audio Chandelier: polyélaios– a multi-channel kinetic sound sculpture coming to Governors Island
Audio Chandelier: polyélaios is a new multi-channel interactive sound installation by Dafna Naphtali, featuring a kinetic audio speaker sculpture created in collaboration with her sister, metalsmith/designer Ayala Naphtali. The installation, to be installed at Governors Island May 1-July 30th, presented by Harvestworks Digital Media Arts, is postponed due to COVID-19, now projected to open August 1, 2020.
Individual “grains” of sound will be dispersed via the speaker sculpture in an immersive sonic experience– undulating audio “pixels” illuminate and refract moments in time, eliciting reminiscent soundscapes of environmental / electronic fields of crickets, unruly flowing brooks, rain-rhythms, bird song and unruly percussion. A multitude of isolated sounds form a new sonic whole, ranging from turbulence to stillness and Xenakis inspired hyper-electronics refraction of sound.
Dafna Naphtali’s Audio Chandelier multi-channel sound projects since 2010, have included both live performances and fixed media installations. This new interactive installation, created during a 2019 artist residency at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts, is also a first-time collaboration with the metalsmith/designer Ayala Naphtali to create the sculpture.
Ayala Naphtali will contribute expertise from her design practice over the past 35+ years works in ways with color and subtle kinetic and mechanical movement that fits the scale and delicacy of the visual needed for my Audio Chandelier. The design vision for the speaker layout and kinetic sculpture are inspired by Ayala’s silversmith and metal work designs.(ayalajewelry.com)
Dafna and Ayala Naphtali, in this Audio Chandelier: polyélaios , bring together all their influences and background as native New Yorkers and sisters: Dafna, informed by her practice as an electronic musician with a life-long habit of listening to birds rural and urban soundscapes, going back to their family’s extreme backpacking trips, Ayala in her long interest in natural materials and physicality of her objects, starting as a teen taking jewelry classes at the Metropolitan Museum. Their shared history, as native New York sisters also comes in: weekly childhood visits and classes at MoMA (early memories of Calder, Cubism, modern jazz dance classes and early exposure to computer music by their modern dancer mother and engineer/computer programmer, father.
For more background on earlier Audio Chandelier work by Dafna Naphtali, see AudioChandelier.com
DAFNA NAPHTALI is a sound-artist, vocalist, electronic musician and guitarist. A performer and composer of experimental, contemporary classical and improvised music since the mid-90’s, she creates custom Max/MSP programming for sound-processing of voice and other instruments, music for robots, “Audio Chandelier” multi-channel sound projects and “Walkie Talkie Dreams” audio augmented reality soundwalks in NY and Germany. “luminary” (Time Out) “extraordinary experimental vocalist” (Bruce Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery. “Brilliant and dangerous” All Music Guide. dafna.info
Ayala Naphtali strives for balance and proportion, and feels as if each piece must find its axis on the wearer. The work is designed to be elegant, with minimal and bold forms Ayala’s work is an exploration of form and materials, each equally important. She feels firmly rooted in the historical tradition of her craft. Ayala is committed to the use of materials, for their color texture and versatility. Often the material is the inspiration for the piece of jewelry being designed. Coconut shell, dyed and carved, is used to achieve rich color and texture. Forging, fabricating and casting are used to create pieces with dimension and volume.”
Ayala began making jewelry in her early teens. She studied Gold and Silversmithing at FIT and SUNY NEW PALTZ where she received her BFA in 1985. Ayala’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally in galleries and museums. She has won awards at Exhibitions nationally.
Her work has been collected privately, and by major museums including the Cooper Hewitt and Kunsindustriumuseum in Norway, and The White House permanent collection. Ayala currently exhibits in major nationally juries craft shows such as American Craft Exposition in Baltimore, SOFA show in Chicago and other local venues. Selected publications include American Craft Magazine, ELLE, The Fashions of The Times, The New York Times, Mademoiselle, Women’s Wear Daily, Glamour, and New Women Magazine. Ayala has been a juror for The American Craft Council Craft Shows.