Opening Unsound / Michael Nyman's SUBLIME

World-famous composer Michael Nyman is best known for soundtracks for Peter Greenaway films, as well as Jane Campion’s “The Piano”. For the first time on such a scale, “Sublime” offers another view of this unique artist, revealing a video and sound installation.

Tickets: By Invitation

Warhol Series 1 - EMPIRE

An 8 hour show, screened and performed at the time Warhol begun shooting “Empire”, his static shot of the Empire State Building throughout a single night.

Tickets: Free

Michael Nyman's SUBLIME

World-renowned composer Michael Nyman is best known for his soundtracks for Peter Greenaway films, as well as Jane Campion’s “The Piano”. For the first time on such a large scale, “Sublime” offers another view of this unique artist, revealing his video and sound installation. Open 14:00 - 18:00.

Tickets: Free

Installation Opening - Zimmerstreich mit Schlagsahne

Suppose a room’s interior is the resonance body of an instrument. How should the instrument look in order to sound good? An installation that interactively investigate the sound of a room - with and without the participation of an audience. The opening will also feature a live performance by the artists.

Tickets: Free

Warhol Series 2 - BLOWJOB

Stefan Nemeth (Radian, Lokai) recently released "Film", mapping a sonic terrain of acoustic and programmed instruments. He is joined by Steven Hess (Pan American) and Martin Siewert (Trapist) to perform a parallel concert made of electronics, percussion and guitar for Warhol’s classic film.

Tickets: 15 zl

Zimmerstreich mit Schlagsahne

Suppose a room’s interior is the resonance body of an instrument. How should the instrument look in order to sound good? An installation that interactively investigate the sound of a room - with and without the participation of an audience. Open 14:00 - 18:00.

Tickets: Free

Michael Nyman's SUBLIME

World-renowned composer Michael Nyman is best known for his soundtracks for Peter Greenaway films, as well as Jane Campion’s “The Piano”. For the first time on such a large scale, “Sublime” offers another view of this unique artist, revealing his video and sound installation. Open 14:00 - 18:00.

Tickets: Free

Warhol Series 3 - KISS

Warhol’s film Kiss will be screened with a live soundtrack by nsi. - Non Standard Institute - made up of Max Loderbauer (Sun Electric, Chica and the Folder) and Tobias Freund (Pink Elln, Sieg Uber Die Sonne). Loderbauer plays live piano, Freund uses electronics to process the sound.

Tickets: 15 zl

Workshop 1 - Music Journalism Workshop with Philip Sherburne

CANCELED - due to personal circumstances
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Tickets: Free

Michael Nyman's SUBLIME

World-renowned composer Michael Nyman is best known for his soundtracks for Peter Greenaway films, as well as Jane Campion’s “The Piano”. For the first time on such a large scale, “Sublime” offers another view of this unique artist, revealing his video and sound installation. Open 14:00 - 18:00.

Tickets: Free

Zimmerstreich mit Schlagsahne

Suppose a room’s interior is the resonance body of an instrument. How should the instrument look in order to sound good? An installation that interactively investigate the sound of a room - with and without the participation of an audience. Open 14:00 - 18:00.

Tickets: Free

Warhol Series 4 - Amos Poe's Empire II

Empire II has been called a “tone-poem meditation on the city of our dreams”; in it, legendary No Wave filmmaker Amos Poe remakes Warhol’s original film into what looks like a three-hour music video with New York City as the star. The whole film was shot over a year from a window of Poe’s West Village apartment.

Tickets: Free

ELEKTROWNIA DŹWIĘKÓW / SOUND STATION

Małe Instrumenty’s name translates as "Small Instruments", referring to the hundreds of toys and tiny instruments they usually perform with. For this special show – part concert and part installation - their "small instruments" are combined with huge self-made objects they also utilize to create unique music works.

Tickets: 20 zl

Zimmerstreich mit Schlagsahne

Suppose a room’s interior is the resonance body of an instrument. How should the instrument look in order to sound good? An installation that interactively investigate the sound of a room - with and without the participation of an audience. Open 14:00 - 18:00.

Tickets: Free

Michael Nyman's SUBLIME

World-renowned composer Michael Nyman is best known for his soundtracks for Peter Greenaway films, as well as Jane Campion’s “The Piano”. For the first time on such a large scale, “Sublime” offers another view of this unique artist, revealing his video and sound installation. Open 14:00 - 18:00.

Tickets: Free

Workshop 2 - Screen Tests Revisted - A Work In Progress

Lillevan explains the process of putting together Screen Tests Revisited, commissioned by Krakow and New York Goethe Institutes, to be performed for the first time in Maggha on Friday 24th. The presentation will involve filming participants for the project.

Tickets: Free

Panel 1 - Connections Project & Belarus

Connections is a project about forming collaborations between Belarus and Western European producers and musicians. Co-curated by scape and Unsound, a compilation of the fruit of this project is to be released in 2009. Some of those involved discuss the project, and the music scene in Belarus.

Tickets: Free

SoundScapes 1 - EVOCATIONS

Evocative music intersecting with contemporary audio culture. Legendary Australian trio The Necks use bass, piano and drums to play looping, improvisational pieces. Autistic Daughters graft experimental concepts onto disquieting pop and rock structures. Canadian Mark Templeton fuses guitar, field recordings and sampled audio.

Tickets: 20 zl

Placard Headphone Festival

Placard Headphone Festival has set up all over the world. For the first time, Placard comes to Unsound, to include fresh names from Poland’s electronic and experimental music scenes. Enter Klub Re’s darkened bunker to connect to headphone concerts, simultaneously streamed live on-line. For program and performance times visit www.leplacard.org

Tickets: Free

Michael Nyman's SUBLIME

World-renowned composer Michael Nyman is best known for his soundtracks for Peter Greenaway films, as well as Jane Campion’s “The Piano”. For the first time on such a large scale, “Sublime” offers another view of this unique artist, revealing his video and sound installation. Open 14:00 - 18:00.

