Biography Werner Dafeldecker

Born 1964; double bass, guitar.

Werner Dafeldecker studied double bass at the Konservatorium in Vienna. He is a member of Ton.Art, Burkhard Stangl's Maxixe and works in a duo with Uli Fussenegger. He has worked with Eugene Chadbourne, Gene Coleman, Ned Rothenberg, Walter Malli, Tom Varner, Franz Kogelmann, Christoph Kurzmann, Christian Fennesz, Wayne Horvitz, Tony Buck, Jim O«Rourke, Radu Malfatti, Kevin Drumm, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Maxixe, Ton.Art and others. He has composed for several different ensembles, theatre and crossover: Klangforum Wien, European Tuba Quartet, Polwechsel, Shabotinski and Ton Art among others. These compositions include:

Notorisch Hippopotamus - 1987; for trumpet, altosax, bassclarinet, guitar, contrabass, percussion

Der Untergang - 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

Geographietorte - 1993; trumpet, sopranosax, melodica, tenorsax, trombone, bassclarinet, piano, guitar, bass, percussion

Markknochen wälzt Eisschollen - 1993; for two guitars, cello, bass

Playtime - 1994 to Jaques Tati; for tuba-quartet

Polwechsel - Nord, Ost, Süd-West - 1994; for trombone, two guitars, cello, contrabass

Die Gäste der Gäste der Knappen - 1994-1995 to Luis Bunuel; for two bassclarinet, two contrabasses, two percussionists

Bogengänge - 1995: 12 compositions for bass-duo - together 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

Werner Dafeldecker founded the avant-garde label Durian Records in 1995. His current projects include Polwechsel - John Butcher, Burkhard Stangl, Michael Moser - with two recordings on hat ART and Shabotinski. With Christian Mühlbacher he has created Diphtongs: compositions of a virtual group created from pre-recorded solos from improvisors that includes Radu Malfatti, Michael Moser and Burkhard Stangl.

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