The basic framework conditions for FREE FORMS OF ARTS & JUST MUSIC festivals

If you want to participate as a member of the FREE FORMS OF ARTS MUSIC POOL, this always includes travel costs for those traveling, overnight stays, private or in a hotel or airbnb. a kind of self-booking for the artists; limited by our budget of course. the so-called prerequisites for participation are:

  • either recommendation
    by artists from the pool; or
  • self-invitation.
    in this case we would like to ask all you “newcomers” that all those who come to our meetings for the first time do so of their own accord:
  • first study our philosophy and
  • secondly, listen to our VIDEOS.
    They offer music, dance, painting and poetry (including videos from the laboratories) over many years and give a very good insight into our work and philosophy.
  • Get in touch with those artists who have been indulging in the genre FREE FORMS OF ARTS for a long time.
  • Look at the examples of musicians playing and or singing freely at our post “A musical style” in our philosophy.

Here is some information for everyone, because we currently have got the feeling that after years of development of JUST MUSIC/4STSSSSS, many musicians do not have an overview and insight into what is actually happening.

JUST MUSIC/ FREEFORMS of ARTS started about 2 decades ago as a network for the artists (musicians, dancers, writers, painters) of free forms/radical improvisation. it was conceived so that

  • The synergy of solidarity becomes effective
  • That the free forming artists can be more mobile and this has become even more important to us since corona
  • To be able to play more concerts, because there are very limited possibilities within the avant-garde
  • Therefore we organized places like Maribor, Kumrovec, Dunajska Streda, Sarvar, Budapest, Berlin, Vienna, Heiligenkreuz, Trieste, Brno, Prague,Zagreb…
  • And we have now developed tree “tracks” or “pillars” to create more access points and to bring the collaboration between the artists to a more personal level:
    • Monthly meetings in the cities
    • festivals; currently Heiligenkreuz, 2024 also in Katowice, Poland and hopefully soon again in Ljubljana and Trieste. This has resulted in many new contacts with musicians, new venues new bands emerged and musical ideas; many high-quality recordings for the artists and also many new CDs.

And we offer or try to organize more:

  • Travel expense, accommodation and food/drink; lots of advertising in magazines, radio and television
  • Joint activities in the social media as youtube, soundcloud, facebook, telegram, X, instagram,…
  • We always develop a philosophical background,
  • Photos by professional photographers are made, also 
  • Recordings, some of them mastered on high quality by Iztok Zupan and Emil Gross: some recordings mastered by Iztok became CDs.
  • And of course: large amounts of free working time! Musicians, sound engineers, label owners, organizers, photographers, marketers, web-designers…
  • More concerts at other organizers, such as future ridmo concerts at porgy&bess. 

For FREE FORMS OF ARTS we invest per year

  • many days to raise the money and to pay for it
  • 1000s of free working hours in the cities, at the festivals, for recordings, masters, video edits
  • And we currently spend around 20,000 euros to cover all the costs for travel, accommodation, food and drink, backline, sound equipment, hire, fees and much more.