Second Wave of Artists Released for Unsound Kraków. Unsound Club Passes and Individual Tickets for Weekend Events on Sale

Unsound Kraków 2024 takes place from September 29 – October 6 under the theme Noise, and it’s time to announce the next wave of artists in the music and discourse program. Tickets on sale from Monday include:

• UNSOUND CLUB PASSES covering late night events from October 3–5
• CLAMOUR – October 4, Łaźnia Nowa with Yellow Swans / Still House Plants / The Body & Dis Fig
• REFLECTION – October 5, Auditorium Hall at ICE Kraków with Lankum / Kali Malone presents All Life Long (for organ, choir & brass)
• CLATTER – October 5, afternoon, Theatre Hall at ICE Kraków with Piotr Kurek presents Songs & Bodies / Ka Baird with Henry Fraser, Artur Majewski & Paulina Woś / Ash Fure presents Animal. Note: this event is not included in the Weekly / Long Weekend Pass.

All other individual tickets, including Bill Callahan, and tickets to individual club nights, will go on sale in mid-August, when the full program and schedule will be released, with a slew of new names.

LINEUP SO FAR

2K88 b2b ojoo (PL/MA) / Actress b2b Skee Mask (UK/DE) / AKA HEX (Aïsha Devi x Slikback) (CH/KE) / Antonina Nowacka (PL/IT) / Ash Fure presents Animal (US) / bela, Theresa Baumgartner and Lukas Feigelfeld present Noise and Cries (​​​굉​​​음​​​과 울​​​음​​​) (KO/DE) / Bianca Scout (UK) / Bill Callahan (US) / CCL b2b Lee Gamble (DE/US/UK) / Chuquimamani-Condori (US) / Chris Watson & Izabela Dłużyk present Białowieża (UK/PL) / CRYSTALLMESS + OXHY (FR) / Daniel Szwed (PL) / Dogheadsurigeri (PL/UK) / DJ /rupture (US) / DJ Anderson Do Paraíso (BR) / Evian Christ b2b evilgiane (UK/US) / Florence Sinclair (UK) / FUJI||||||||||TA (JP) / Heavee (US) / Heinali & Yasia present Гільдеґарда (UA) / Jana Shostak (BY) / Ka Baird with Henry Fraser, Artur Majewski & Paulina Woś (US/PL) / Kali Malone presents All Life Long (for organ, choir & brass) feat. Capella Cracoviensis (US/SE/PL) / Keiji Haino (JP) / Kode9 presents History of Hyperdub (UK) / Lankum (IE) / Lasse Marhaug (NO) / Laurel Halo presents Atlas feat. Leila Bordreuil (US/FR) / Lord Spikeheart (KE) / Marco Fusinato presents DESASTRES (AU) / Marek Pospieszalski (PL) / Mica Levi & Sinfonietta Cracovia (UK/PL) / ML Buch (DK) / MOPCUT (US/AT/FR) / mosa.tech (PL) / Piotr Kurek presents Songs and Bodies (PL) / Rainy Miller presents Joseph, What Have You Done (UK) / Rafael Toral (PT) / Raphael Rogiński presents Plays John Coltrane and Langston Hughes (PL) / Raven Chacon (US) / RHR (BR) / Rick Farin & Actual Objects (US) / Safety Trance b2b Manuka Honey (ES/US) / Saint Abdullah, Eomac & Rebecca Salvadori present A Forbidden Distance (IR/IE/IT/AT) / sideproject (IS) / SSRI (PL) / Still House Plants (UK) / Surusinghe b2b TSVI (AU/IT) / Tarta Relena present És pregunta (ES) / Tayhana (AR/MX) / The Body & Dis Fig (US/DE) / upsammy & Valentina Magaletti (NL/IT) / wh0wh0 (PL) / Yellow Swans (US) / Zamilska (PL) + MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED MID-AUGUST

Cult noise duo Yellow Swans, recently reunited after a long hiatus, will perform their first European show in 16 years – also their only European show for the time being. The inclusion of Bill Callahan in the program, one of the foremost singer-songwriters of his generation – emerging from his lo-fi origins as Smog – underlines the fact that the Unsound 2024 Noise theme does not simply mean pummeling sound; he will perform a solo set.

