Listen, I don’t know much about science, but one thing I do know is wormholes are dangerous and unstable and often result in the folks from Star Trek getting into “space jams” of a wacky and treacherous sort. So you’ll understand my skepticism at the proposition of the originally-based-in-Poland Unsound Festival trying to throw cracks into the space-time continuum by way of putting on alternate versions of the festival all around the world, for example in Adelaide, Australia, and now in New York (this is the fourth version of the event in New York after a break last year). Before you try to tell me something like, “Dude, they’re just putting on festivals, no science tricks,” I’ll warn you that I’m pretty committed to believing this so just let me finish.
So, more details on the New York festival so you can either attend it (because the music part seems like it will be pretty cool) or avoid it, because, like most reasonable people, you fear unstable inter-dimensional pathways (n.b. though, if my calculations are correct and Unsound is successful, there won’t be a safe place in the universe and we’ll all be instantaneously ground to space bits). The festival will feature a whole bunch of musicians who are super cool and will probably make TMT readers’ little ears perk right up, including Oren Ambarchi, Suzanne Ciani, copeland, Demdike Stare, Stara Rzeka, and Huerco S. That’s not even all of them! That’s just as many as I felt like typing because my fingers got tired! A full list of the performers is available on the festival’s Facebook event page (a full website with additional details is forthcoming). The festival organizers have also partnered with The Wire to include a compilation CD entitled Tunnels (a reference to the wormholes the event’s organizers are attempting to create) featuring many of the performers with the magazine’s April issue.
Presented in conjunction with Fundacja Tone and the Polish Cultural Institute New York, the whole deal will take place between Wednesday, April 2 and Sunday, April 6. Remember that when the universe collapses, time will be meaningless, so it’s up to you if you want to mark your calendar or wait until every instant from all of time is happening simultaneously. The performances will take place in venues in Brooklyn and Manhattan including the ISSUE Project Room and Cameo Gallery, but, like time, space will also collapse into a functionally massless point once the wormholes open, so no worries about catching the train or anything.
• Unsound: http://www.unsound.pl
More about: Demdike Stare, Huerco S., Lolina, Oren Ambarchi, Stara Rzeka, Suzanne Ciani
