Unsound 2024 Music Schedule Released. Tickets to Individual Events on Sale. Third Round of Artist Names Announced
LINEUP:
2K88 b2b ojoo (PL/MA) / Actress b2b Skee Mask (UK/DE) / AKA HEX (Aïsha Devi x Slikback) with special guests (CH/KE) / Aleksander Wnuk plays Karkowski's Form and Disposition (PL) / Antonina Nowacka presents Sylphine Soporifera feat. Anna Pašić, Magdalena Gajdzica & Weronika Izdebska (PL/IT/IS) / Ash Fure presents Animal (US) / Assyouti (EG) / aya (UK) / Bassvictim (PL/UK) / bela, Theresa Baumgartner & Lukas Feigelfeld present Noise and Cries (굉음과 울음) (KO/DE) / Bianca Scout (UK) / Bill Callahan (US) / Bint Mbareh (PS) / 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) / Gummi (PL) / Harry Górski-Brown (UK) / 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) / Leandra (PL) / Lord Spikeheart (KE) / Marco Fusinato presents DESASTRES (AU) / Marek Pospieszalski & Julian Sartorius (PL/CH) / Mica Levi & Sinfonietta Cracovia (UK/PL) / ML Buch (DK) / MOPCUT (US/AT/FR) / mosa.tech (PL) / Petronn Sphene (UK) / 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 feat. Amirtha Kidambi (PL/US) / Raven Chacon (US) / RHR (BR) / Regal86 (MX) / 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) / Some Guest (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) / Nídia & Valentina Magaletti present Estradas (IT/PT) / wh0wh0 (PL) / Yellow Swans (US) / Zamilska (PL) / ZULI (EG)
Unsound Kraków 2024 takes place September 29 – October 6, and the schedule for music events is now up on our website and the Unsound app ( IOS/ Android), along with tickets to individual events. Remember that tickets are very limited for some events – they will sell out, so be quick. The final announcement will come in September, focussing on our expansive daytime discourse program, film screenings, smaller club events, and a few remaining names for the bigger late-night events.
Hyperdub affiliate aya will present a premiere live show based on entirely new music, while percussionist Valentina Magaletti will team up with Afro-Portuguese electronic producer Nídia – a key artist from the Príncipe label as well as a producer for Fever Ray – around the release of their joint album Estradas. Egyptian artist ZULI will also present a live show connected to his recent Subtext album Lambda, combining trip-hop, industrial vignettes, fractal ambience and electroid pop. Polish/British duo Bassvictim will blast audiences with their signature basspunk sound, while Petronn Sphene (aka Guttersnipe's Urocerus Gigas) will sonically bludgeon with her “No Wave Rave”. Selected from the Unsound 2024 open call, Harry Górski-Brown will play a noise set on deconstructed Highland bagpipes.
This announcement also includes more details of Antonina Nowacka’s presentation of her new album Sylphine Soporifera; joining her will be harpist Anna Pašić and flautist Magdalena Gajdzica, while Iceland-based Polish artist Weronika Izdebska will create visuals. They’ll open for Bill Callahan’s solo set at Kino Kijów. Meanwhile, Amirtha Kidambi (of Elder Ones) will be part of Raphael Rogiński’s performance of Plays Coltrane and Langston Hughes, around the reissue of the album and ahead of their show at the Alice Tully Hall later this year for Unsound New York. Kraków composer and saxophonist Marek Pospieszalski will team up with Swiss percussionist Julian Sartorius, whose solo albums sit alongside collaborations with everyone from Gyða Valtýsdóttir and Shahzad Ismaily to Matthew Herbert. Also from Kraków, Aleksander Wnuk plays Polish noise legend Zbigniew Karkowski’s Form and Disposition for solo percussion with live electronics, as an opener to a club night.
DJ sets added to the club program include Mexican techno sensation Regal86, Some Guest’s drill-infused experimental club, Egyptian deconstructionist Assyouti, bass-heavy sounds by Warsaw’s Gummi and Unsound Lab alumna Leandra, following her b2b with Juba at Ephemera.
The full discourse program schedule will be released in September, with more than 20 sessions across six days – all free of charge. For now, new additions include Bill Callahan in an artist talk with Philip Sherburne, who will also lead a conversation with Jace Clayton aka DJ /rupture; Mack Hagood, the author of Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control will explore our increasing demand for noise-cancelling technologies and the underlying ideologies that drive this industry; artist and writer Steve Goodman (aka Kode9) will reexamine his seminal book Sonic Warfare to map out how the acoustic forces have been mobilised over the last decade in a b2b lecture with Marie Thompson, a scholar and author who treats tinnitus not just as a condition, but as a window into the auditory politics of today. We’re also delighted to announce sessions with two Unsound Lab Summer School mentors: 0xSalon’s Wassim Alsindi with a Fau0x Salon card game to autonomously facilitate a panel discussion, and Lyra Pramuk with both chamber and public listening sessions – more info on both in the next announcement.