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This year’s Kino Kijów showcase opens with an A/V performance from Warsaw-based artist Julek Ploski, whose cheeky, Orange Milk-released Hotel *​*​*​*​* bends baroque instrumentation around ear-pummeling trap, hard techno and hyperpop rhythms; he opens with a few moving yet absurdist pieces made in the corecore Internet aesthetic. Then, changing the mood, South Korean cellist Okkyung Lee, who’s best known for spritzing her prismatic improvisations with visceral extended techniques, will play alongside a sequence of short films, including Hans Richter’s Ghosts Before Breakfast and Rhythmus 21, and Fernand Léger’s Le Ballet Mécanique. To finish the evening off, Polish sound designer and composer Martyna Basta will debut her collaboration with US sound artist claire rousay, a project specially commissioned by Unsound that builds on the duo’s sublime It Could Be as It Was Forever from Basta’s acclaimed Slowly Forgetting, Barely Remembering. A brief in(ter)vention comes in the form of the Machine Listening Songbook, a series of A/V experiments taking place throughout Unsound, in speech decomposition, voice-cloning and deconstructed songform. 

Martyna Basta is an artist of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union.