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.
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.
Phantanoise© Artist WIEN
Having been involved with surrealism all his life – initially “naturally” in poetry – Phantanoise© Artist brings essential creative means of the roughly hundred-year-old thought construct into music.
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.
Paul Rogers
Paul Rogers, born in 1956, is a British bassist and composer. He worked with many notable musicians, including Elton Dean, Keith Tippett, Stan Tracey, and Evan Parker, Gerry Hemingway, Don Byron, and Myra Melford.
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.
Nicky Kokkoli
Nicky Kokkoli was born in Athens, Greece. She is an active member of the Greek Jazz and Free improvisational music scene, developing her own solo projects as well as participating in various music ensembles.
Maruska Ronchi
Free improvisation, to me, stands as the most genuine and intimate manifestation of dance expression, mirroring the complexities of real life itself.
Gero v. Randow
Gero prefers nonlinear behaving synthesizers and free improvisation. In 2023 he moved from Hamburg to Vienna, where he is a member of the Phantanoise Kollektiv and other musical projects. He prefers playing on stage with other musicians.
Ayşe Deniz Birdal
Ayşes aim with her music is to form an interdisciplinary artist identity, including playing the cello, composing, singing and poetry. She often uses her own works of poetry in her genre-crossing compositions including elements of contemporary classical music, improvisation and Turkish folk music as well as experimental, spiritual and poetical elements.
Vanessa Mattei Scapaccini
Vanessa Mattei Scarpaccini is a young artist who explores the gifts the body can offer to space, time, and their rhythm.
She grew up in the countryside of Tuscany with a Polish mother and an Italian father, and from a very young age, she began exploring movement languages, with a primary focus on contemporary dance. She has collaborated with musicians and art galleries, beginning to develop an approach based on the “state” as the starting point of every act of care that the body can manage.
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.
Yi-Wei Yang
Yi-Wei Yang is a Taipei-based Zheng player trained in classical and modern Chinese music, as well as traditional Taiwanese Beiguan and Nanguan, and free improvisational music. Currently, she is focusing on exploring the relationship between music and dance through improvisation, while incorporating experimental zheng technique and unorthodox textures.
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.
Jairo Enrique Benitez Habib
The colombian artist with syrian/lebanese roots was born into a society with strongs social and cultural changes. At the beginning, traditional latinoamerican folk inspire him. Later he went to Barcelona – a point of cultural development and musicians, painters, poets and artists of all kinds – as a part of this bohemian atmosphere.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
Vojta Drnek
Unique Czech jazz accordionist Vojta Drnek belongs to a group of musicians who are constantly stretching the boundaries of what is expected of their instrument. He is an artist who inspires performers of all ages to change the perception of the accordion and to bring its unexplored sounds to the world of modern music.
Emil Gross WIEN LIMMITATIONES
The young drummer is caught between experimental, rock, jazz, blues, free improvisation, rocksteady and world music.
Edith Steyer
Edith Steyer is a free improvising and composing clarinet and alto saxophone player with her roots in jazz and classical music. She prepares her instruments with music tools and elements from every day life. She also experiments and combines the prepared instruments with electronic devices and feedback.
Paulina Rewucka
Paulina is a freelance artist, collaborator and performer. She facilitates the “współ_pracownia” community based in Poland focusing on contemporary dance practices accompanied by activist events. Recently she worked with wellknown choreographers. She takes part in collective processes, co-creates an interdisciplinary group of artists “birds” and “hardening the jaws of tenderness”, the dance & music duo with Rémy Gouffault.
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.
Łukasz Marciniak
Guitarist, composer, improviser; meber of Trio_io, performing contemporary chamber music; of El Topo – a band exploring the intricacies of strings and the risks posed by drums and cymbals. Do-founder of Perforto and the trio Attack of the Mugatu – for guitar, cello and double bass.
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.