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Butcher / Dafeldecker / Carroll - 17/10/25, 1:10pm, Aula Maxima, UCC
The new trio of John Butcher, Werner Dafeldecker, and Roy Carroll unites three singular voices. Butcher and Dafeldecker previously collaborated in Polwechsel, a group that redefined the boundaries between composition and improvisation through radical reduction and sonic precision.
Carroll and Dafeldecker’s work as Paroxysm delved into dense, timbre-focused explorations and psychoacoustic interplay. In this new formation, the trio combines forensic attention to sound with visceral intensity—fracturing time, form, and material. Their music unfolds as a tapestry of glistening details, unstable structures, and shifting acoustic perspectives.
John Butcher
Born in Brighton and living in London, John Butcher is a saxophonist whose work ranges through improvisation, his own compositions, multitracked pieces and explorations with feedback, unusual acoustics and non-concert locations. He is well known as a solo performer who attempts to engage with a sense of place. Resonant Spaces, for example, is a collection of performances recorded during a tour of unusual locations in Scotland and the Orkney Islands.
Werner Dafeldecker
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.
Roy Carroll
Roy Carroll is a musician / composer working with electroacoustic media, which is broadly a set of materials and processes that includes amplification, transducers, synthesis, feedback, audio recordings, software, - auditory and psychoacoustic phenomena even. Feedback, the horror of an instrument hearing itself, is a recurring component of Carroll's work, creating multi-layered forms that continually renegotiate the transformation of electrical audio signals into disturbed air. Roy is based in Berlin.
Tour dates:
16 Oct: Belfast, SARC
17 Oct: Cork, FUAIM, UCC
17 Oct: Cork, The Guesthouse
18 Oct: Dublin, Kirkos / The Complex
19 Oct: Dublin, Hugh Lane Gallery
21 Oct: London, Hundred Years Gallery