The Berlin-based trio will give a performance of their work and an improvisation. Lucio Capece, bass clarinet; Werner Dafeldecker, double bass; Katie Porter (Music MFA 02), bass clarinet.
Program
Tape 231 (28’): Werner Dafeldecker
Lucio Capece – bass clarinet
Katie Porter – bass clarinet
Werner Dafeldecker - diffusion, live electronics
Phase to Phase (20’): Katie Porter/Lucio Capece
Lucio Capece – bass clarinet
Katie Porter – bass clarinet
Werner Dafeldecker – double bass
New Hemisphere Radios (30’): Lucio Capece
Lucio Capece – diffusion
Angular Momentum (24’): Lucio Capece
Lucio Capece – bass clarinet
Katie Porter – bass clarinet
Werner Dafeldecker – double bass
Bios
Werner Dafeldecker was born in 1964 in Vienna and studied double bass at the Vienna Conservatory between 1982 and 1985. He has been working as a freelance musician, composer and sound artist since 1986. In 1992 he founded the ensemble Polwechsel and the label Durian Records.
In the course of extensive cross-disciplinary projects and performances in the following years, his main interest was the expansion of instrument-specific playing techniques as well as the linking and manipulation of acoustic instruments by means of computer technology and other electronic formats.
Graphic scores for soloists and ensembles were created. His works are often derived from or inspired by extra-musical influences such as architecture, science or film.
In 2002 he received a DAAD scholarship and moved to Berlin in 2006.
In recent years he has concentrated on site-specific projects, field recordings, working with natural ambient sounds and their synthetic variants. In this context, he developed an extensive sound archive and created electroacoustic pieces for radio, film and other media works.
Around 70 sound carriers document his artistic development. He has presented his work in lectures and workshops at the University Bellas Artes - Madrid, Hochschule für Gestaltung-Karlsruhe, Wesleyan University- Connecticut, RMIT University- Melbourne and Edith Cowan University-Perth. Collaboration with, among others: Harold Budd, Tony Buck, David Silvian, Sunny Murray, John Tilbury, Sachiko M, Christian Fennesz, Patrick Pulsinger, Franz Hautzinger, Sven Åke Johansson, Hilary Jeffery, Axel Dörner, Lawrence English, Ekkehard Ehlers, Paul Lovens, Chris Abrahams, Christof Kurzmann, Stevie Wishart, Dean Roberts, George Lewis, John Butcher, Klaus Lang, Otomo Yoshihide, Kevin Drumm, Radu Malfatti, Andrea Neumann, Eugene Chadbourne, Burkhard Beins, Martin Brandlmayr, Andrea Belfi, Valerio Tricoli, Jim O Ŕ ourke, Gene Coleman, Splitter Orchester, Klangforum Wien
Discography at: http://www.dafeldecker.net/works/recordings.html
Lives in Berlin.
Katie Porter is a Brooklyn-based clarinetist, performer/composer, writer, and artist whose work draws from decades of experimental performance practices to create structures for music perception in space and time (over lifetimes or subtle daily increments/abstractions). She is currently a 2024 Artist-In-Residence at ISSUE Project Room. Devoted to collaboration, Katie's current projects include: Phase to Phase a bass clarinet duo with Lucio Capece in Berlin, Malosma a bass clarinet and bass flute duo with Christine Tavolacci in LA, Eternities with noise artist Bob Bellerue in NYC, Red Desert Ensemble with percussionist/composer Devin Maxwell, Quartet or Two Duos with James Ilgenfritz, Lucie Vítková, and Teerapat Parnmonkol in NYC, and MUD with poet/filmmaker Anne Penders (Brussels).
Passionate about fostering musical communities, she co-founded Listen/Space in Brooklyn, the Listen/Space Commissions in the mountains of Utah, and the biennial VU Symposium for experimental, electronic and improvised music. She has premiered works by John Luther Adams, Patricia Alessandrini, Judith Berkson, Laura Cetilia, Raven Chacon, Carolyn Chen, Andre Cormier, Nomi Epstein, Jurg Frey, Jennie Gottschalk, Daniel Goode, Brian Harnetty, John Hastings, Sarah Hennies, Yvette Janine Jackson, Manuela Meier, Phill Niblock, Michael Pisaro, Teodora Stepančić, Quentin Tolimieri, Christian Wolff, among others, and is responsible for commissioning over 50 new works for mixed chamber ensemble. She has performed with heroes such as: Olivia DePrato, Vinny Golia, Peter Gordon, Annea Lockwood, Alvin Lucier, Roscoe Mitchell, James Tenney, Yasunao Tone, and often performs rarely heard works by Johanna Beyer, Morton Feldman, and Giacinto Scelsi.
