If the name of a city is listed next to the artist, this means that he/she is involved in this city and/or in the organization of Free Forms of Arts.
Christoph Wundrak
is a brassplayer, composer, arranger and instrumental teacher from Styria, Austria. As a player of high and low Brassinstruments he is and was member of several ensembles of different genres since the 1980ies.
Boris Janje
is a double bassist from Zagreb, Croatia, living and working in Ljubljana, Slovenia. For years, he has been researching, performing, composing and expanding the sonic and musical possibilities of his instrument …
Damir “Capri” Kafka ZAGREB
Saxophonist, pianist, improviser. As an improviser he performs in various international ad hoc line-ups in clubs and festivals in Croatia and Europe.
Cristiana Fusillo TRIESTE
I have been a dancer for a while and I call myself a free dancer. I started collaborating with Udo Preis in 2019 by organizing Free Forms evenings in Trieste. I felt the importance of waxing spaces and places where the arts could communicate and where artists could meet.
Roozbeh Nafisi
Roozbeh Nafisi is an artist using improvisation to explore the moment and develop compositions. Collage, mixed media and interdisciplinary are among words describing his craft. He plays santur and santur nimi, studied composition, santur and musicology and has been teaching since 1999.
Bostjan Perovsek LJUBLJANA
Boštjan Perovšek musician, composer and soundscape artist, composes experimental, electro acoustic music. He specialises in creating bio-acoustic music based on the sounds of animals, especially insects.
Antonis Anissegos BERLIN THESSALONIKI
Anissegos works in several projects, including Amoebas, the trio IAMA, Succulent Trash, 3 Spirits and Lynx, ΣΩΜΑ, ddaA, KAYA, Card Castle and oneone. His compositions have been performed by Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Piandaemonium, Ensemble Mosaik, Ensemble Cornucopia, Ensemble DissonArt, Thessaloniki State Orchestra, Athens Colour Orchestra and Junge Philharmonie Thüringen, among others.
Igor Gross
Igor started playing with the main Ensembles for contemporary music, as Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Phase, Ensemble 20. Jahrhundert, Ensemble Platypus, and is founder memberof the Black Page Orchestra,… . In the last years he has continuously expanded his repertoire of sounds on the vibraphone and various percussive instruments, that he combines with different electronic devises.
Udo Preis MASTERMIND
Udo is not sitting, he is standing. You can stand by your opinion – but you can’t sit by your opinion. Anyone who sits on a chair, left or right, is motionless. Udo stands by his opinion, but he is prepared to spend his whole life learning.
ChiaoHua Chang WIEN
Born in Taiwan, Chang has been living in Vienna as a freelance musician and erhu teacher since 2013. Before moving to Vienna, she had already gained 12 years of teaching experience by teaching erhu in Taiwan.
Nefeli Stamatogiannopoulou ATHEN
is a composer, performer and improviser based in Athens. She has composed her own pieces and music for many performances around the world and also for some films. She plays with several groups and travels around the world since she was 18 years old.
Pavel Zlámal BRNO
Clarinetist, saxophonist, improviser, composer based in Brno. In addition to his education in classical music, he mostly focuses on contemporary, experimental and improvised music. He works with a wide range of musical practices and tendencies – from jazz, freejazz, through contemporary aestetics, to the sound experiments and free improvisation.
Radim Hanousek BRNO
I consider free improvisation to be a complex art. In the speech of improvisers, all knowledge, skills, experience and human character come together. Quality improvisation requires a mature and creative artist who can suppress his ego, help create a collective work and who respects the aesthetics of the improvisational community. Improvising with such artists fills me with immense happiness.
Sepp Wejwar WIEN
Having been involved with surrealism all his life – initially “naturally” in poetry – Sepp Wejwar brings essential creative means of the roughly hundred-year-old thought construct into music.
Maruska Ronchi
Free improvisation, to me, stands as the most genuine and intimate manifestation of dance expression, mirroring the complexities of real life itself.
Tibor Feledi
It´s during our childhood when we are the most creative and free. Our imagination knows no boundaries. In common playgrounds, we experience the most magical moments and adventures that will not happen again.
Marton Palatinsky BUDAPEST
Márton Palatinszky is a scientist, working at the University of Vienna; and an underground musician. He plays the scenes in Budapest and Vienna especially with his bassclarinet.