Full Unsound Kraków 2024 Daytime Discourse Program Released
Unsound starts in less than three weeks, taking place in Kraków between September 29 – 6 October – so it’s time to unveil the full discourse program, featuring more than thirty presentations, discussions, workshops, collective listening sessions, a soundwalk – and more. Everything is entirely free, though workshops require registration, available from today. You can check out the program on our website and app, along with the week-long music program – tickets on sale now. Next week, we’ll give news of a couple of more intimate Unsound parties – stay tuned.
The new additions to the discourse program include Sebastian Cichocki, curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, who will lead a discussion on curating in the age of geopolitical upheaval. In addition to her performative lecture and experimental choir workshop, Palestinian artist Bint Mbareh will join Yellow Swans’ Gabriel Mindel Saloman in a conversation that taps into the relationship between volume, violence and protests. The discussion will be moderated by Polish sound artist and theorist Justyna Stasiowska.
Mediating between the personal, digital and political, Polish journalist and writer Małgorzata Halber will present her forthcoming book Hałas (Noise) where noise serves both as a (dis)organising principle and a pervasive challenge in which we must learn to live. Unsound regular Robin Fox returns specifically for the discourse program to pay homage to one of his formative books, Jacques Attali’s Noise: The Political Economy of Music, in a lecture that is both a personal journey through Robin’s art and life and a reflection on the prophetic powers of music.
New artist talks include Play Me Your Story, a soulful series by Lyra Pramuk, in which she invites artists to listen to and talk about the music that has shaped them personally and influenced their work. Her guest at Unsound will be Pete Swanson from Yellow Swans. Chris Watson and Izabela Dłużyk will share their experiences of working together on the Białowieża project in a conversation with Polish sound artist and musicologist Iza Smelczyńska, exploring both the practical and ethical dimensions of sound recording. This event is presented with TIMES.
The opening Sunday will offer a chance to contemplate on the changing landscape of Kraków during A Remembrance of Festivals Past sound walk by Unsound founder and Artistic Director Mat Schulz, who will take participants on a listening walk through our lost and erased venues.
This year's discourse program includes sessions developing themes and ideas explored during the Unsound Lab summer school which took place earlier this summer. Over the course of four intensive days, we discussed the challenges facing the industry today. The Unsound discourse program features some of the school mentors and participants.
You can register for workshops and the sound walk here:
A Remembrance of Festivals Past with Mat Schulz
In-Choir Within with Bint Mbareh
Building Noise Boxes with Radek Sirko
Listening Session with Lyra Pramuk