New York City – based composer Dafna Naphtali created “Mahashefa,” a work for live audio processing and voice. She uses her laptop- based noise/audio processing “instrument” to alter the sound of her multi-octave singing, vocalisms, personalized recordings, and at times a curious accompaniment to her voice. She has earned a degree in Music Technology at NYU and is currently a Max teacher and programmer at Harvestworks since 1995.
Dafna Naphtali is an electronic-musician and vocalist who composes and performs experimental and interactive electroacoustic music, creating projects over the past 20+ years with live sound-processing of voice and other instruments, multi-channel audio, and musical robots. These performative “instruments” are all built on her programming in Max/MSP. Dafna also creates audio augmented-reality soundwalk compositions/apps for the U-GRUVE AR platform. All her projects draw on her eclectic musical background in jazz, classical, rock and near-eastern music.