Unsound Kraków 2021: The Day After
In 2018, it was the last time I travelled to Kraków without a Covid-19 passport on hand. Presence was the theme of Unsound Festival already…
Unsound Kraków 2021: Highlights
The theme for this year’s edition of Unsound festival is dəəp authentic—the gradual shift back from online to IRL events, a phrase that involves a…
ELI KESZLER, capturing the transitory edge of stillness
Experimental percussionist, composer and visual artist Eli Keszler challenges the reminiscence of the past two years through his latest project, Icons, out now via Lucky…
Open Call: Unsound 2021 ‘Dəəp Authentic’
Unsound festival have just announced the new theme for the 2021 editions, plus a call for entries from artists, writers, theorists and activists in response…
UNSOUND 2020: Machine Listening sessions with Liquid Architecture
Machine Listening, a curriculum is a new investigation and experiment in collective learning instigated by artist Sean Dockray, legal scholar James Parker and curator Joel Stern…
Unsound 2020: Highlights
Unsound festival returns for another edition in less than two weeks. Adapting to the unpredictable circumstances the team this year has pushed their creativity again…
Discussion Series and Workshops: Unsound LAB
Unsound recently announced a pre-festival Discussion Series and Workshops, Unsound LAB. The series, which already started on 23rd July, aims to address the current crises…
Open Call: Unsound 2020 Discourse Program
Unsound 2020 is taking place between October 4th – 11th and this year’s theme is Intermission —a break in a performance or production, that this…
Unsound Kraków 2019: The Day After
Unsound Krakow 2019 closed last 13th October one of their best editions not only for the line-up but also for the theme chosen —Solidarity —….
Computing Art, Interviews, Sound, Unsound
SAM ROLFES, L’Enfant terrible of digital arts
American artist Sam Rolfes plays musical chairs, switching between the roles of an experimental electronic musician, 3-D animator, VR performer, graphic designer, director and also…
Festival: Unsound NYC 2019
Without resting much after Unsound Krakow, Unsound is set to return to New York on November 22nd and 23rd. Unsound produced five major events in…
EMPTYSET, from the algorithmic to the architectural—filling the spaces between our ears
Can you automate the production of music? Can something intricate and moving be composed with the help of AI? For many, the almost invisible iterations…
Unsound Krakow 2019: Highlights
In less than two weeks, another edition of Unsound Krakow will be taking place. Solidarity is this year’s theme of the festival that will take…
Audio & Visual, Series, Sound, The CLOTMix, Unsound
CLOT Mix: Unsound presents SOTE
For our seventh instalment, Sote (Ata Ebtekar), one of the most prominent current Iranian composers and sound artists has prepared a mix inspired by Unsound…
Computing Art, Interviews, Unsound
EZRA MILLER, re-contextualising experiences in real-time
Born in 1996, Ezra Miller’s design practice has risen into the public eye rapidly. The recipient of an ADC Young Guns prize at just 20…
Digital Culture, News, Series, Sound, Unsound
Performance: Robert Henke’s CBM 8032 AV premiere at Unsound Krakow
Thinking about the appeal of the minimalism of code, when artists began to explore computers as a medium in the 1950s, technology was limited and…
Interviews, Series, Sound, Unsound
FÉLICIA ATKINSON, on the sonic poetics of absence
Pregnancy is an underlying motive in The Flower & The Vessel, Félicia Atkinson´s just-released new album. A theme that has historically been neglected in arts,…
Open Call: Unsound 2019 Discourse Program
Unsound 2019 is taking place between October 6th – 13th and this year’s theme is solidarity. The starting point to explore what solidarity means…
Interviews, Sound, Thinkers, Unsound
DEFORREST BROWN JR, radical practices for ‘rythmanalitical’ speculative theories
DeForrest Brown is a New York based music writer, curator and media theorist. His work blends the production of music with technology and social experience….
Design, Interviews, Sound, Unsound
Insight: ALEKSANDRA GRüNHOLZ, the allure of the dark and the grotesque
When we cannot make sense out of all the information, with which we are bombarded each day. When we cannot use reason to comprehend the…