Barcelona based website Playground have now released some great footage of workshops and rehearsals for the project "Music for Solaris," which includes some sneak preview fragments from the music itself. These are part of a documentary filmed at Unsound Festival Krakow last year, investigating the idea of "Horror - the pleasure of fear and unease."
The work was composed by Ben Frost and Daniel Bjarnason, in collaboration with the Krakow orchestra Sinfonietta Cracovia. It is inspired by the book "Solaris" by Krakow writer Stanislaw Lem, as well as the Tarkovsky film adaptation of the same name; "Music for Solaris" also features "film" manipulations by Brian Eno and Nick Robertson drawing on the Tarkovsky film.
The US debut of "Solaris" will be performed at the opening of Unsound Festival New York on Wed April 6 at Alice Tully Hall Lincoln Center, as part of an opening night presented with Sacrum Profanum, Unsound's sister festival from Krakow, and organized with the Krakow Festival Office and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. Sinfonietta Cracovia will also perform the music of Steve Reich and Krszystof Penderecki.
Sinfonietta Cracovia will also perform work by the Polish composer Gorecki on April 7 at Judson Church, on a night supported by Norwegian duo Deaf Center.
Right now Unsound Labs is underway in New York as a lead-up to the festival opening.

Unsound Festival New York is presented by Fundacja Tone, the Polish Cultural Institute in New York and the Goethe-Institut New York

In Cooperation With The Trust For Mutual Understanding, The Adam Mickiewicz Institute, City of Krakow, Krakow Festival Office, 6 Senses, Austrian Cultural Forum in New York, Instituto Cervantes New York, Consulate General of Finland in New York, Royal Consulate of Norway New York, Pro Helvetia and others