Werner Dafeldecker

Werner Dafeldecker is an Austrian double bassist, guitarist, composer and sound artist, born in Vienna in 1964 and now based in Berlin. He works across free improvisation, quiet ensemble music, electronics and sound installation. Werner Dafeldecker is best known as a co-founder of Polwechsel, the Viennese group he started with cellist Michael Moser in the early 1990s, whose music rests on low volume, sustained tones and slowly unfolding structures. Werner Dafeldecker studied double bass at the Vienna Conservatory and played in Ton Art and in Burkhard Stangl's ensemble Maxixe.