INSTALLATIONS AT THE FORMER MIRACULUM FACTORY

Unsound 2011 presents 5 installations on the grounds of a former cosmetics factory, abandoned, filled with the atmosphere of “Future Shock“. Opening hours are 12:00 – 19:00 from Mon 10.10 – Sun 16.10.

New Work: Explain - Jon Rafman (CAN) and Daniel Lopatin (aka Oneohtrix Point Never) (USA)
Jon rafman and Daniel Lopatin team up to make a video and sound installation that explores the promise of a universal discourse in the digital age. Mixing irony, humor, and melancholy, we voyage through end- less mystic 3D landscapes in search of the virtual sublime.

New Work: 3 Studies For The Bionic Ear - Robin Fox (AU)
“3 Studies for the Bionic Ear” is a multi-channel video and sound visual installation that has developed through research undertaken by Australian artist robin Fox, in collaboration with the Bionic Ear Institute, to create work that can be appreciated by cochlear implant users and conventional listeners alike. This is a response to the fact that, for Bionic Ear users, listening to live music can be a difficult experience.

New Work: We Are Hunters - Video by Ewelina Aleksandrowicz and Andrzej Wojtas (AKA PUSSYKREW) (PL), Sound by Raime

“We Are Hunters” is an audio-visual installation which explores forgotten realms of a future that has already happened, mutated by an abandonment of desire and the transformation of codes of behavior and economic structures.

Concord, Voldemars Johansons (LV)

Inspired by the work of Pythagoras, “Concord” is a sculptural musical instrument consisting of numerous metal strings of various lengths. The sound of the instrument is created by a network of self-resonating strings arranged in a space. The strain of the strings and the corresponding pitch of sound create a musi- cal succession, the sum of which is a harmonious chord.

Reflectograph / Mystic Vertex, Jade Boyd (NO) (Video) and Nick Edwards (AKA EKOPLEKZ) (Sound)

A bleak retro-futurist fantasy, or oblique soundtrack for a broken Britain? This installation is made up of old TV sets in triangular formation, suggestive of a mystic triangle.

EXHIBITS AT PAUZA

Sound Postcards is in Pauza Gallery, open from Mon 10.10 – Sun 16.10 from 12:00 – 19:00. reversions is inside Pauza bar/café.

Sound Postcards

Rui Silva (PT) and Mat Schulz (PL/AU)

During the 60s and 70s in Poland, at a time when vinyl records were hard to come by, sound postcards became extremely popular. They looked like standard postcards on the back, but an analogue recording was engraved on the front in a thin layer of laminate. This exhibition not only reveals the forgotten artistic merit of these cards, each with a design or photograph, but allows the public to listen to their songs transferred into mp3 format, drawing attention to the way sound recording technology has changed over time.

New Work: Reversions

Optigram / Manuel Sepulveda (UK)

Set in future landscapes and loosely inspired by the concept of samsāra, these pieces tell four different stories of physical or ontological change, as brought about, for example, by cataclysms or transfigura- tions. Some expand on ideas originally seen on record sleeve artwork for Citinite and Hyperdub, while others were devised specifically for Unsound. Created by Manuel Sepulveda, the artist behind Optigram, known best for his sleeve art for electronic music labels.

SPECIAL PROJECTS

Mobile Performance: Black Taxi

Polish duo Black Taxi is a new project from Patryk Zakrocki and radek Duda. They have released four thematically linked short films on the web about a black taxi that drove away one night with a friend’s clarinets. “nature Study” is a series of experiments involving the live processing of sounds from nature and the use of landscape as a possible deformation of acoustic waves. Black Taxi also plans to perform classic works of electronic and electro-acoustic music, starting with four variations of John Cage. Black Taxi will perform at Unsound in various unexpected locations throughout the city from Monday 10.10 – 12.10. Check the Unsound website and Facebook page during the festival for details. The duo will also set up a special installation involving a snooker table and sound in Manggha on the night of 11.10.2011.

Residency: Our Art on Your Sleeve

Guerilla Screen Printing, By The Impossible Assembly

This is festival merchandising with a difference, a low-tech screen-printing residency run by Zeb Schulz. Images of the future from the past have been selected by the artist, and submitted by Unsound audience members on-line. Participants can then select images and print these themselves onto their own clothing within minutes, creating a multifaceted geomorphic artwork, moving and static throughout the festival and city. Guerilla Screen Printing will set up its HQ in Pauza Gallery, and will also appear at various events during the festival. Further info on line. Ink for this project has been donated by Permaset (http://www. permaset.eu).