Notes:Audio Chandelier multi-channel sound performance and talk — more info: https://dafna.info/multi-channel-sound/
CT Swam is Presentations: Experiments: Studies: Concerts: Workshops: and: Exchange:
For two weeks the Fridman Gallery will be turned into a Temporary multi-channel sound studio. Events will unfold rather spontaneously (last year led to 15 performances over the course of 6 public evenings), so please follow the activities on the FB page:: https://www.facebook.com/events/1069232346503809/
Clip Mouth Unit– Jen Baker (trombone/voice) and Dafna Naphtali (voice/live-sound-processing/electronics)– has created a unique set of open form compositions for their multi-faceted performance concept — merging electro-acoustics, multi-phonics, and extended techniques, integrated directly with scalar and rhythmic concepts.
Dafna Naphtali / Jen Baker at NYC Electroacoustic Improv Summit 2016
The duo has been performing and creating together since 2011, including presentations at ISIM (Int’l Society of Improvising Musicians Conference), Bucknell College, and NYC Electroacoustic Improvisation Summit, and preparing a unique set of open form compositions for their multi-faceted performance concept merging electro-acoustics, multi-phonics, extended techniques, integrated directly with scalar and rhythmic concepts.
“Clip Mouth Unit, a duo project of Dafna Naphtali and Jen Baker performed with a high-energy mix of Baker’s trombone interjections and Naphtali’s intense yet urbane vocal stylings, combined with varied and unpredictable computer- generated textures and live processing of the acoustic sound, all presented with a comic’s madcap sense of timing. Despite a wide range of surprising musical swerves, the performance never lost focus.”
BIOs of Jen / Dafna: Jen Baker, trombonist/composer, has collaborated with artists all over the world in site-specific mixed media performance, concert halls, solo and chamber commissions. As an improviser she is featured on the soundtrack to Werner Herzog’s Oscar-nominated Encounters at the End of the World. She has performed internationally in festivals and has toured with Arijit Singh, Karole Armitage, and Mansour, and new music ensembles S.E.M., TILT brass, and the mobile ensemble Asphalt Orchestra (founding member). Her well received new book, Hooked on Multiphonics, is treatise on extended techniques for trombone for composers and trombonists to aid in understanding and executing the deep complexities of multiphonics.
Clip Mouth Unit scores are in the form of a deck of cards/PostIts each with a different behavior or electroacoustic process outlining relationship between instruments and processing ======>
score for June 2015 gig at TransPecos
Below are the last moments of our performance at TransPecos — (the video is dark,but the sound is good.) See below for more videos and the rest of the concert.
PastConcerts/Activities:
— Live on WKCR radio NY, with Nicola Hein (guitar) and Ramin Amir Arjomand (piano) (April 2018)
— Penn State University School of Music (Feb 2018)
— Bucknell College (Sept 2017),
— New York University Society for Women in Technology (SWiTCH) concerts (’17, ’15) see videos
— TransPecos – June 2015
— Panoply– duo performance 2013
— Firehouse Space– trio with Ras Moshe (saxophone)
— ISIM 2014 (Int’l Society of Improvising Musicians) presentation/performance
— presentation on Clip Mouth Unit on WTF is Experimental Music Series, Panoply Lab
— recording @ Harvestworks (unreleased) — duos plus one: with Ras Moshe, with Andrew Drury, with Sarah Bernstein.
“Index of Refraction” is the debut album of the duo of Luis Tabuenca (percussion/ drums), Dafna Naphtali (voice/ electronics), recorded at Harvestworks in NY. An Index of Refraction of a material is a dimensionless number that describes how light propagates through that medium. Inspired by this definition, and translated/transposed to musical vocabulary– an index of refraction could be an analogy to the way in which acoustical instruments and the human voice behave when they are sound processed through electronic devices.
