JAZZWERKSTATT WIEN

Country: Austria
Address: Wallensteinstraße 40/40 1200
Phone Number: +43 699 12 16 22 02, +43699 10 57 52 17
Fax Number: none
email address: info@jazzwerktstatt.at, clemenswenger@mac.com
website: Jazzwerkstatt.com, www.jazzwerkstatt-records.com
date of creation: October 2004

Founding members/members of the organisational team:
Clemens Wenger ::: Bernd Satzinger ::: Clemens Salesny ::: Peter Rom ::: Daniel Riegler ::: Wolfgang Schiftner

Bands (leader, names, instruments):
Number of musicians that have been involved in Jazzwerkstatt-Collaborations is about 250.
there are many, many bands and projects going on in the Jazzwerkstatt-Pool, it would be too much to present all of them here.

Some of the bands that released on JazzwerkstattRecords:
• Peter Rom Trio: Peter Rom, guit ::: Raphael Preuschl, bass ::: Jörg Mikula, drums
• Kelomat: Wolfgang Schiftner, reeds ::: Bernd Satzinger, bass ::: Herbert Pirker, drums
• Studio Dan: Daniel Riegler, compositions, conductor ::: Gund Jäch-Micko, violine ::: Julia Purgina, viola ::: Maiken Beer, cello ::: Bernd Satzinger, contrabass ::: Theresia Melichar, oboe ::: Maria Gstättner, bassoon ::: Clemens Salesny, clarinets ::: Wolfgang Schiftner, saxophone ::: Martin Eberle, trumpet ::: Philip Yaeger, trombone ::: Peter Rom, guitar ::: Clemens Wenger, piano, synth ::: Margit Schoberleitner, marimba, extended percussion ::: Leo Riegler, electronics ::: Tibor Kövesdi, e-bass ::: Wolfgang Kendl, drums
• Duo Salesny/Wenger: Clemens Salesny, reeds ::: Clemens Wenger, piano, electronics
• Salesny/Joos/Schabbata/Preuschl: Clemens Salesny, reeds ::: Herbert Joos, trumpet ::: Woody Schabbata, vibes ::: Raphael Preuschl, bass
• Bernd Satzinger`s Wurschtsemmerl: Bernd Satzinger, bass ::: Phillip Jagschitz, keys, electronics ::: Christian Grobauer, drums

For all releases on JazzwerkstattRecords
Please go to: www.jazzwerkstatt-records.at/en/catalogue/

Do you have a structure to coordonate your activities (non-profite organisation, company? name and quality of the board):
The organisational team consists of the 6 founding members of the collective:
Clemens Wenger ::: Bernd Satzinger ::: Clemens Salesny ::: Peter Rom ::: Daniel Riegler ::: Wolfgang Schiftner

Technical buildings, means, material park (amplifiers, instruments, fly-boxes…)
One room for storage, archive etc........
8 external hard-drives for music archive

Activities:
The artistic secretariat/organisational team consists of the 6 founding members of the collective:
Clemens Wenger ::: Bernd Satzinger ::: Clemens Salesny ::: Peter Rom ::: Daniel Riegler ::: Wolfgang Schiftner

Programs for outside promoters (such as "wean hean" or "Impulstanz") are produced as well as own programs and cd-productions

Training courses, master-classes, teaching,: interventions
The JazzwerkstattWien-Collective is and already has been involved in several
Workshops(Jazzworkshop Viktring, Jeunesse-Workshop Zwettl, Jazzworkshop Tulln............) all over Austria.

Label:
JazzWerkstatt Records-Label and Music Industry?Collaborations with sound engineers in coordination with recording engineer Werner Angerer ensure highly professional multitrack recordings of concerts, serving as documentation and demo-material for ensembles as well as adequate material for CD-Productions. Products of JazzWerkstatt Records include a yearly compilation, presenting a representative cross section of projects and four CD-productions of selected ensembles. In addition to Internet distribution, Lotus Records has turned out to be a strong partner in distribution of Cds and DVDs – to ensure these works are available to a large quantity of potential customers.
The Label JazzWerkstatt Records was established in 2004 ( HYPERLINK  www.jazzwerkstatt-records.com )
for the purpose of documentation and distribution of some of the musical output of this initiative, The non puristic philosophy dealing with Jazz and Improvised Music leads to a great stilistic scope, a new generation of Austrian composers and musician is producing music, aside from dated classification in categories.

Diffusion:
owner of a club, a festival

Decision-making processes:
Who decides, according to which procedure (consensus, individual initiatives, vote?):
To make a decision a majority vote (4 of 6) of the members of the organisational team is needed.

Financing in 2008:
Subsidies

The "philosophy" of the project, its history:
JazzWerkstatt Wien was founded in 2004 by Daniel Riegler, Peter Rom, Bernd Satzinger, Clemens Wenger, Wolfgang Schiftner and Clemens Salesny with the ambition to establish a professional platform for creation and presentation of Music by young composers, musicians and ensembles (Jazz, Improvisation, Composition)

The Label JazzWerkstatt Records was established in 2004 ( HYPERLINK  www.jazzwerkstatt-records.com)
for the purpose of documentation and distribution of some of the musical output of this initiative, The non puristic philosophy dealing with Jazz and Improvised Music leads to a great stilistic scope, a new generation of Austrian composers and musician is producing music, aside from dated classification in categories.

2006: Hans Koller Prize, "Newcomer of the Year"
2008: Fair Music Award alongside "Col legno", "Klangforum Wien" and "Honest Jon´s Records"

Festival Credits include New Jazz Festival Moers ::: Jazzfest Wiesen ::: Jazzfestival Saalfelden (Opener 2007!) ::: Jazzfest Wien ::: JazzWerkstatt Bern ::: WDR-Jazznight ::: Wiener Festwochen ::: EURO 2008 (...)

Planning, Organisation and Realisation of JazzWerkstatt events in Vienna at WUK once a year starting 2005: Events ranged from 10 to 24 days and attracted an audience of over 9000 with over 150 musicians involved. These events served as important focus point for new ensembles, compositions and initiatives and has been a role model for similar events in Graz and Bern.

In a few words, please describe the origin and the objective of the collective: gathering on political bases ::: trade-union ::: aesthetic ::: geographical…?
"JazzWerkstatt Wien" understands itself as a center for invention and production of music, not as a promoter or concert host. Our goal is to advance development of original music, everything between Improvisation and Compostion – and to provide professional infrastructure. Last but not least an adjustment oft the term "Jazz", a correction of the public image is part of our activities. With all due love and respect to Tradition we do not want to take part in the styles and categories game. We do not engage in the preservation of historical monuments, we are not part of the modern movement trying to market Jazzmusic in Fashion magazines – we see Jazz as a timeless form of art, constantly trying to reinvent itself...

Thank you to also specify if the structure is opened or closed, which are the conditions to access it (co-optation, vote,…) if there is various statutes within the collective…
There are already 2 new collectives who used JazzwerkstattWien as a Role Model to start their own.
Check out:
Jazwerkstatt Graz  www.jazzwerkstattgraz.com/
Jazzwerkstatt Bern (Switzerland)  www.jazzwerkstatt.ch/