Women on Making at Whitebox Gallery Oct 8-23

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Women on Making at Whitebox Gallery Oct 8-23
Presenting video.visuals.movement and sound work by Linda Mary Montano, Dafna Naphtali, Yohanna M. Roa, Zorica Colic, Kim Connerton, Tamiko Kawata, Wendy Miller, Maho Ogawa. Curated by Masa Hosojima.

Included is Dafna Naphtali’s audio-video AWOL_socket (2016) created in multi-chain of controls (modular synths controlled by facial movement and Max patches, in turn controlling video synthesis, feedback and a Nam June Paik “Wobbulator”). Created as part of a 2016 Signal Culture residency.

Opening performances @Whitebox Oct 8:
Yohanna’s “Textile Woman” 7:30pm
Wolfgang Lanzenberger’s film “Documenta Fifteen” 7:45pm
Dafna Naphtali (voice/electronics) & Maho Ogawa (movement artist) 8:00pm

Whitebox Gallery: 9 Avenue B, New York NY.
https://whiteboxnyc.org/2022/exhibitions/making/

Fall 2022 M³ (Mutual Mentorship for Musicians).

By admin Oct, 2022 Jul, 2023 News

Great news! Dafna’s been selected for the Fall Equinox 2022 Cohort of Mutual Mentorship for Musicians. M³ is a platform created in 2020, co-founded by vocalist-composers Jen Shyu and Sara Serpa, to empower, elevate, normalize and give visibility to women, non-binary musicians and those of other historically underrepresented gender identities in intersection with race, sexuality, or ability across generations in the US and worldwide, through a radical model of mentorship and musical collaborative commissions. https://mutualmentorshipformusicians.org/

Fall Equinox 2022 Cohort is: Krissy Bergmark – tabla (Chicago), Aline Frazão – voice, guitar (Angola/Berlin), Jessica Jones – tenor saxophone/piano (NYC), Tara Kannangara – trumpet/voice (Toronto, Canada), Gwen Laster – violin (Beacon, NY), Rosángela Isabel Pérez Molero – violin (Venezuela/Argentina), Naomi Nakanishi – piano (Boston), Dafna Naphtali – electronics/voice (NYC), CC Sunchild- piano/voice (Atlanta), Zeynep Toraman- Electronics/Composer (guitar and synth) (Berlin/Turkey), Ni Made Ayu Dwi Sattvitri – gamelan (Indonesia), Kavita Shah – voice/piano/ukulele/electronics (NYC). Stay tuned for Dafna’s new project with Gwen Laster (violin) in 2023!

performance: Oct 6&7 – ICTUS nights

By admin Oct, 2022 Oct, 2022 Uncategorized

ICTUS nights is coming up!— 3 days of improv-mania curated by Chris Cochrane featuring top contemporary improvisers.

Artistic Director David Watson.
Featuring Andrea Centazzo of ICTUS records https://ictusrecords.com/

October 6 & 7 & 8
(Dafna Naphtali performs on Oct 6 & 7)
at The Shift at 411 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn
more information: https://ictusrecords.com/ictus-nights-brooklin-ny/

Nichola Scrutton: Memory | Dream | Encounter Micro-Commissions

By admin Jan, 2022 Jan, 2022 Compositions, Past Projects

Summer of 2021, Nichola Scrutton (sound artist and singer from Scotland) created a project of micro-commissions to composers/sound artists Ruth Wiesenfeld, Elisabetta Senesi, Dafna Naphtali, Julia Drouhin and Claire Docherty – each invited to create miniature sound compositions using fragments from those drawings as a visual prompt. The umbrella title is Memory | Dream | Encounter.

On 31st August 2021 the six composers met in a virtual gathering to listen together, discuss the works and creative process.

Claire Docherty – Pulse dream fragment For Una MacGlone (bass) & Emma Roche (flute) (3’23)
Dafna Naphtali- Striations (3′)
Elisabetta Senesi – Under the Surface (3’50)
Julia Drouhin – Mer4 (3’50)
Nichola Scrutton – Gestures (3’44)
Ruth Wiesenfeld – the wool from which the ribbons were made (3’54)

The images were a prompt, a connecting point, a spring board for dialogue. The sound compositions stand as individual works and as a collection, which hopefully will be shared publicly in the future.

more information:

https://www.nicholascrutton.co.uk/tag/sound-art/

Dafna Naphtali at Musical Ecologies 10/14/21

By admin Oct, 2021 Aug, 2022 Past Events

Musical Ecologies returns to in-person events***

Thursday, October 14th with Brooklyn-based composer/performer Dafna Naphtali. A native New Yorker, Naphtali is well-known as a vocalist, electronic musician and sound artist. For tonight’s program, she will perform works involving live sound processing, voice, algorithmic studies, downsized versions of her multichannel sound and sound-walking pieces, and improvisations, all drawing on work created and developed over 20+ years. With special guest, percussionist Danny Tunick.

The evening will begin with a conversation hosted by series curator Dan Joseph. ***Audience limited to 25, proof of vaccination required for entry. Please wear a mask.

Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/musical-ecologies-with-dafna-naphtali-tickets-177466004597

More information — Musical Ecologies —https://www.musicalecologies.net/?fbclid=IwAR3IchfPFL-wPDmU7lYTIZenbidUBoJZjoV9OcrFBAZNujxJDRe1Ua12fb8

FB invite https://www.facebook.com/events/4430169463708572?ref=110