discussion program
introduction
The Unsound 2011 program of presentations and Q&A's is by far the most extensive we've ever put together, intersecting at points with the "Future Shock" theme.
We're also proud to announce a cooperaton with two of our long-term media partners this year.
Firstly, "Wire Magzine" is presenting three events, with journalist Lisa Blanning at the helm.
As well, Resident Advisor has sent editor-in-chief Todd L. Burns to run a Q & A with three artists performing at the festival, under the RA "Live Exchange" series.
Most events take place at the contemporary art museum Bunkier Sztuki, and all are free.
Read on to see what is planned.
Presentation: "The Symptom Of The East," with Felix Kubin
10.10.11 // 17:00 // Bunkier Sztuki
An exploration of sound art and experimental music in Eastern Europe drawing from the audio program "Parasol Elektroniczny: Rumours From The Eastern Underground," created by Felix Kubin for Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Kubin discusses the music, cultural politics, economy, and survival tactics important to artists in Estonia, Poland, Latvia, Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Tickets: Free
Presentation: "Without Boundaries," with Robin Fox
11.10.11 // 17:00 // Bunkier Sztuki
From neurobiology to cochlear implants, analog synthesizers to audio controlled lasers, Robin Fox’s work knows no boundaries. Far from a simple description of his practice, Fox’s lecture/artist talk serves to contextualize his work through the lens of synaesthesia, audible and visible electrical signal equivalence and the history of electronic and visual musics.
Tickets: Free
Presented by Blackest Ever Black: "Strategies for Survival," with William Bennett
12.10.11 // 17:00 // Bunkier Sztuki
William Bennett founded Whitehouse in 1980, aiming to create "the most extreme music ever recorded". He now helms a mass hypnosis project, premiering at Tate Britain in 2010, and makes music as Cut Hands. He talks about vaudou, unconscious communication and transparent concession - plus ideas related to “Future Shock!” Conversation with Kiran Sande, journalist and Blackest Ever Black label head.
Tickets: Free
Presentation: "Social Media Hacking," with Gordon Savicic
13.10.11 // 14:00 // Bunkier Sztuki
People are becoming uneasy about how much of themselves is floating around the web, completely trackable. The web2.0 suicidemachine provides an easy and chiq way to get rid of any social network and clean all traces of your social media past. Austrian Gordan Savicic from moddr_ tells of their ongoing fight with Facebook's lawyers, as well as other stories connected to the web2.0 suicidemachine.
Tickets: Free
The Wire Magazine Presents: "Unsound," with Steve Goodman
13.10.11 // 15:30 // Bunkier Sztuki
Steve Goodman (aka Kode9) will reflect on sound, music and futurity via the concept of 'unsound' as the 'not yet heard' from the conclusion of his 2010 book “Sonic Warfare.” “The Wire” Magazine’s Lisa Blanning hosts a Q&A with Steve after his presentation.
Tickets: Free
Presentation: “Face to Facebook – Hacking Monopolism Trilogy,” with Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico
13.10.11 // 17:00 // Bunkier Sztuki
Face to Facebook was a social experiment: stealing 1 million Facebook profiles, filtering them with face-recognition software and posting on a custom-made dating website (lovely-faces.com). The aim: to give virtual identities a shared place to expose themselves freely, breaking Facebook's constraints and boring social rules. The reaction: huge media coverage, as well as lawsuits and death threats.
Tickets: Free
RA Live Exchange 1: Morphosis
14.10.11 // 13:00 // Bunkier Sztuki
In collaboration with Resident Advisor, Unsound presents a Live Exchange series at this year's festival. The Exchange is a conversation with artists, labels and promoters shaping the electronic music landscape. Talking to three of the acts performing at Unsound 2011 will be RA editor-in-chief Todd L. Burns. This Exchange features experimental techno producer Morphosis,
Tickets: Free
The Wire Magazine Presents: "The Persistence of Memory"
14.10.11 // 14:15 // Bunkier Sztuki
"The Wire" Magazine’s Lisa Blanning hosts a Q&A with James Leyland Kirby, aka The Caretaker, tracing a historical jaunt through his history in V/Vm and a host of other pseudonyms to his current and most resonant work on the themes of memory and temporal displacement.
Tickets: Free
RA Live Exchange 2: Catz n Dogz
14.10.11 // 15:45 // Bunkier Sztuki
Resident Advisor continues its Live Exchange series at this year’s festival, focusing on acts performing at Unsound 2011 in conversation with Todd L. Burns. This session features Polish duo Catz n Dogz.
Tickets: Free
The Wire Magazine Presents: “How To Wreck A Nice Beach,
14.10.11 // 17:00 // Bunkier Sztuki
Dave Tompkins presents a history of electronic voices: from Nazi research labs to Stalin gulags, World's Fairs to Hiroshima, Churchill and JKF to Kubrick, artificial larynges and Auto-Tune. Vocoder technology is now a cell phone standard - we communicate via flawed digital replicas of ourselves every day. Imperfect to be real, we revel in signal corruption. Q & A with Lisa Blanning follows.
Tickets: Free
RA Live Exchange 3: John Foxx & Benge
15.10.11 // 13:00 // Bunkier Sztuki
Resident Advisor continues its Live Exchange series at this year’s festival, focusing on acts performing at Unsound 2011 in conversation with RA editor-in-chief Todd L. Burns. This session features John Foxx and Benge.
Tickets: Free
Q&A: The Past Is Present And The Future Is Upon Us, with Morton Subotnick
15.10.11 // 14:30 // Bunkier Sztuki
Morton Subotnick has been a pioneering presence in electronic music since the early 1960s, when he helped develop the Buchla synthesizer. Here he'll discuss the evolving nature of futurism as it has attended his thinking over time, from the '60s of Marshall McLuhan through the '70s of Alvin Toffler to the present. Q&A with music journalist Andy Battaglia (Wall Street Journal, SPIN, The Wire).
Tickets: Free
Selected events
11.10 // Krakow! // Krakow
Black Taxi:
09.10 // Pauza // Krakow