Tabuenca and Naphtali first met and performed together October 2013, when Tabuenca invited Naphtali to Festival Audio Tangente in Burgos, Spain, which he curated with the theme of voice and electronics. The duo’s communicative and energetic performance at the festival was the beginning of a long term project, continuing in NY, and in a new recording — “Index of Refraction” was released in April on Acheulian Handaxe as CD or digital download (also iTunes). The album is also available on naucleshg and Bandcamp: https://handaxe.bandcamp.com/album/index-of-refraction
“secret codes of impromptu action.. elegance behind the expressiveness..Naphtali’s non-figurative melodic diversions, glimpses of a cross of Tenko Ueno and a slightly inebriated Meredith Monk.. “ Massimo Ricci / Touching Extremes.
at work in NY:
After the duo’s initial performance in Spain, Luis Tabuenca came to NY in Spring of 2014 for a residency at NYU’s Waverly labs. He and Naphtali performed shows around NY — as a duo, and with other collaborators — trio with Izzi Ramkisssoon (bass), and a quintet at The Firehouse Space with Briggan Krauss (sax), Stephanie Griffin (viola) and Jonas Tauber (bass). Their work together in NY culminated in the first album of this duo.
..about Index of Refraction: This new duo release “Index of Refraction” was recorded at Harvestworks in NY. An Index of Refraction of a material is a dimensionless number that describes how light propagates through that medium. Inspired by this definition, and translated/transposed to musical vocabulary– an index of refraction could be an analogy to the way in which acoustical instruments and the human voice behave when they are sound processed through electronic devices.
This concept in mind, we improvised music while processing and manipulating our sounds, both electronically and acoustically, in order to create new sonic landscapes, each track is based on the refractive index of a different medium.
Tabuenca-Naphtali duo is available for bookings in Europe
March 11-28th 2017.
Augmented Audio soundwalk in Washington Square Park, NYC powered by U-GRUVE AR.
Walkie Talkie Dream Angles isan electroacoustic composition and interactive sound walk for Washington Square Park by Dafna Naphtali — traversing sonically interesting corners of the park to underscore the loss of quiet, past and future sounds, bringing a favorite urban environment to life, in a sonically unique and individual way. Processed pre-recorded environmental sounds are layered with voice, and some thoughtful strategizing about site-specific listening, interactivity and attention span.
LAUNCHED 2016, available 24/7 (or whenever the park is open) indefinitely! UPDATE: 4-28-21 temporarily under maintenance..
1) DOWNLOAD the free Walkie Talkie Dream Angles app
(recommended to do on WiFi)
Walkie Talkie Dream Angles was created for U-GRUVE AR, a mobile device app and Audio Augmented Reality platform created by creative technologist Richard Rodkin of Memetic Arts, which enables the creation of interactive soundtracks for public spaces using listener/participants phones and GPS sensors to trigger geo-tagged musical outcomes to predefined zones in the targeted environment.
Notes:Giving a talk about my work Walkie Talkie Dream Angles at the Monthly Music Hackathon.
The Noise Hackathon centers on the notion of “Noise in 3D: Data-Driven, Art-Driven & Community-Driven” while embracing both the vastness and idiosyncrasies of the world of noise. Talks, panels, and workshops will provide gateways into the complexities of noise including urban noise pollution and noise music to jump-start a full day of noise hacking. Please join us in making some noise
Schedule
11:30 AM – Doors open
12:00 PM – Talks
Arline Bronzaft – Less Noise Translates Into a Healthier Lifestyle
Tae Hong Park – Soundmapping Our World: Measuring, Seeing, Doing
Dafna Naphtali – Interactive Site-specific Composition: U-GRUVE Audio Augmented Reality
Nikita Scott – Healthy Oceans: The True Cost of Underwater Noise
1:30 PM – Hacking and optional brainstorming session start
2:00 PM – Workshop
Using the Citygram system and Supercollider to interact with and display NYC noise pollution data
8:00 PM – Project presentations
Notes:Peter Geisselbrecht, born 1954, studied music in Cologne (piano, composition, improvisation) under Klaus Oldemeyer, Joachim Blume, Vinko Globokar and Klaus Runze. He specializes in 20th century piano music, and frequently tours with a program of compositions by victims and contemporaries of the Nazi regime. As an improviser he works primarily with musicians who are equally versed in free improvisation, jazz and contemporary classical music. Since 1985 he teaches piano and improvisation at Giessen University, Germany.
