Special Projects at Unsound this year included the installations at Erdal Factory, as well as a presentation of commissioned work by Polish and German VJ's, at the Unsound club nights. Both these program elements are part of the "Systems" project, and described below.
As well, on 22.10.2009, at No Visa Required in Mangggha, Unsound will launch the CD "Connections". Co-curated by scape records and Unsound, and supported by the ECF, this CD contains tracks from Western European and Belarus electronic music producers and musicians working together. Free copies of the CD will be given out on the night. The National Fanfare of Kadebostany will perform, one of the projects on the CD, linking Kadebostan (CH) and Rational Diet (BY). This project was further supported by Pro Helvetia, and will have a record release on Mental Groove. This is their world premier.

Commissioned VJ Program - A selection of VJ's were chosen by Berlin's Club Transmediale and Unsound, to interpret the theme "Systems". Polish VJ's include Pussy Krew and Pani K . German VJ's include

"Systems" Installations - Three very different installations that relate to the communist past, as well as hope for the present and future. All the art works interpret the idea of connections made across borders, openness. This includes: a sound recording work made in Minsk, Belarus, and commissioned by Unsound; a work making reference to Chernobyl in Ukraine; and a work about the importance of a collaborative future for the world. The exhibition includes:

“There are no others, there is only us” -Marc Silver (UK) and Ben Frost (IS / AU)
This is a film and sound installation that shows thousands of birds moving as one, as a metaphor for a collaborative future.
The film can be experienced with the 9-minute film soundtrack made by Ben Frost, or with one of three commissioned alternate soundtracks made by Jacazek (PL), Tomasz Bednarczyk (PL) and Denis Kolokol (UA).
This is a project about open borders, closed for so long in Europe during the communist period.

“Anion” - Jacob Kirkegaard
The work of a well-known Danish artist focusing on Chernobyl, Ukraine, where a nuclear power plant accident occurred that had an important role in bringing about the end of communism. It also makes comments on change in general, and regime change.
The video and sound work unfolds four abandoned spaces inside the Zone of Exclusion in Chernobyl. It deals with a sonic and visual experience of time, absence, and change - in an area haunted by an invisible and inaudible danger, amidst the slowly decaying remains of human civilization.

"Plant Shift" - Kassian Troyer 
The sound artist Kassian Troyer was commissioned by Unsound to make recordings in Minsk in September 2008. This sound installation is the result of that work. Troyer made his recordings at an unmarked site where Stalin buried victims of his regime.
The placement of this piece in the context of the exhibition not only refers to the history of communism, it is also a statement on the current political situation in Minsk.