Barbez w/ Velina Brown and Dafna Naphtali in Pontevedra on Sat, Jul 21, 2018

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Edith Lettner / Dafna Naphtali

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Rough mix of tracks for debut release in 2019

Edith Lettner / Dafna Naphtali duo — We Q

Kathleen Supové / Dafna Naphtali / Nick Didkovsky in Brooklyn on Sun, Feb 25, 2018

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Machine//Body curated by Muyassar Kurdi in Brooklyn on Wed, Dec 5, 2018

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Artist: Machine//Body curated by Muyassar Kurdi
Date: 12/05/18
Time: 8:00pm
Venue: Areté Venue and Gallery
City: Brooklyn , NY
Address: 67 West Street
Venue phone: (929) 397-0025
Country: United States
Age restrictions: All Ages
Notes: Machine//Body is a series curated by Muyassar Kurdi which has manifested in Berlin, Chicago, and NYC featuring interdisciplinary artists working with sound and movement, space and architecture. featuring: Crystal Penalosa Dafna Naphtali Masami Tomihisa Anaïs Maviel *Crystal Penalosa (she/they) is an American artist & interdisciplinary designer based in New York. Their work focuses on queer identity, utilizing modular electronics and voice. Her solo work makes public their search for authenticity and how it intersects with trans visibility. She uses electronics, voice, and light in a performance exploring how voice is a source of power and safety. The structure is meditative and is centered on voice affirmations written during voice self-therapy. Penalosa has performed collaboratively and solo at Issue Project Room, Roulette Intermedium, Sediment Gallery, MoMA PS1, Experimental Intermedia, Spektrum in Berlin, and the Golden Pudel Club in Hamburg. They currently work with the veteran underground record label Generations Unlimited. *Dafna Naphtali is a singer/instrumentalist/electronic-musician who composes/performs experimental, interactive electro-acoustic music. For 20+ years, drawing on a wide-ranging musical background in jazz, classical, rock and near-eastern music and using her custom Max/MSP programming, she’s performed in the US, Canada, Europe, India, Russia and the Middle East, with current projects also including: “Audio Chandelier”, multi-channel audio piece presented in US, Berlin, and Montreal (IX Symposium 2017 @Satosphére); “Robotica” (music robots and voice) at Avant Music Fest ’16 and continuing ; “Walkie Talkie Dream Angles”, an “Audio Augmented Reality” soundwalk and personalized interactive composition written for NY’s Washington Square Park, Her new soundwalk “Walkie Talkie Dream Garden” to be premiered in September 2018 for the waterfront area of Willliamsburg Brooklyn, and with a partner walk that premiered in Hamburg Germany in June 2018. Dafna’s has long-running projects in live sound-processing of voice and acoustic instruments, as her a performable “instrument”. The current focus is on duos with acoustic instrumentalists –pianist Gordon Beeferman (new CD “Pulsing Dot”), trombonist Jen Baker (Clip Mouth Unit), percussionist Luis Tabuenca (CD “Index of Refraction”), Chuck Bettis (electronics/throat – CD “Chatter Blip”) and with Hans Tammen (endangered guitar). Performing as a singer (unplugged!), Naphtali has interpreted the music of Cage, Stockhausen (Stimmung w/choreographer Daria Fain / Magic Names vocal sextet), Eisler/Brecht (Hollywood Liederbuch), and contemporary composers Joshua Fried, Shelley Hirsch, Kitty Brazelton, José Halac, Yotam Haber, Jonathan Bepler, she’s performed Spanish Civil War songs with the genre-transcending band Barbez, and organized “Voice Activated” public interventions for Make Music NY. *Masami Tomihisa is a NYC based composer and pianist from Hyogo, Japan. She plays in Lary 7’s Ensemble of Seven, Bradley Ero’s film collective Optipus, and in a trio The Utter Nots with Patrick Holmes and Robert Mayson. *Anaïs Maviel is a vocalist, percussionist, composer, educator, writer and community organizer. Her work focuses on the function of music as essential to settling common grounds, addressing Relation, and creating utopian future. Involved at the crossroads of mediums – music, visual art, dance, theater and performance art – she has been an in-demand creative force for artists such as William Parker, Steffani Jemison, César Alvarez, Jennifer Lacey, to name a few. As a leader she is dedicated to substantial creations from solo to music direction of large ensembles such as the Commons Choir, and to expanding the power of music as a healing & transformative act. She performs extensively in New York, throughout North, South & Central America, and Europe. Her solo debut hOULe, out on NY based Gold Bolus Recordings, received international acclaim and she just released an eponymous album with free pop duo DIASPORA. doors: 8:00pm, performances: 8:30pm regular admission: $15, students: $10