She has played in many US & International groups, festivals, and venues, both storied and underground such as: Abrons Art Center, American Mavericks, Centre Acanthes, C4NM, Columbia University, Cornell University, Duke University, Green Umbrella Series, Ghost Ensemble, Fridman Gallery, Human Resources, Indexical, Issue Project Room, Kenyon College, The Kitchen, KLANGRAUM, KM28 Berlin, L Collective, Lincoln Center, Liquid Music Series, LOLA, NOVA Chamber Music, Ostravská Banda, Piano+, MOMA PS1, Roulette, The Stone, SOUND at the Schindler House, and SEM Ensemble. She can be heard on the labels Another Timbre (UK), Gravity Wave / Erstwhile (US), Edition Wandelweiser (DE), FTARRI (Japan), Infrequent Seams (US), Karl Records (DE), Editions Verde (US), Harmonic Ooze Records
(US), and her writings are published in the journal Sound American. Katie is working to record a giant multi-year project for solo clarinet in Nancy Holt's land artwork, Sun Tunnels, in the remote Utah desert.
Lucio Capece is an Argentinian musician based in Berlin since 2004.
Since 2010 he dedicates to offer works focused in the Perception experience, that he performs mainly in solo and in the context of occasional collaborations based in the same interest. He composes his own pieces that may include improvisation and different ways of writing. He uses tools like Flying Speakers hanging from Helium Balloons moved by propellers, Speakers as Pendulums, Analog synthesiser, Sine Waves and Noise Generators, Drum Machines, Ultra- Violet Lights, Sensors as much as the instruments that he has played for 25 years: Bass Clarinet and Soprano and Slide Saxophone.
Beyond instrumentation and tools, the main intention is to focus in the physical-social-spatial human experience.
Between the late 90 ́s and 2010 he offered music in the context of Electro Acoustic Improvisation, focused in quietness, attentive listening and granular material. Capece has been very active in the Reductionist Improvised Music scene in Berlin (collaborations with Annette Krebs, Andrea Neumann, Werner Dafeldecker, Christian Kesten ), and in the radical minimal scene related with the collective Wandelweiser collaborating mainly as member of the collective Konzert Minimal (2008- 2018) and, since 2006 with Radu Malfatti.
In a parallel way Capece developed a 10 years collaboration with legendary Finnish musician Mika Vainio from Pan Sonic, working and releasing radical abstract and beats oriented music as a duo and two different quartets.
Capece has performed his own sound interventions in spaces like Kraftwerk Berlin ( The Long Now - Maerz Musik), Hau Berlin (CTM festival), The Cathedral of Bern (Zoom In Festival) The Mambo Museum in Bologna (Live Arts week ),the German Pavilion built by Mies Van der Rohe in Barcelona (Sonar +D Festival), the Halle d ‘Expositions built by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel in Evreux, France (ĹÁtelie series) the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin (directing a piece in which together with musicians Axel Dörner and Robin Hayward performed with the kinetic sculpture called “Licht-Raum Modulator” built by Lászlò Moholy-Nagy) , and the Colón Theatre in Buenos Aires where he offered an interactive installation for children.
Since 2020 he plays mainly in the context of small Ensembles where he composes the music, or collaborates with others performerscomposers like Rahma Quartet, From Scratch New Discantus Quintet, Lost Jockey and Phase to Phase. His goal in this context is to reconsider Music making in a Phenomenological way, re- searching in the basic elements that make Music be. He offers currently a Sampler solo set based in a personal research in Just Intonation Ratios, folding and unfolding sounds from Pitch to Pulse and vice versa.
He has performed as a musician in recognised experimental music festivals and venues in Europe, USA, Japan, Mexico and Argentina. He has released around 35 Cds and Lps, including 9 solo releases, in labels like Mego Editions, B-Boim (Austria), Pan (Germany), Ftarri (Japan) Another Timbre, Entr ́acte ( UK), Potlatch, (France), Erstwhile (USA), Intonema (Russia), etc.