Dafna Naphtali
Dafna Naphtali (BM '92 - voice, MM '96 - Music Technology, NYU) has performed
an eccectic mix of music since she began performing as a teenager. She was a
street musician in Europe, a touring gospel singer, and lounge musician aboard a
local cruise ship, and a regular performer at the Cathedral of St. John the
Divine. More recently she has performed or recorded for contemporary composers
Alejandro Viñao, Joshua Fried, Bruce Pennycook, and José Halac. She has
performed with Lisa Karrer and David Simons, Kathleen Supové, Lynne Book, Beth
Coleman (DJ Singe), Kitty Brazelton's DADADAH and with German improvisor Hans
Tammen. Dafna has been collaborating with Brazelton in their digital-punk trio
"What is it Like to be a BAT?" since 1996. Active as a sound artist, Dafna instigated an experimental collective of
improvising musicians and video artist Kristin Lucas - called
"Collision" - she sings and does live sound processing of all acoustic
instruments with her custom interactive software. Collision has appearanced at
Downtown Arts Festival '98, American Living Room Series at HERE Gallery, VOID
and Artists's Space. She did sound design for Shelley Hirsch at the 1997
Helsinki Biennial, gave a workshop in Jan 1998 at the Music Mind and Machine
group at the University at Nijmegan (Netherlands), and realized the
computer-audio for Kaija Saariaho's Lohn at Brooklyn Academy of Music
(March '98). In May 1998 she did a week residency at STEIM in Amsterdam to
further develop her live sound processing system and develop custom MIDI
controllers. Dafna founded the Interactive Performance Group at NYU in 1994, for
presentation of works for performers, artists and interactive technologies. She
was Chief Engineer for the Music Technology Program at NYU from 1996 until
August 1998 and now freelances and is a consultant on interactive computer music
for the Harvestworks/Studio PASS Artist-in-Residence program.
Events:
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"What Is It Like To Be a Bat",Concert 3