DISCUSSION: DISSONANT CARTOMANCIES: A GOD THAT PLAYS DICE

Art and theory collective 0xSalon presents an unpredictable experience at Unsound, harnessing randomness to deliberately destabilise what they call “one of the most stilted conversational forms”: the panel discussion. For the past few years, 0xSalon has been developing a bespoke discourse card game, FAU0X SALON, which facilitates bizarre conversations that veer wildly between the sublime and the ridiculous. An expanded and updated version of the deck has been re-engineered to act as a chaotic stochastic moderator, shifting agency away from human facilitators and placing faith in chance and dissonance. Unsound has graciously volunteered to be the test subjects for this deranged experiment – or, as the music industry would call it, a “world premiere”. Hosted by 0xSalon’s Wassim Alsindi and Alessandro Longo, this panel's guinea pigs include researcher/artist Eryk Salvaggio, percussionist/composer Valentina Magaletti and Leyland Kirby aka The Caretaker.