Dafna Naphtali is a sound-artist/ improviser/composer from an eclectic musical background. As a singer/guitarist/electronic-musician she performs and composes using computer programs she writes for sound processing of voice and other instruments .
She co-leads the digital chamber punk ensemble, What is it Like to be a Bat? with Kitty Brazelton (http://www.whatbat.org), and also performs in ensembles of improvised/aleatoric electro-acoustic music -- collaborated / performed with Lukas Ligeti, David First, Joshua Fried, Ras Moshe, Alexander Waterman, Kathleen Supové , Darius Jones and Hans Tammen, among others. 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, Brecht Forum, and residencies at STEIM (Holland), Music OMI and iEAR at Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute. Dafna has performed and traveled widely and under usual circumstances for her music (to festivals and venues in the U.S. Europe, Israel, Canada, Africa, Australia/New Zealand, Russia).
Dafna also teaches and gives workshops: at universities in the US and in Europe (New York University, Bard College, Columbia University, U. Miami, Pratt Institute, U. Mass, U. Nijmegan and Institute of Sonology in Holland among others) and she teaches, programs and consults about Max/MSP since1996. She holds a Bachelors of Music (Jazz Performance) and Masters in Music Technology from New York University, and is part-time faculty at NYU.
Dafna can be heard with Mechanique(s) (Aechulian Handaxe, 2008),; as featured vocalist on José Halac’s CD ‘Dance of 1000 Heads’ (Tellus), Alternative Schubertiade (CRI w/Kitty Brazelton); as well as What is it Like to be a Bat? on Tzadik/Oracles (4 Stars, All Music Guide) with Brazelton and percussionist Danny Tunick. She is a member of ASCAP.