On the evening of Friday, November 1st, we are delighted to present singer/instrumentalist/electronic-musician Dafna Naphtali (NYC), sound artist Hans Tammen (NYC), Naphtali and Tammen’s duo Dangertown, and electronic experimental musician Frederick Foxtrott (CMH). Doors 7:30pm, show begins at 8:00pm sharp. $9.25 prepaid, $10 at the door.
Supporters of our 2024-2025 season include the Greater Columbus Arts Council, the Ohio Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Columbus Foundation.
About the artists:
Dafna Naphtali is a singer/instrumentalist/electronic-musician who composes/performs experimental, interactive electroacoustic music, drawing on a wide-ranging musical background in jazz, classical, rock and near-eastern music and using her custom Max/MSP programming. She’s performed in the US, Canada, Europe, India, Russia and the Middle East, with current projects including: “Audio Chandelier” multi-channel audio works presented in US, Berlin, and Montreal, in 2020 at Harvestworks New Works residencyGovernors Island in collaboration with metalsmith/designer Ayala Naphtali, and in July 2023 at APO-33 in Nantes, France. Other projects include “Robotica” (music robots and voice) ; and her Audio Augmented Reality soundwalks “Walkie Talkie Dream Angles”, and “Walkie Talkie Dream Garden” site-specific interactive compositions written for the U-GRUVE AR platform for NY’s Washington Square Park, and the waterfront areas in Williamsburg Brooklyn and Hamburg Germany.
Hans Tammen Hans Tammen is just another worker in rhythms, frequencies and intensities. He likes to set sounds in motion, and then sit back to watch the movements unfold. Using textures, timbre and dynamics as primary elements, his music is continuously shifting, with different layers floating into the foreground while others disappear. This flows like clockwork, “transforming a sequence of instrumental gestures into a wide territory of semi-hostile discontinuity; percussive, droning, intricately colorful, or simply blowing your socks off” (Touching Extremes).
In Tölva, his new project, Tammen integrates natural and environmental sounds captured through field recordings with drones tuned to 13 equal divisions of the octave. This tuning allows for more nuanced shifts in pitch, resulting in harmonic complexities and dissonances that music doesn’t typically explore. The combination of organic sounds and synthetic, microtonal drones unfurling at a glacial pace results in a dark cinematic soundscape that creates a deeply immersive auditory experience.
Dangertown was the name of Brooklyn’s Greenpoint area around the year 1900, and the name of the New York-based duo of Dafna Naphtali and Hans Tammen. In their active collaboration since 1998, the duo probes and playfully undermines the elements of their technical and aesthetic practices, using a variety of noise makers, oscillators and other machines – all along the route paying homage (in a twirl of the radio dial) to ambient music, electronica, music concrete, free jazz and improvised music, as well as all manner of non-Western musics.
Frederick Foxtrott is a modular synthesist and multi instrumentalist living and working in Columbus, OH. He likes to think of his music as a collection of hyper melodic fugues that seamlessly blend danceable textures with glitched chromatic figures for a rich maximalist experience.