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…
Body Sculptures, Interviews, Series, Sound, Unsound
NICK ROTHWELL, blending code into dance for Wayne McGregor
Shall every age have a style of its own and our age alone be denied one? Having to define it though, one term comes to…
Unsound Krakow 2018: The Day After
Presence, the state or fact of existing, occurring or being present; a person or thing that exists or is present in…
TOMOKO SAUVAGE, exploring the sonic properties of water
Tomoko Sauvage, the Japan-born musician and artist, has been exploring sonic properties of water in different states for over ten years. The title of…
Digital Culture, News, Series, Sound, Unsound
Unsound Krakow 2018: Final line-up Highlights
At just a few days away to kick off, the final Unsound Kraków programme has just been announced with the final additions of the…
Biomedia, Interviews, Series, Unsound
GEZA SCHOEN, chemistry, smell, and art
Escentric Molecules, a project developed by the Berlin-based olfactory artist Geza Schoen is a project that highlights the still unfairly ignored Iso E Super…
LUCRECIA DALT, earthly encounters with sound and flesh
Liminality, borders, skin, geologic formations and, at the same time, identity and belonging, are some of the concepts experimental sound artist and musician Lucrecia Dalt…
Unsound Krakow 2018: First announcements
Unsound Krakow festival passes are going on sale tomorrow, 6th June at 4pm CEST, so be quick to grab them, as they usually sell…
Festival: Unsound Krakow 2018 PRESENCE
PRESENCE. Unsound just shared with us the theme for the 16th edition Unsound Krakow 2018 [1] – which we have been eagerly expecting….
RICHARD SKELTON, musical invocations of meditative landscapes
Nature’s cycles of life and decay are a fascinating subject. And interruptions in these processes are even more intriguing. At a young age, I…
Unsound Krakow 2017: The Day After
Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis.* Carl Linnaeus, Systema naturæ (1735) Wolfsbane, Nightshade,…