WERNER DAFELDECKER, WERNER DURAND, BRYAN EUBANKS — Quantenschaum
Performance – Concert – Premiere
Presented by YELLOW SOLO at EBENSPERGER
Fichtebunker, Fichtestrasse 6, 10967 Berlin
April 5, Saturday
Door opens: 8 pm
Starts: 8:30 pm
Tickets on site: 10,-
This new music project brings together the dynamic interplay of three innovative musician/composers: double bass player Werner Dafeldecker, saxophonist and instrument builder Werner Durand, and alto saxophonist Bryan Eubanks. In their debut performance, the trio delves deep into the intricate exploration of tone, blending a unique array of instruments with a shared focus on Just Intonation. With Dafeldecker’s resonant, tactile bass, Durand’s custom-built clarinet style instruments, and Eubanks’ precise, layered saxophone work, they create a sonic landscape that is both experimental and immersive. The resonant space in which they perform becomes an integral part of the instrumentation, allowing their sounds to interact and evolve with the environment. The trio’s new 45-minute work invites listeners into a deep, sustained journey through pitch, resonance, and harmony, engaging the ear in a fresh dialogue about sound and its relationship to space.
In the high ceilinged, curved-walled and uniquely structured exhibition space in Fichtebunker, separated from the outside world by metre-thick concrete walls, the environment is an exciting challenge not only acoustically, but also because of the context, which is the history and original function of the building.
Werner Durand has been active as saxophone player since the late 1970s. After studies of both indian as well as persian flutes, he has created his own unique wind instruments since the mid 80s, based on just intonation. He collaborated with numerous composers and performers including Amelia Cuni, David Behrman, Henning Christiansen, Catherine Christer Hennix, Arnold Dreyblatt and many others. Currently he performs as FLOCKS – a duo with multi-instrumentalist Ulrich Hohmann as well as with singer Anna Clementi as ARTIFICIAL HIPSTERS. Together with Anna Clementi and Luciano Chessa he performs in trio of Intona Rumori, using futurist instruments invented by Luigi Russolo in early 20th century. Grants and residencies include Cité des Arts, Paris, 1989; Podewil, Berlin, 1999; Worpswede artist colony, Germany, 2004/5; AIR–Krems, Austria, 2011 & Civitella Ranieri, Italy, 2013. He has curated festivals of traditional as well as avantgarde music in Berlin like „Urban und Aboriginal“, „Pipeline“, „USArts“, „Minimalisms and Intonations“ and „Musiksalon Berlin“ at the Ethnological Museum.
FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE ARTIST
Werner Dafeldecker was born in Vienna in 1964 and studied the double bass which he plays with passion. As a musician, composer and sound artist he takes advantage of the manifold possibilities offered by electro-acoustics. His musical projects are often inspired and deduced by outside influences such as architecture, science, photography and film – partially resulting in the creation of graphical scores for various ensembles and instrumental performers. Dafeldecker also focuses on site specific projects, field recording and opposing natural and environmental sounds with synthetic variants. He has built up an extensive sound archive and created several electro-acoustic pieces for radio and film. Around ninety sound-recordings exist that documents his artistic framework. He held lectures and workshops presenting his work i.a. at University Bellas Artes-Madrid, Hochschule für Gestaltung-Karlsruhe, RMIT University-Melbourne and Edith Cowan University-Perth. In 2022, he curated -Reflux- an international Festival for electroacoustic music in Berlin together with Ignaz Schick.
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Bryan Eubanks (b. 1977, US) develops his music through solo work and collaboration. Since 1999 he has participated in many short and long term projects, and regularly presents his work internationally. Continually active in a variety of contexts: improvisation; composing electronic and acoustic works for small ensembles, solo instruments, computers, and electronics; organizing and curating concerts for other artists; building electronic instruments. He began playing music as an improviser in Portland, Oregon in 1999 with Joe Foster and Jean Paul Jenkins, subsequently spending many years in New York City where he worked mostly with doublebassist Andrew Lafkas in a variety of settings including the trio Oceans Roar 1000 Drums with drummer Todd Capp. Since 2013 he has been based in Berlin.
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Special thanks to Péter Barta and the EBENSPERGER Team – Patrick Ebensperger, Leonie Rösler, Johannes Schüchner and Marlene Sichelschmidt.