07/14 @ 8:00pm - Dafna Naphtali + Bora Yoon

Dafna Naphtali is a sound-artist/ improviser/composer from an eclectic musical background. As a singer/guitarist/electronic-musician she performs and composes using her Max/MSP programming for sound processing of voice and other instruments.

Dafna has collaborated / performed with many experimental musicians and video artists over the past 15 years, such as Ras Moshe, Alexander Waterman , Lukas Ligeti, David First, Joshua Fried, Darius Jones, Kathleen Supové and Hans Tammen as well as video artists Benton-C Bainbridge and Angie Eng and choreographer Daria Fain. She’s co-lead the digital chamber punk ensemble, What is it Like to be a Bat? with Kitty Brazelton (www.whatbat.org) , and is a founder of Magic Names vocal ensemble. She’s received commissions and awards from NY Foundation for the Arts, NY State Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer, Experimental TV Center, Brecht Forum, and residencies at STEIM (Holland), Music OMI and iEAR at Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute. She’s twice received commissions from American Composers Forum (for pianist Kathleen Supové, and in 2010 for Magic Names vocal ensemble), . She’s performed and traveled widely and under usual circumstances for her music (to festivals and venues around the globe), including to India in February 2010 for collaboration with Hindustani singer, Vidya Shah (with funding from American Music Center). Dafna received a 2011 Franklin Furnace Fund award to develop work with Eric Singer’s LEMUR music robots.

Dafna also teaches and gives workshops at universities in the US and Europe , holds a Masters in Music Technology from New York University, where she is part-time faculty, and teaches programs and consults about computer music at Harvestworks and freelance since ’95. She’s done sound design and/or programming work for the projects of many artists at the forefront of digital and interactive music.

Dafna can be heard on Mechanique(s) (Acheulian Handaxe), on What is it Like to be a Bat? (Tzadik/Oracles) (4 Stars, All Music Guide) with Brazelton and Danny Tunick, Her newest CD Chatter Blip with Chuck Bettis is on Acheulian Handaxe.

Dafna Naphtali will perform a set of interrelated multi-channel aleatoric sound and vocal pieces building on work created during her years as a programmer at Engine 27, and during a residency at Diapason (“Audio Chandelier and Haas“). She will also present excerpts of “Panda Half-Life,” a new multi-channel vocal work written for the vocal ensemble Magic Names (American Composers Forum commission), which premiered in June, with Gisburg and other guest singers from the ensemble.

Bora Yoon

Yoon has collaborated with musicians DJ Spooky, Ben Frost, Kaki King; data artist Luke DuBois; site-specific choreographer Noémie Lafrance; multimedia theatre companies Ridge Theatre and Dhamma Theatre West; composer Michael Gordon; poet Sekou Sundiata; and the League of Electronic Musicians & Urban Robots (LEMUR).
Yoon has collaborated with musicians DJ Spooky, Ben Frost, Kaki King; data artist Luke DuBois; site-specific choreographer Noémie Lafrance; multimedia theatre companies Ridge Theatre and Dhamma Theatre West; composer Michael Gordon; poet Sekou Sundiata; and the League of Electronic Musicians & Urban Robots (LEMUR).