Werner Dafeldecker has been played on NTS in shows including The Synth Hero Show, featured first on 1 June 2015. Songs played include Mapping Peaks and Daughters Of The Botanist.

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. e-mail: durian@t0.or.at