Unsound 2023 Releases Further Artist Names and Launches Music Program Schedule. Individual Tickets on Sale
LINEUP SO FAR (new artists in bold):
¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U (JP) / 2K88 (PL) / 33EMYBW & Joey Holder (CN/UK) / 3Phaz (EG) / 7038634357 (US) / Ale Hop & Laura Robles present Agua Dulce (PE/SZ) / androgienia (PL) / Aunty Rayzor (UG) / Autechre (UK) / Ben Frost feat. Greg Kubacki & Tarik Barri (AU/IS/US/NL) - premiere / Bill Orcutt (US) / Blawan (UK) / claire rousay (US) - DJ / claire rousay & Martyna Basta (US/PL) - premiere / DADABOTS (US) / Dawuna (US) / DJ Babatr (VZ) / DJ K (BR) / DJ Tobzy (NG) / Dreamcrusher vs. Kill Alters (US) / Dynasonic (PL) / estoc b2b Oldyungmayn (US/EG/PS) / EYE (JP) / Heinali presents Kyiv Eternal (UA) / Hermeneia (PL) / HiTech (US) / Hulubalang presents Bunyi-Bunyi Tumbal (ID/SG) - premiere / Iceboy Violet (UK) / IFS MA (JP/PL) / JASSS b2b Emma dj (ES/FI) / Jennifer Walshe (IR) / Jśa (PL/DE) / Julek Płoski presents Hotel ***** (PL) / Julia Reidy (AU/DE) / KAKUHAN feat. Adam Gołębiewski (JP/PL) - premiere / Krzysztof (PL) / Lanark Artefax (UK) - premiere / Lee Gamble presents Models with Candela Capitán & Jacqueline Sobiszewski (UK/ES/PL) - premiere / Lonnie Holley (US) / LustSickPuppy (US) / Mabe Fratti (GT) / Marginal Consort (JP) / Meuko! Meuko! & NONEYE pres. 無形將軍 Invisible General : e2 - premiere (TW) / Mun Sing (UK) / Natural Wonder Beauty Concept (DJ Python & Ana Roxanne) (US) / Negativland & SUE-C (US) / Nick León (US) - European live premiere / Nikki Nair (US) / Ojoo (MA) /
Okkyung Lee A/V (KR) / Olivia (PL) / OPLA (PL) / PLF (Elvin Brandhi, Lukas Koenig, Peter Kutin) (AT/UK) / Rama (EG/DE) / Raphael Rogiński presents Žaltys feat. Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė (PL/LT) - premiere / Robert Piotrowicz plays Afterlife (PL) / Rosa Pistola (CO/MX) /Semprey b2b Kitty Sarcasm (PL) / Shapednoise & Sevi Iko D��mochevsky present Absurd Matter (IT/ES/DE) / Sherelle b2b VTSS (UK/PL) / SKI (PL) - premiere / Teoniki Rożynek & Aleksandra Słyż pres. And The Sun Stood Still (PL) / Tirzah (UK) / Toccororo (ES) / Toumba (JO) - live premiere / Voice Actor (UK) / Ziúr pres. EYEROLL feat. Iceboy Violet, Elvin Brandhi and Sander Houtkruijer (DE/UK/NL)
Unsound has added further names to the 2023 program (taking place in Kraków between 1- 8 October), launched the performance schedule on the festival website and our app, and put individual tickets on sale. Final names – including in(ter)ventions prepared as part of this year’s Dada theme, a closing party, and the full discourse program schedule will arrive mid-September. Note that although individual tickets are on sale, as well as a limited number of three-night club passes, full festival passes and long weekend passes are sold out, and tickets to the Friday night event with Autechre are also sold out.
Returning to Unsound after a long absence, Ben Frost will premiere his first new music since 2017, a live collaboration with progressive metal guitarist Greg Kubacki of US band Carbomb, with synaesthetic video and light design from Tarik Barri. Lanark Artefax will also present the premiere of new music in the form of an A/V show. South Korean cellist Okkyung Lee plays for the first time in Poland, creating live scores for Dada films from the 1920s. Gabber Modus Operandi’s Kasimyn will debut his startling new Hulubalang project Bunyi-Bunyi Tumbal, addressing the trauma of Dutch colonisation with fractured, ritualistic dances, featuring visuals by Singapore artist Brandon Tay.
Polish experimental music producer Przemysław Jankowiak – best known as 1988 – returns to Unsound with a new project and premiere A/V liveshow as 2K88, with music based on ’90s and ’00s Polish rap nostalgia, but seeped in references to UK club music. Julek Płoski performs a new A/V show presenting his Orange Milk-release Hotel *****, as well as pieces made for Unsound drawing inspiration from the corecore Internet aesthetic. Damian Kowalski premieres his solo project SKI, reinterpreting footwork and global club rhythms using an amplified drum kit.
Bill Orcutt might be an elder statesman of American guitar according to Pitchfork, but he also embodies the spirit of Unsound Dada in his eccentric, unpredictable approach to the instrument. Likewise, EYE – founder of the legendary Japanese band Boredoms – tears up the DJ rulebook, his sets propelled by a freeform, noisy, percussive thrust. Mun Sing, one half of Giant Swan embraces absurdity and playfulness in his music, while grappling with the death of his father. Dadabots will perform a tongue-in-cheek, cacophonic set of extreme AI music.
Moving further into the late-night club program, Nyege Nyege presents Nigerian rapper and cross-genre innovator Aunty Rayzor alongside fellow Nigerian DJ Tobzy, at the forefront of cruise beat, a cut-n-paste of Afrobeats, amapiano, Brazilian funk and rave. Meanwhile, Toccororo is a Cuban-Spanish DJ colliding the darker side of Latinx club music with techno and hardstyle, Jersey club and ballroom. We already announced a b2b between VTSS and Sherelle. Now prepare yourself for Spain’s JASSS b2b with Paris–based Finn Emma dj and Philadelphia’s edit queen estoc b2b with versatile Egyptian-Palestinian DJ Oldyungmayn. Further additions from the Polish club scene include Berlin-based artist Jśa, KEM’s androgienia and Krzysztof, one of the curators of Warsaw sunrise series W Brzask with whom Unsound partners through Ephemera Festival. And Unsound wouldn’t be the same without our residents Olivia and Hermeneia. We’ll also once again present ambient brunch sets at Puro, this time with selections from claire rousay and Antonina Nowacka.
Additions to the daytime discourse program include Lyra Pramuk, who joins Ignota’s Susanna Davies-Crook and Sarah Shin to participate in a panel discussion and series of meditative journeys titled A Body in the Form of a Planet, celebrating the work of Lynn Margulis. Poland’s Przemysław Witkowski will delve into the origins of contemporary fascism in light of his new book Faszyzm, który nadchodzi (Fascism Yet To Come). Resident Advisor is returning to Unsound with an array of events, including workshops on broadcast journalism in a podcast studio and a panel discussion on the economic dynamics within dance music culture. Additionally, they will collaborate with journalism workshops run by Ukrainian Mariana Berezovska, of Borshch Magazine, for which registration is now open through the workshop subpage on our website.
The full daytime discourse program schedule will be launched in the middle of September, along with the final names for the music program. In the meantime, follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Telegram, Discord and check our very easy to use app with all the necessary info, presented with TMSQR.
Unsound is made possible thanks to the financing from the City of Kraków as well as many partners. 2023 Unsound’s performances of Heinali, Ojoo, Candela Capitán, Oldyungmayn and Martyna Basta are supported by SHAPE+, a platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union.
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