Surff festival
ONE WEEK FESTIVAL OF POSTCONTEMPORARY MUSIC, JAZZ, BEATS, VISUAL ART, PHILOSOPHY, DANCE, POLITICS, OBJECT THEATRE, INSTALLATION AND FRESHNESS
ZUR SCHÖNEN AUSSICHT celebrates its 10th birthday with Subwater Beats, Jazzkollektiv Berlin, Future Bash Series, KIM Collective, Free Movements London and much more
Postcontemporary Jazz / Subwater Beats Band „Zur Schönen Aussicht“ (ZSA) with composer/guitarist Joachim Wespel, Paul Berberich (saxophone) and Florian Lauer (drums) are all about discovering new grounds not only within the realm of Jazzmusic but also including exceptional concepts involving audience interaction, locations and interdisciplinary cooperations.
From 21st to 26th Janauary 2019 Zur Schönen Aussicht will share each nights line up with 2+ bands, special guests and surprise interventions as well as socio-political presentations located at up-and-coming Petersburg Art Space in Berlin-Moabit.
Cooperation and exchange are key to the makers of the festival. SURfF features various collectives such as KIM Collective, Jazzkollektiv Berlin, Future Bash Series, Free Movements London and Subwater Beats Kollektiv.
The festival provides an outlook to the question: How does non-mainstream music today and in the future function afar from aged business-, venue- and audience-structures?
An open-minded, diverse, interdisciplinary and entertaining yet challenging program, including space for philosophical and political contemplation, paired with an extraordinary interior in a club atmosphere make for the sought-after sideeffect of attracting and fascinating a younger audience. Having organized several alike, successful festivals in the past, ZSA are among the forefront of reinventing options to thrive in a business subject to fundamental changes.
In addition to music acts the SURfF festival will feature object theatre, dance performances, surprise flash mobs, live visuals, presentations on xenofeminism, democracy, philosophy, art installations and unique stage design.
For the thrilling final Saturday night subculture collective „Subwater Beats“ will join and deliver fresh, outstanding, handmade beat- and dancemusic. Subwaters goal is to combine club nights with post-avantgarde and cooperative philosophies. An awareness-team will support a fair and reflected atmosphere for all guests.
Because of positive experiences from past years thanks to a beautiful network of friends and colleagues and with the help of funding, Zur Schönen Aussicht can confidently look forward to a post-contemporary, selforganized foundation for a future that makes challenges turn into possibilities.
Some own thoughts on SURfF Festival
First of all many many many thanks to all artists, helpers, people coming to the festival, partners, sponsors, collectives, journalists, hosts and organizers. It was an endless crazy experience!!!!!!!!!
And even after three festivals in Kukulida, Dresden a totally unique and fresh thing arised, which was absolutely worth to put all my energy, time, love, knowledge, abilities and non-abilities, haha.
Not me, not Zur Schönen Aussicht, not Subwater Beats, not everyone else did it. WE DID IT!!!!
What SURfF and Subwater Beats tries, does, dreams of, claims, wants, likes:
- Thinking from the future to the present
- Encouraging to do stuff you like (with a big heart and global sense)
- Changing or fighting the status quo
- Bringing new thoughts and answers to the unsolved music buisness problems
- Showing that we can change things, affecting apperently stiff structures
- Bringing a new, fresh and lovely vibe to events
- Bringing people (from different sectors) together
- Showing that multidisciplinarity is an answer
- Being transparent
- Bringing new audience to an old musical term
- Experimenting (with trial and error)
- Being postcontemporary
- Making new friends
- Pointing out that feudal capitalism, oligarchies, racism, nationalism, patriarchy, mega-authorities,
dominance of human beings, inequality is everywhere, the music buisness is not at all a exception
- Self organizing in a group instead of profiling
- Showing that music, philosophy, politics, (xeno)feminism, different arts can/need work together
- Being lovely, respectful, open, fresh
- Bringing together collectives
- Using complex systems in music (Multiple Dimensions Concept)
- Pluralism, marco-systems, holism
- Being creative with using everything as an inspiration
- Exchange (also as a fundament of sympathy and respect)
Another personal note:
I try to be transparent, to give my best for society and to be encouraging for others in the most positive way I can do.
Maybe some of you are interested what I did the last 10 weeks. A random selection of tasks I did as an organizer and artist for around 3€ an hour.
Playing music, moving beer boxes, cleaning up slopped drinks from the floor, putting new sheets for the guests, hanging decoration, running from a to b, installing lights, bargaining, arguing, writing 250 mails, answering 200 mails, writing 250 SMS, writing 200 more messages, having 450 calls with artists, helpers, hosts, press, piano transport companies, the orga crew, about screws, press texts, open doors times, change, the festival concept, how many chairs we need, how long the event room should be open, how much the drinks are, how to feed around 30 people every day, how to bring stuff from Dresden to Berlin, which microphones we need, when we get an answer about the fundings, how long shall be the aftermovie, who we gonna interview, how many lights we need, how many people do we need to bring to the festival (money-wise), how can we bring people to the venue, who is responisble for what, who has a money box, where can we drill, where to spend money for advertising, pre-selling, what do we ask our special guests of politics, feminism, philosophy, which drinks do we offer to the artists, which songs we play will, when we can rehearse, why are we doing this at all, what allergics artists have, how to come to the radio station, what is interdisciplinary, what is postcontemporary, why we are postcontemporary, which amplifiers we need, how high the tables for the artists have to be, where can we get a mixer, where can we get a soundsystem, who can help to move cables, monitors and stuff, who can moderate, how big the posters shall be, how big the symbol of the funding has to be, which band we put first or last on the flyers, which journalist should be invited, how much are the fees, how much should be the tickts, if we will wear something special, where to smoke, who could to flash mops, who could rap on our tunes, when the artists need to come, who will receive the guests, how many stamps we need for the entrance, how to tell the people in a nice way that we want the people to respect each other, which train artists should take, how should the website look like, if we use facebook ads, if we need a symbol or a corporate design, if the website is in https or http, ...