Future Shock: Unsound Festival returns
PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle
10.10.2011 13:56
One of Poland's most eagerly anticipated music festivals returned on Sunday, beginning a week-long programme of sonic adventures in the southern city of Krakow.
Close to a hundred guests will be taking part in this year's edition.
Originally launched in 2003 as a forum for “advanced music”, Unsound's alternative taste soon made waves among both artists and fans of electronic music.
The festival has since spread its wings, mixing up genres and hosting events abroad to complement the annual Cracovian edition. A third Unsound New York is scheduled for spring 2012.
Following on from last year's Horror theme, organisers Mat Schulz and Gosia Plysa have chosen “Future Shock” as their title for 2011, echoing Alvin Toffler's 1970 futurist novel of the same name.
Science Fiction soundtracks, and the musical precedents that inspired them, will play a prominent part in this year's festival.
As usual, concerts will be hosted in a range of distinctive venues, running the gamut from Gothic churches to art galleries, with film screenings, installations and discussions complementing the concerts.
Guests for the current edition include a mix of both international and Polish talent. Among those set to perform are John Foxx (formerly of Ultravox), “paranoid dub” experimentalists LA Vampires, “psychofolk” duo Natural Snow and Polish ambient star Jacaszek.
Unsound 2011 runs until 16 October. (nh)