Dafna Naphtali - sound processing, electronics & voice
Chuck Bettis - electronics & voice
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Recorded March 2009
1 - council 64 (7:17)
2 - gab jiba (6:33)
3 - hybrid chatter (1:54)
4 - renegade (9:45)
5 - fade flatlands (12:26)
6 - breach (8:05)
7 - blip wiki (6:20)
Total Time: 63:20
CHATTER BLIP is a duo performance piece by Chuck Bettis (electronics/voice and Dafna Naphtail (electronics/processing/voice) -- an interstellar multi-character audio operetta involving a multitude of human, alien, and machine voices, in a mash-up of primal and classic sci-fi and electro-acoustics.
Dafna Naphtali + Chuck Bettis: Chatter Blip by hansteg
Photo: Yuko Tonohira
Dafna Naphtali, singer, sound artist/improviser and composer, comes from an eclectic background of music-making. In the early 90's she began studying classical voice and turned her attention to contemporary classical and experimental music. She performs and composes using her own custom Max/MSP programming for sound processing of voice and other instruments, appearing in venues and festivals in NY, Germany, Canada, Belgium, Holland, Israel and Russia and in 2010 to India.
She's collaborated on projects with Hans Tammen, Kathleen Supové, Lukas Ligeti, Alex Waterman. She is co-leader, with Kitty Brazelton, of the digital punk trio "What is is Like to Be a Bat?" (Tzadik CD 2003), and she was recently awarded a commission to write a vocal work for the vocal ensemble Magic Names (with Gisburg, Daisy Press, Nick Hallett, Peter Scisciolli and Robert Osborne), a group founded to champion the vocal work of Stockhausen.
Chuck Bettis, raised in the fertile HarDCore soil, nourished within Baltimore's enigmatic avant garde gatherings, blossoming in NY's Downtown Musical tribe. Past projects include Metamatics, All Scars, Trance And The Arcade. Has also appeared on recordings with Ikue Mori, Nautical Almanac, Yellow Swans, Measles Mumps Rubella, Toshio Kajiwara, Carlos Giffoni. Has played live with John Zorn, Fred Frith, and Afrirampo to name a few.
Current projects include Brown Wing Overdrive (electronic trio of Bettis, Derek Morton, Mikey IQ Jones), Mudang Rouge (quintet with Jerry Lim, Evan Rapport, Josh Blair), Period (quintent with Mike Pride, Charlie Looker, Darius Jones), Hiccup (laptop duo w/ Luke Calzonetti), and a laptop & voice duo with Dafna Naphtali.
François Couture / Monsieur Délire
There are lyrics buried in the effects (and included in the booklet), sci-fi metaphores that give the music a futuristic aura it wears well. These are not songs but edgy improvisations with in a rough though stimulating style.
Massimo Ricci / TemporaryFault
Certain solutions are quite humorous – occasionally awesome – in their warped glory, completely unrecognizable voices utilized as instruments for the generation of baffling soundscapes abounding in rhythmic diversifications, clustery indeterminations and instant outgrowths dressed with timbres from the depth of a black hole.
Andrea Ferrari / Chain DLK
..strange analog-electronic, bleeps, angel vocals, lyrical intersections, outer space yodels .. creates this strange "life after death" experience.
