Cornelius Duffalo: “Realeyes”
Scored for violin, electronics, and hemispheric speaker system, Realeyes is a thirty minute meditation on peace. Exploring concepts of destruction and transcendence, Realeyes juxtaposes hypnotic “sound-breath” with moments of harsh dissonance, improvisations,a dn extended techniques.
Cornelius Duffalo (a.k.a. Neil) is currently one of the violinists in ETHEL. Hailed by the New York Times as one of the “new faces of new music,” he has received worldwide acclaim as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and composer. Neil was a member of the Flux Quartet from 1997-2002, then he joined the band NurseKaya, which he performed in from 2002-2004. Other recent affiliations include Ornette Coleman’s Harmelodic Chamber Players, and Butch Morris’ New York Skyscraper and Phantomstation, Neil is a composer and publisher member of ASCAP.
Dafna Naphtali: “Travels”
A set of 16-channel sound pieces, abstractions and reminiscences of years of itinerant travel in unusual circumstances - created using sound movement and spatialization concepts she honed in her 2 years as a resident programmer at Engine 27, and performed live - with special guest musicians and live video.
Dafna Naphtali is a sound-artist/improviser-composer from an eclectic background of music-making. A singer/guitarist/electronic-musician, she performs and composes using her custom Max/MSP/Jitter programs for sound processing of voice and other instruments that she has been writing since 1992. Besides her composing and improvised projects, she co-leads the digital chamber punk ansemble, What is it Like to be a Bat? With Kitty Brazelton (www.whatbat.org) , recorded on Tzadik (4 stars, All Music Guide). Dafna can also be heard on Mechanique(s) with Hans Tammen in a forthcoming release on In-situ and was a featured vocalist on Jose Halac’s CD “Dance of 1000 Heads” (Tellus)
Guest Alex Waterman will perform cello & electronics.