Tickets: Free

Zimmerstreich mit Schlagsahne

Suppose a room’s interior is the resonance body of an instrument. How should the instrument look in order to sound good? An installation that interactively investigate the sound of a room - with and without the participation of an audience. Open 14:00 - 18:00.

Tickets: Free

Workshop 3 - Acoustic Instruments in Live Laptop Performance

Mark Templeton explains his method of live performance, involving guitar and laptop.

Tickets: Free

Panel 2 - European and International Cities of Advanced Sound

At MUTEK in Montreal this year 16 music festivals from around the world, including Unsound – representing Krakow - had the founding meeting of ICAS. ECAS is a connected group. Members of ICAS and ECAS discuss why they believe such organizations are needed, and how they help both festivals and cities involved. They will also present their festivals.

Tickets: Free

SoundScapes 2 - IMAGINARY SOUNDTRACKS

Two critically acclaimed European musicians releasing on UK’s Fat Cat label utilize piano in different ways, yet linked by their experimentation. Both Richter and Hauschka will bring to Krakow string players, emphasising their classical connections and making these concerts even more memorable.

Tickets: 30 zl

SoundProof 1 - CIRCUS

Pauza’s cellar club plays host to two groups from the cutting-edge Paris label Circus Company. Noze is among the creators of the new school of French tech-house, fusing dance with jazz, rock and cabaret in an energetic stage show. dOP work in similar terrain, but have an approach to dance music that is all the own. DJs bshosa and Tibor Holoda will bookend the night.

Visuals: Pani K

Tickets: 20 zl

Placard Headphone Festival

Placard Headphone Festival has set up all over the world. For the first time, Placard comes to Unsound, to include fresh names from Poland’s electronic and experimental music scenes. Enter Klub Re’s darkened bunker to connect to headphone concerts, simultaneously streamed live on-line. For program and performance times visit www.leplacard.org

Tickets: Free

Michael Nyman's SUBLIME

World-renowned composer Michael Nyman is best known for his soundtracks for Peter Greenaway films, as well as Jane Campion’s “The Piano”. For the first time on such a large scale, “Sublime” offers another view of this unique artist, revealing his video and sound installation. Open 14:00 - 18:00.

Tickets: Free

Zimmerstreich mit Schlagsahne

Suppose a room’s interior is the resonance body of an instrument. How should the instrument look in order to sound good? An installation that interactively investigate the sound of a room - with and without the participation of an audience. Open 14:00 - 18:00.

Tickets: Free

Last.FM DJ Team - Set 1

Last.FM is a UK-based Internet radio and music community website with 21 million active users. Using a music recommendation system called “Audioscrobbler” Last.FM builds a profile of each user’s musical taste. A Last.FM DJ team will play a live set using tracks selected from the music profiles of Last.FM users attending Unsound.

Tickets: Free

Panel 3 - Polish Music Festivals & Programming

What are the guiding forces determining how Polish music and audio art festivals create their program? Is there a sense that they cooperate or compete? In a country where the number of summer and autumn festivals sometimes feels like it has reached saturation point, organizers discuss these issues and others.

Tickets: Free

SoundScapes 3 - IMPOSSIBILITY OF SILENCE

An evening combining legendary and rising names from ambient and experimental music, in the stunning and unexpected setting of St Katherine’s 14th century Gothic church

Tickets: 30 zl

SoundProof 2 - FACTORY

Manggha Museum will be transformed into a two-room club. Room 1 - "Exploding Plastic Inevitable" - will showcase some of the biggest names working in innovative club music, breaking down categories. Room 2 - "The Silver Room" - will be filled with experimental and ambient sounds.

Visuals: Lillevan

Tickets: 25 zl

Warhol Series 5 - Lillevan's SCREEN TESTS REVISITED

Warhol’s original Screen Tests involved hundreds of portrait films of those visiting his New York Factory. For Screen Tests Revisited Lillevan will film Unsound audiences according to similar aesthetic rules. The results will be remixed live, with Thomas Melchior and Bruno Pronsato performing. Commissioned by Krakow & New York Goethe Institutes.

Visuals: Lillevan

Tickets: Part of FACTORY

Michael Nyman's SUBLIME

World-renowned composer Michael Nyman is best known for his soundtracks for Peter Greenaway films, as well as Jane Campion’s “The Piano”. For the first time on such a large scale, “Sublime” offers another view of this unique artist, revealing his video and sound installation. Open 14:00 - 18:00.

Tickets: Free

Zimmerstreich mit Schlagsahne

Suppose a room’s interior is the resonance body of an instrument. How should the instrument look in order to sound good? An installation that interactively investigate the sound of a room - with and without the participation of an audience. Open 14:00 - 18:00.

Tickets: Free

Last.FM DJ Team - Set 2

Last.FM is a UK-based Internet radio and music community website with 21 million active users. Using a music recommendation system called “Audioscrobbler” Last.FM builds a profile of each user’s musical taste. A Last.FM DJ team will play a live set using tracks selected from the music profiles of Last.FM users attending Unsound.

Tickets: Free

DISSOLVING BORDERS & DUBSTEP INVASION

The final day of Unsound unites two different program sections into one. Dissolving Borders presents Xiu Xiu and Fuck Buttons, two bands that create music affected by experimentation, yet reach wider audiences. Dubstep Invasion follows, the biggest showcase of dubstep ever assembled in Poland.

Tickets: 40 zl