Unsound New York 2025 Program Expands
Lineup:
Aleksandra Słyż & Sinfonietta Cracovia / Cry (Kilbourne & Relaxer) / Evicshen & Adam Gołębiewski / Hania Rani presents Chilling Bambino / Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko present Гільдеґарда / John Cale presents Steam on Glass / Lucrecia Dalt / Mariusz Szypura feat. Lee Ranaldo, John Stanier & Zoh Amba: Chopin Residue / Mica Levi (DJ set) / Piotr Kurek presents Songs and Bodies / RP Boo & Gary Gwadera present Another Brain – The Birth of Footberk / Sinfonietta Cracovia plays Mica Levi / Włodzimierz Kotoński Reworked by Jim O’Rourke & Eiko Ishibashi (installation)
Following Unsound Krakow and Osaka, it’s time to make a second announcement related to the final city connected to our WEB theme: New York. Taking place between October 27 - November 6, Unsound New York takes place in several venues across the city.
On November 6, Unsound will again present an event at Nowadays, spanning experimental to leftfield club music. Following live shows at Unsound Osaka and Krakow, the night opens with an installation / listening experience created for the Nowadays soundsystem by Jim O’Rourke and Eiko Ishibashi, reworking compositions by Włodzimierz Kotoński, the 20th century Polish composer and pioneer of electronic music. The program will also include a rare DJ set from London’s Mica Levi (whose compositions will also be performed by Sinfonietta Cracovia at Alice Tully Hall) and a blistering live set from new Brooklyn duo Cry, made up of Relaxer and Kilbourne, combining grindcore, high-BPM industrial noise and post-punk. We will add several more artists to the program later this month, but you can already purchase tickets via Resident Advisor.
Our first Unsound New York announcement included a free concert at the Atrium at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on October 30, featuring the new Unsound-commissioned collaboration between footwork pioneer RP Boo and Poland’s Gary Gwadera. Another new collaboration has now been added to the program, connecting Polish percussionist and experimental musician Adam Gołębiewski with San Francisco sound artist and instrument-maker Evicshen (aka Victoria Shen), who performs with acrylic nails embedded with turntable styluses. (Note that Adam also has an album with Japanese duo KAKUHAN coming later this month, released on the Unsound label.)
Our first announcement also included concerts of Polish artists Hania Rani and Piotr Kurek at Pioneer Works on Monday October 27 – tickets to this event are still available. The shows by John Cale and Heinali & Andriana Yaroslava Saienko at Geffen Hall are now sold out, as are the concerts at Alice Tully Hall, featuring Lucrecia Dalt, and Sinfonietta Cracovia performing compositions by Mica Levi and with Aleksandra Słyż.
Unsound is also partnering on an audiovisual installation by Mariusz Szypura at Fridman Gallery on November 2, featuring a live performance by special guests Lee Ranaldo, John Stanier and Zoh Amba. The show is part of the Chopin Residue project, which reinterprets the legacy of Fryderyk Chopin through sound and visual art, and coincides with the pre-release of the album, set to premiere on November 28. The exhibition will remain on view throughout November. More info here.
To round out the Unsound New York program, we’ll soon announce the rest of the program at Nowadays, as well as a discussion program taking place within the framework of the festival. As always, follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Telegam for the latest news.
Unsound NYC is organized and presented by Fundacja Tone - Muzyka i Nowe Formy Sztuki and the Polish Cultural Institute New York, co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and Adam Mickiewicz Institute. The main partner of Unsound Web KRK - NYC is the Polish National Foundation.