Werner Dafeldecker

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Werner Dafeldecker (* 1964 in Vienna ) is an Austrian improvisation musician (guitar, double bass, electronics ) and composer.

Live and act

Dafeldecker studied double bass at the Vienna Conservatory . He is involved in various improvisation, electronic and crossover projects and is a member of the Ton Art group and Burkhard Stangl's Ensemble Maxixe . Together with John Butcher , Burkhard Stangl and the cellist Michael Moser, he forms the Ensemble Polwechsel , which has released four albums since 1994. One of his and Christian Mühlbacher's projects is the shabotinski group . In 1995 he founded the avant-garde label Durian Records . He has also worked with Eugene Chadbourne , Franz Koglmann , Christian Fennesz , Wayne Horvitz , Jim O'Rourke , David Sylvian and the Klangforum Wien . As a composer he worked for the Klangforum Wien , the European Tuba Quartet as well as for his own groups and the theater. Together with Christian Mühlbacher he has developed diphthongs , compositions of a virtual ensemble from pre-recorded recordings by Radu Malfatti , Michael Moser and Burkhard Stangl. He has also created sound installations .

Dafeldecker, who lives in Berlin, has performed at the Witten Days for New Chamber Music , the Salzburg Festival , the Styrian Autumn Graz , the Total Music Meeting and the Berlin Festival as well as at festivals in North America, France and Australia.

Discographic notes

  • Qui.t Comprovisations IX (with Max Nagl , Ned Rothenberg , Tom Varner , Burkhard Stangl, 1991; extra plate )
  • mühlbacher u. a. 04/05/97 (with Ernesto Molinari , Franz Hautinger, Thomas Kugi, Manfred Balasch, Cyriak Jäger, Conrad Schrenk, Tibor Kövesdi, Christian Mühlbacher, Stefan Maass, Gerhard Kero, 1997; extra plate)
  • SSSD Home (with Martin Siewert , Burkhard Stangl, Taku Sugimoto, 2000; Grob)
  • Polwechsel / John Tilbury Field (with Burkhard Beins , Martin Brandlmayr, John Butcher, Michael Moser, John Tilbury, 2007; has ART )

Compositions (selection)

  • Notoriously Hippopotamus - 1987; for trumpet, altosax, bassclarinet, guitar, contrabass, percussion
  • The Downfall - 1989; for three contrabasses
  • Vedute - 1990; for oboe, trumpet, altosax, french horn, bassclarinet, cello, guitar, contrabass, percussion
  • Kökenmöddinger - 1992; for clarinet, altosax, tenorsax, trombone, bassclarinet, piano, contrabass, percussion
  • Geography Pie - 1993; trumpet, soprano sax, melodica, tenor sax, trombone, bassclarinet, piano, guitar, bass, percussion
  • Marrow bone rolling ice floes - 1993; for two guitars, cello, bass
  • Playtime - 1994 (to Jacques Tati); for tuba quartet
  • Pole change - north, east, south-west - 1994; for trombone, two guitars, cello, contrabass
  • The guests of the miners' guests - 1994–1995 (to Luis Bunuel); for two bass clarinet, two contrabasses, two percussionists
  • Archways - 1995: 12 compositions for bass-duo - (with Uli Fussenegger)
  • yOUTh - 1995; for trumpet, trombone, tuba, three guitars, contrabass
  • of division - 1996; for eight contrabasses
  • Hyogo - 1997; for trombone, guitar, cello, contrabass
  • Toaster - 1998; for tenorsax, two acoustic guitars, cd player, cello
  • White Hole - 1999; for four e.guitars, four cellos, vocal, computer

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personal data
SURNAME Dafeldecker, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian improvisation musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna