Poland’s acclaimed experimental music festival Unsound will present its first ever New York edition in 2010.
Founded in 2003, Unsound’s base is in Krakow; following outpost events in further cities like Minsk, the festival is journeying west on a mission to “forge new links between music genres, between generations and even between artistic practices”.
The festival takes place over ten days, kicking off on Thursday 4 February. The strand of the festival likely to prove most popular is the Andy Warhol program, for which various artists have been invited to provide live soundtracks for Warhol films. On February 5 at the Lincoln Center, nsi. – Berlin-based experimental duo Tobias Freund and Max Loderbauer – will soundtrack Warhol’s Kiss, while none other than Carl Craig plays along to Blow Job. According to Unsound, both these soundtracks will be “analogue synthesizer-driven”. On the following night Groupshow – the band helmed by minimal techno innovator Jan Jelinek – will perform a (gulp) eight-hour long live improvisation to Warhol’s Empire (an unwaveringly static shot of the Empire State Building). [Read More]