dafna naphtali: links and information

photos: jill peltzmann

"extraordinary experimental vocalist" -- Bruce Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery

  • What is it Like to be a Bat? w/Kitty Brazelton

  • Mechanique(s) trio w/Hans Tammen

  • Harvestworks Max Reel
  • audio clips at Myspace
  • Video clip -- Solo at opening of Jerusalem Film Festival - (July '05) -- TVs and video by Yair Reshef
  • Video clip -- Solo at "Sculpting Voice" at Monkey Town (Jan '08)
  • video of 5/2/08 show at LEMUR
  • video of Bklyn Lyceum 9/08 w/Ras Moshe

    Upcoming Performances

  • May 14, 2009 at The New Museum -- performance of Stimmung by Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • May 27, 2009 at Galapagos Art Space -- Hans Tammen Third Eye Orchestra
  • June 8, 2009 at Monkey Town -- performance on "Extreme Electronics" curated by Hans Tammen
  • June 21, 2009 at Coney Island Boardwalk - solo performance for Make Music New York
  • June 23, 2009 at Freddys Back Room -- improvisation with Ras Moshe and Shayna Dulberger

    • more details about upcoming shows..


    Discography:
    Hans Tammen Third Eye Orchestra / Innova 2008 (new release)
    Mechanique(s) / Acheulian Handaxe (released Fall 2008, with Hans Tammen and Martin Speicher)
    What is it Like to be a Bat ? / Tzadik (2004)
    Jose Halac -- Dance of a Thousand Heads / Tellus

    Bio:
    Dafna Naphtali is a sound-artist/improviser-composer from an eclectic background of music-making. A singer/guitarist/electronic-musician she performs and composes using her custom Max/MSP/Jitter programs for sound processing of voice and other instruments that she has been writing since 1992. Besides her composing and improvised projects, she co-leads the digital chamber punk ensemble, What is it Like to be a Bat? with Kitty Brazelton (www.whatbat.org). and has collaborated / performed with Lukas Ligeti, David First, Joshua Fried, Ras Moshe, Kathleen Supovê and Hans Tammen She's received commissions and awards from NY Foundation for the Arts, NY State Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer, Experimental TV Center, American Composers Forum, and residencies at STEIM (Holland), Music OMI and iEAR at Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute. She teaches and has given workshops at universities in the US (especially New York University) and in Europe. As a freelancer, she teaches, programs and consults about Max/MSP since 1996, and has done sound design and/or programming work for the projects of Jin Hi Kim, Shelley Hirsch, Pamela Z, Phoebe Legere, Fred Frith, Jim Staley, Henry Threadgill, Steve Coleman, Chico Freeman and others. Dafna can be heard with Mechanique(s) on a forthcoming release on Acheulian Handaxe (Fall '08), on Hans Tammen's Third Eye Orchestra (Innova 2008) and was featured vocalist on Josê Halac's CD 'Dance of 1000 Heads' (Tellus), as well as on her acclaimed release with What is it Like to be a Bat? on Tzadik/Oracles (4 Stars, All Music Guide).


    CONTACT: post_at_dafna_dot_info