Manchester’s Rainy Miller will present the premiere of a new work, Joseph What Have You Done, while Saint Abdullah & Eomac will join forces with visual artist Rebecca Salvadori to perform A Forbidden Distance, a co-commission from Unsound, Atonal, Semibreve and Sónar, as part of the TIMES Platform. Laurel Halo’s Kraków performance of Atlas will feature cellist Leila Bordreuil, while Raphael Rogiński will present a show around the Unsound label reissue of his landmark work Plays Coltrane & Langston Hughes featuring old and new interpretations of Coltrane. (Note also that Rogiński’s album Žaltys has also just dropped on the Unsound label.) Bianca Scout will treat audiences with her unique mix of chamber music, dark pop and ethereal ambience, while the Polish duo SSRI brings outernational compositions on their self-titled debut album. Meanwhile, Italy based Polish artist Antonina Nowacka will present the outcomes of a SHAPE+ residency.

Following up on a similar format for our 2023 edition, the program will also celebrate various interpretations of noise in the form of interventions, including the legendary Japanese artist Keiji Haino disrupting the main room in the middle of a club night; Raven Chacon, the first Native American winner of the Pulitzer Prize, who has written scores to be played on foghorns, guns or screamed out of a window; Kraków experimental saxophonist Marek Pospieszalski; and multidisciplinary artist and musician Chuquimamani-Condori blending country, Andean music and layers and layers of digital effects into a euphoric collage. Belarussian artist and activist Jana Shostak will continue her long-standing protest Screaming for Belarus at Unsound. The festival will also again showcase the strength and diversity of Poland’s drumming scene, with Polish percussionist Daniel Szwed – well known to Unsounders for his work with BNNT – and newcomer wh0wh0, following a sublime release as part of a trilogy by the Outlines label.

The late night program includes a series of back-to-back sets, including: the first ever between Evian Christ and Surf Gang founder evilgiane, who has produced for everyone from Babyxsosa to Kendrick Lamar; CCL and Lee Gamble, both practically Unsound residents will go b2b for the first time; Poland’s 2K88 – fresh off the release of his new Unsound-released album SHAME – and the Moroccan-Belgian DJ ojoo, returning after her incredible set at last year’s opening party; and Latinx artist Manuka Honey with the Venezuelan producer Safety Trance aka Cardopusher. The swiftly rising Brazilian producer RHR will play a DJ set taking Brazilian funk to new heights, mixing it with a huge assortment of genres, while footwork innovator Heavee appears in the wake of their Hyperdub release Unleash, and Oramics affiliate dogheadsurigeri follows her debut single Fluid Matter. Polish rap duo mosa.tech will present their club-ready deconstruction of trap.

Bridging the performance and discourse programs, Palestinian artist Bint Mbareh – part of Unsound’s Weavings show in New York – will present a work combining sound, music and words, giving voice to nonhuman stories and highlighting kinship in fugitive positions. She will also run an experimental choir workshop. Writer and researcher Günseli Yalcinkaya, of Dazed, will lead a discussion on screaming in music, as well as another on AI, aliens and government disinformation. The Quietus’ John Doran will present a live documentary performance on heavy metal, noise, and modernism, with A/V & sound prepared by artist and filmmaker Sapphire Goss.

Three more discourse program open-call winners are also included in the program. Sound artist, composer and lecturer Radek Sirko will run a DIY electrotechnical workshop on building noise boxes; Y7 and Aadita Chaudhury will give a presentation based on their 032c text Post-Music: Apocalypse Soundcheck examining competing West Bengali sound systems; and Nina Franklin Lupini’s performative presentation interrogates the history of broadcasting as a radical act.

Finally, we are sorry to announce that as well as 1127 and Wolf Eyes and Anthony Braxon will not be performing at Unsound this year due to reasons outside of anyone’s control. As Wolf Eyes and Anthony Braxton’s show was programmed for CLATTER on Saturday afternoon, it does not affect pass holders.