In a rare appearance at The Firehouse Space in NYC, German Pianist Peter Geisselbrecht will present songs by Brecht / Eisler expressing solitude, grieving and longing of the refugee – sung by Dafna Naphtali and Gisburg. A selection from Geisselbrecht’s CD with works by composer Federico Mompoú refer to a poem by Juan de la Cruz in which the poet describes a music that is the voice of the silence itself, while the solitude itself becomes music.
Longing is also the theme of traditional Persian singing presented by composer Saman Samadi, in a poem about homesickness by Mahmoud Davoudi.
The second part of the evening will see a collective improvisation by the participants, including Loui Terrier and Hans Tammen.
Notes:Canticum Interr_ptus?
New breeds in music and media performance
david Linton hosts:
HAPPY CAMPERS!
Mid summer electronic convergence featuring:
MECHANIQUE(S) _ Dafna Napthali & Hans Tammen
dafna.info tammen.org
DAVID LINTON: bicamRL AV
http://linton50.wix.com/bicam-rl-av
LEISURE MUFFIN _ Mike Hopkins (Philadelphia Pa)
https://youtu.be/hJYD8OgQXf0
PLAN 23 _ Dok Gregory, Peter Principle, ( ) Jeremy Slater,
& WvS
http://plan23.net/
LANCE BLISTERS _ Geoff Matters (Share NYC)
http://lanceblisters.com/
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In the courtyard (thoughout the evening):
Kinetic Light Installation by SEE-J
(Chris Jordan) http://www.seej.net/
Listening focus interventions by ‘o.blaat’
(Keiko Uenishi) http://soundleak.org/bio
8 pm door
Sets 9 pm to Midnight
$8
“canticum interr_ptus? new breeds in music and media performance” is curated by david Linton for The Mission for Temporal Art at Trans Pecos Ridgewood
Notes:Barbez
Gorgeous old-world cabaret collides with modernity. Wringing elements of European folksong, post-war classical, and experimental rock into an otherworldly soundscape Barbez moves elegantly between haunting meditations and explosive frenzy. With: Dan Kaufman (guitar), Danny Tunick (marimba, vibraphone), Peter Hess (clarinet, bass clarinet), Catherine McCrae (violin), Peter Lettre (bass), and John Bollinger (drums). With special guest: Dafna Naphtali (voice).
with Larry Rooster (Rebecca Moore) as opening set.
AUDIO CHANDELIER -individual grains of nearly static sound dispersed to various speakers throughout the gallery and altered as granular synthesis illuminates and refracts moments in time. Each of this set of pieces use field recordings and audio samples processed as one “grain” is sent to each speaker available. By manipulating the grains of sound (which remain static in each speaker) a surprising array of sounds and environments are created — from shimmering motion to reverberant spaces, to low crashing waves, to hyper-electronics refraction of sound. The pieces have been presented as multi-channel fixed media, an interactive performance piece, and as a laptop orchestra piece (with an upcoming version for smartphones)
Live 8-channel performance at NYC Electroacoustic Music Festival 2016
June 13th 8pm
Notes:Concert 11: Abron Arts Center Playhouse
Judith Shatin, Plain Song
Roberto Zanata, Basia
Georg Hajdu, Just Her – Jester – Gesture
Galen Brown, God is a Killer
Hunter Long, the universe is no narrow thing
Takashi Miyamoto, Garan for Piano and Computer
Nobuaki Yashima, Homage to Fantasy
Hiromi Watanabe, Anamnèse 8
Jelena Dabic, silk_road_reloaded
Madelyn Byrne, Northern Flight
Haerim Seok, Through the Contrabass
Dafna Naphtali, Audio Chandelier
Notes:The Music Now! Expanded Unit
“Ascension For Daniel Berrigan”
Ras Moshe Burnett-Reeds
Matt Lavelle-Trumpet & Bass Clarinet
Sean Sondregger-Flute & Bass Clarinet
Charles Waters-Alto
Dafna Naphtali-Electricity + Electric Processing
Francois Grillot-Bass
Gil Selinger-Cello
Chris Forbes-Piano
John Pietaro-Percussion
$11
7pm & 8pm (we’re not starting at 9 am. for some ca-razy reason,facebook street is not letting me adjust the start times for events. go figure)
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388 Atlantic Ave (btwn Hoyt St. & Bond St.)
www.thecommonsbrooklyn.org
