DANGERTOWN: DAFNA NAPHTALI & HANS TAMMEN
Dafna Naphtali and Hans Tammen have been collaborating and performing together since 1998, in many different ensembles and projects. Their duo, Dangertown 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 way paying homage (in a twirl of the radio dial) to ambient music, electroacoustic music, free jazz and improvised music, as well as all manner of non-Western musics.
Dangertown was an historic nickname (circa 1900) of Brooklyn’s rough and tumble Greenpoint neighborhood (where the duo is based).
In the video below they are playing a set during the memorial for Michael Evans, a dear friend who passed away in 2021. They use Michael’s electronic instruments: the Ballerina, the Radio and a Therevox (well, they also brought a STEIM Cracklebox). Video originally presented and live streamed by Roulette Intermedium on Jan 28, 2023.
