My dad was a chemical engineer (now retired), my mother was a dancer and later a sociologist (worked on her doctorate throughout my teens).
Their debates and viewpoints on science, philosophy of science, social science, politics and their library (enormous) were the background noise and foreground content that made my home life growing up *always* extremely interesting and set me and my sister up for lifetime of inquiry and curiosity about so many things.
The other day, clearing up some papers, they came across this article they wrote together in 1983 for Chemtech magazine. Reading it and seeing that collaborative spirit in the article is reminding me how lucky I was to grow up with the two of them.. (plus they look really cute in their backpacks..) .. grateful ! ! <3
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Dafna with Robert Dick and Satoshi Takeishi
Chatter Blip duo with Chuck Bettis at Panoply Oct 2013:
“Robotica” excerpt from Flea Theater — piece inspired by Al-Jazari, 13th century Mesopotamian inventor of musical automata.
Robotica excerpt: Dafna Naphtali & LEMUR music robots from Dafna Naphtali on Vimeo.
Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) 2013
PLOrk 2013 Super Cut from Daniel Iglesia on Vimeo.
here I appear in an AP interview about PLOrk and writing for laptop orchestra..
Dafna with LEMUR Music Robots
Kathy Supové playing Dafna’s piece “Landmine” at NIME 2007:
Landmine @ NIME conference 2007 from Dafna Naphtali on Vimeo.
With Yair Reshef “TV bendind” at Jerusalem Film Festival 2006.
tvwaves from Yair Reshef on Vimeo.
documentation of Warren Neidich’s NSA:USA Sound as Prophecy, Nov. 2013 NYC
http://vimeo.com/79990535
Performing Stimmung with Daria Fine and Magic Names sextet:
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RICARDO ARIAS
Artists: Ricardo Arias, Diego Chamy, Luis Conde & Gabriel Paiuk, Pascal Boudreault, Dafna Naphtali & Yasunao Tone, Sean Meehan, Jefferson Rosas & Juan Sebastián Suanca, Roberto García, Daniel Leguizamón, Daniel Prieto & Rodrigo Restrepo, Nate Wooley & Hans Tammen, Tim Feeney & Vic Rawlings.
Track 5. Miscelánea en General
Ricardo Arias, interactive mapophone, recordings; Pascal Boudreault, computer; Dafna Naphtali, sampling and processing; Yasunao Tone, wounded CD’s. Recorded by Jim Staley live at Roulette (228 W. Bway), New York City, March 26, 2000.
more information: http://tammen.org/cd-ricardo-arias-new-york-bogota-2000-2010/
Exciting things happening..
Words.. a short article of mine was just published in Almanac of Contemporary Instruments–
“What if your instrument is invisible?”
Mixing / Overdubs / Thinking — I’m busy and excited about finishing work on my upcoming release “Machines and Memory” representative of my larger scale projects for chamber ensemble, voice and electronics, LEMUR music robots and voice, and a vocal sextet with live processing; all commissions, premiered and recorded between 2010 and 2014.
still have some guitar and vocal overdubs to do..
Teaching Teaching Teaching — at NYU (Electronic Music Performance: Laptop orchestra, and Advanced MaxMSP) and at New School — Music Technology and Electronic Music. lots of reading and creating going on..
Future .. and for the 2nd summer, I will be directing GEMS (Girls Electronic Music Seminar) a summer workshop for middle school girls at New York University.
