2003 wasn’t just the year after Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. 2003 was the year Unsound Krakow started up, a festival that, according to its website, “is interested in the idea of cross-border collaboration, and thinking of the festival as a tool for commissioning and fostering new work.” 2010 wasn’t just the year before Strobo Trip. 2010 was the year Unsound New York cropped up, an offshoot of the Krakow festival that somehow brings together everything “from contemporary classical music to post-industrial sounds to black metal to new directions in bass driven club music.”
This year’s festival will take place April 18-22 across five different venues: BAMcinématek, (Le) Poisson Rouge, Public Assembly, Lincoln Center, and ISSUE Project Room. The lineup includes a number of artists from Eastern Europe as well as plenty from the USA and the UK: 2562, Actress, Baaba, Black Rain, Biosphere, Tomek Choloniewski, Dave Q, Demdike Stare, Distal, Eltron John, Jeremy Grimshaw, Laurel Halo, Heat Wave, Hieroglyphic Being, Mark Van Hoen, Julia Holter, Jenny Hval, Hype Williams, Inner Tube, Ital, Jacaszek, Julia Kent, Denis Kolokol, Kotra, Lustmord, LXMP, Maria Minerva, Monolake, Napszyklat, Next Life, Nguzungzu, Nondor Nevai, Peaking Lights, Andrea Pensado, Pole, Sepalcure, Sun Araw, Teeth, Throwing Snow, Dave Tompkins, Nate Wooley, Zemi17, and Zavoloka.
Any of those strike your fancy? Hit up the Unsound website for individual tickets (some of the events are free!!!)
Unsound Festival New York 2012 is presented by Fundacja Tone, the Polish Cultural Institute in New York, and the Goethe-Institut New York.
• Unsound: http://unsound.pl/en
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