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- Artist: Dafna Naphtali
- Date: 09/21/11
- Time: 12:00pm
- Venue: visiting artist talk @ Bloomfield College
- City: Bloomfield , NJ
- Country: United States
Author: admin
Dafna Naphtali in Brooklyn, NY on Sun, Oct 16, 2011
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Dafna Naphtali and Hans Tammen in New York, NY on Sun, Sep 11, 2011
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John Cage Songbook in New York on Sat, Jul 16, 2011
“But I think overall, over the years, it’s been an astonishing adventure.”
—Merce Cunningham
Before Merce Cunningham, dance was a world bedecked with music and narrative, encased in sets and costumes. In a seventy-year career of incomparable importance, Cunningham tore those intricacies down and forever redefined his art form, rebuilding it on its most essential foundation: the near-limitless possibilites of movement.
Filling the entire complex of Frederick P. Rose Hall, this three-part day invites you to explore Cunningham’s lifetime of artistic achievements. In the morning, sit in on a company class and participate in family-friendly activities. In the afternoon and evening, enjoy performances by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, including Cunningham’s masterful Squaregame (1976) and Duets (1980). Learn his Field Dances (1963) with a member of the repertory company. Walk among the floating Mylar balloons of Andy Warhol’sSilver Clouds, used as décor for RainForest (1968). Pick up one of the iPods loaded with the music that most influenced Merce and listen as you explore multiple events happening simultaneously. There’s much more, including a special recording booth, where people may record their own impressions of Merce’s work and his legacy.
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Dafna Naphtali in Brooklyn on Tue, Jun 28, 2011
…with Jen Baker (tb), Sarah Bernstein (vio), Andrew Drury (perc) and Stuart Popejoy (bass).
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Dafna Naphtali in New York on Sat, Jun 25, 2011
Dark Dining Projects feasts are participatory art events revolving around sensory awareness and pleasure.
Blindfolded diners are guided to tables by “dancer/embodiers” and served a specially conceived four-course meal paired with fine wines. Between courses, the room is quieted and guests are treated to artist performances. On a given night, that might be a tap dancer, a vocalist, a flamenco guitarist, a beat-boxer, or a baroque violinist. The menu is revealed at the close of the evening. Then diners are led outside where they remove their blindfolds. They never see the room in which they dined.
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Harvestworks
Dafna has been associated with Harvestworks since the mid-90’s, as consultant, instructor (classes and workshops in Max/MSP, live sound processing, Max for Live, Jitter, and other courses as well as one-on-one instruction). She also sat on many panels for various Harvestworks events such as Peekaboo Festival, Who’s in Control, and New Instruments for Improvisation and Experimental Approaches at HERE Gallery.
In 2010 she was an artist-in-residence, and worked on her solo pieces “Mahashefa” and “Robotica” for LEMUR robots and voice.
teaching: NYU
Dafna has been associated with the Music Technology program at NYU for many years. She teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses, ran the studios as Chief Engineer (’96-’98), and work in the 2000’s for seven years as an academic advisor.
Dafna is an alum– (BM ’92 Vocal Jazz, Masters in Music Technology ’96), she was Chief Systems Engineer ’96-’98.
Starting Fall 2011 and ever since, she teaches Electronic Music Performance, and in the Spring semesters since 2007, she teaches Advanced Max/MSP/Jitter. In the past she also has taught Digital Audio Processing (first year graduate course normally taught by the program director), and MIDI II: Intro to Max, as well as numerous workshops at the Interactive Telecommunications Program.
Magic Names vocal sextet
Magic Names is a six-member self-led vocal ensemble, founded in 2007 to champion Stimmung, the rarely performed vocal masterpiece of Karlheinz Stockhausen (written in 1968). The group’s premiere concert after an intensive 18-month rehearsal period was in May 2009 at the New Museum in New York City. We are an eclectic group of New York performing artists. We come together as composers, classical singers, pop singers, dancers, sound-artists, and film-makers. We are all avid improvisers – united by a shared passion for contemporary repertoire, and new experimentation. Current and sometime members of the group have included Gisburg, Nick Hallett, Dafna Naphtali, Robert Osborne, Daisy Press, Peter Sciscioli and Margot Basset.
Stimmung is a formidable 70-minute work for six singers, and a subtle sine-wave drone B-flat 9th chord. The score calls for nearly constant singing of quickly fluctuating phonemes in polyrhythmic overlapping patterns, creating a Western-influenced overtone singing style. Aleatoric sections of the piece pit one singer against another’s rhythmic disruptions and pitch deviations, creating beat frequencies, and other sound events that are reminiscent of the composer’s work for tape and electronics. The atmosphere is interrupted intermittently by lusty singsong texts, and by “magic names” of ancient gods and goddesses. Poetic levity is incorporated into otherworldly intonation.
Working With Stockhausen’s Stimmung (1968) Filmed by Iki Nakagawa from daria fain on Vimeo.
We are an eclectic group of New York City performing artists. We come together as composers, classical singers, pop singers, dancers, sound-artists, and film-makers. We are all avid improvisers – united by a shared passion for contemporary repertoire, and new experimentation.
Stimmung was only the starting point for Magic Names. In recent seasons we have incorporated original works written by members of the group. Including “Fassbinder Songs”, written by Gisburg for the Vital Vox Festival 2010, and “Panda Half-Life” by Dafna Naphtali, commissioned by American Composers Forum Jerome Commissioning Program.
As well, we have a strong collaborative relationship with choreographer Daria Fain, an acclaimed New York choreographer who who invited the group to participate with her in her piece “Working with Stockhausen’s Stimmung” commissioned and presented by Danspace Project in New York City as part of PLATFORM 2010, with other performances in the past few years as Judson Church and 92nd street Y.
www.myspace.com/magicnames