Harvestworks

Dafna Naphtali is a sound-artist, electronic-musician
composer/performer and singer. She creates works for multi-channel audio, musical
robots, and interactive soundwalks, drawing on her eclectic musical background
(jazz, rock, gospel, contemporary classical, experimental improvisation) in work
with musicians and video artists in the US and abroad. Projects and recordings
include “Landmine” an interactive work for pianist Kathleen Supové on Disklavier
piano with live processing on “Ear to Ivory” (Starkland 2019), as well as “What is
it Like to be a Bat?” digital punk trio w/Kitty Brazelton (Tzadik), “Pulsing Dot”
duo with Gordon Beeferman and “We Q” with Austrian saxophonist Edith Lettner (both
on Clang label), “Microcosmopolitan” with Chatter Blip duo (with Chuck Bettis, on
Contour Editions). Her upcoming release “Fusebox” with saxophonist Ras Moshe Burnett
will be released on Gold Bolus May 2021. Dafna’s audio-augmented reality soundwalks
(free iOS/Android apps for U-GRUVE AR and running continuously), include Walkie
Talkie Dream Garden at the Williamsburg Waterfront (Brooklyn, NY) and Walkie Talkie
Dream Angles at Washington Square Park (NYC). She’s authored two book chapters on
her work and articles on “Live Sound Processing and Improvisation” for New Music
Box. Dafna was a 2019 Artist-in-Residence at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts for a
new multichannel work for her “Audio Chandelier” series. After pandemic-related
postponements in 2020, she will realizes the new work in collaboration with
metalsmith Ayala Naphtali May-July 2021 on Governors Island.