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Unsound New York returns November 14-17, 2024<\/strong>
<\/strong>Acts appearing include: 2k88<\/strong> \/ 7038634357<\/strong> \/ Atrice<\/strong> \/ bela <\/strong>\/ Chuquimamani-Condori<\/strong> \/ Chris Watson &<\/strong> Izabela D\u0142u\u017cyk<\/strong> present Bia\u0142owie\u017ca<\/em> \/ Kali Malone<\/strong> presents All Life Long<\/em> (organs, choir and brass) \/ Mabe Fratti<\/strong> \/ Piotr Kurek<\/strong> presents Smartwoods<\/em> \/ Raphael Roginski <\/strong>presents Plays John Coltrane & Langston Hughes<\/em> feat. Jim White & Amirtha Kidambi<\/strong> \/ Shyboi b2b Bobby Beethoven<\/strong> \/ Sunn O)))<\/strong> \/ VTSS b2b Tygapaw<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thursday, November 14 at 9:00 PM \u2014 04:00 AM<\/strong>
Club Night <\/strong>co-presented with Dripping<\/strong> at Nowadays<\/strong><\/a>
56-06 Cooper Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11385
Lineup:<\/strong>
7038634357 (Live)
Bela (Live)
2k88 (Live)
Atrice (Live)
VTSS b2b TYGAPAW (DJ)
HYBOI b2b Bobby Beethoven (DJ)
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Friday, November 15 at 7:30 PM
Join us for a pre-show installation at 7:00 PM
Piotr Kurek<\/a> presents Smallwoods \/ Chuquimamani-Condori<\/strong>
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center<\/a><\/strong>
1887 Broadway, New York, NY 10023
Free General Admission<\/a><\/strong>, first-come first-served. Just show up!
Fast Track<\/strong><\/a>, opening the Tuesday before the event at noon.
Watch recorded video stream<\/a><\/strong>.

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Saturday, November 16 at 12:00 PM \u2014 6:00 PM
Sunday, November 17 at 12:00 PM \u2014 4:00 PM
Saturday, November 23 at 12:00 PM \u2014 6:00 PM
Sunday, November 24 at 12:00 PM \u2014 6:00 PM
Saturday, November 30 at 12:00 PM \u2014 6:00 PM
Sunday, December 01 at 12:00 PM \u2014 6:00 PM
Izabela D\u0142u\u017cyk<\/a> & Chris Watson<\/a>: Bia\u0142owie\u017ca<\/strong>
Pioneer Works<\/strong><\/a>
159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
Free admission<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Saturday, November 16 at 7:30 PM
<\/strong>Kali Malone’s All Life Long with Stephen O\u2019Malley & Anima Brass Quintet & Choir \/ Raphael Rogi\u0144ski with Jim White & Amirtha Kidambi<\/strong><\/a>
Alice Tully Hall<\/a><\/strong>
1941 Broadway W 65th St, New York, NY 10023
Choose What You Pay<\/a><\/strong>
Member Pre-sale: September 5 at noon \/ General On-sale: September 10 at noon<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sunday, November 17 at 7:30 PM
<\/strong>SUNN O))) \/ Mabe Fratti<\/strong><\/a>
Wu Tsai Theater, David Geffen Hall<\/a><\/strong>
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023
Choose What You Pay<\/a><\/strong>
Member Pre-sale: September 5 at noon \/ General On-sale: September 10 at noon<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monday, November 18 at 7:00 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM
Kali Malone<\/a><\/strong> and<\/strong> Stephen O’Malley <\/a><\/strong>
Talk about time, space, and music <\/strong><\/em>
Giorno Poetry Systems<\/a><\/strong>
222 Bowery New York, NY 10012
Free admission<\/a><\/strong>
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Unsound New York 2024<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Taking place from November 14 to 17, the New York edition of Unsound includes three nights at Lincoln Center, partnerships with Pioneer Works and Dripping, and a program spanning experimental, electronic, avant-pop and club music. To make Unsound New York accessible, events are mostly Free or Choose What You Pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shows at Lincoln Center include SUNN O)))<\/strong> who will perform at David Geffen Hall<\/strong> on November 17, <\/strong>returning to the live aspect in its core, original raw form. The opening act will be Guatemalan cellist and vocalist Mabe Fratti<\/strong>, who blends elements of folk, jazz, and avant rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On November 16<\/strong>, Stockholm-based American composer and organist Kali Malone<\/strong> will perform at Alice Tully Hall<\/strong>, presenting organ, choir, and brass compositions from her album All Life Long<\/em><\/strong>, featuring Stephen O\u2019Malley<\/strong>. Opening is Polish guitarist Raphael Rogi\u0144ski<\/strong>, presenting a live interpretation of his album, Plays Coltrane & Langston Hughes<\/em><\/strong>, joining him is drummer Jim White<\/strong> and vocalist Amirtha Kidambi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On November 15<\/strong>, a night at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center<\/strong> features two free shows presenting Chuquimamani-Condori <\/strong>as well as Piotr Kurek<\/strong> presenting music from his Unsound-released album Smartwoods<\/em><\/strong> with a New York ensemble featuring harp, trumpet, clarinet, and bass. An opening prelude to the live concerts comes in the form of \u00cakhos, by Mariusz Szypura. \u00cakhos translates as \u201cnoise\u201d in ancient Greek, and this 25-minute audio-video 3D installation and synesthetic experience strives to put the audience in a state where, as Szypura says, \u201cwe start to see the music and hear the visuals\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On November 15 and 16<\/strong>, Unsound will collaborate with Pioneer Works<\/strong> to present Bia\u0142owie\u017ca,<\/em><\/strong> an installation by renowned field recordists Chris Watson<\/strong> and Izabela D\u0142u\u017cyk<\/strong>. In New York, Bia\u0142owie\u017ca <\/em>will be presented in the form of an installation. This project was commissioned by Unsound, Atonal, Semibreve, and S\u00f3nar as part of the TIMES Platform<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The festival will open November 14<\/strong>, with a night co-presented with Dripping <\/strong>at Nowadays<\/strong> veering from live experimental shows to club music, continuing into the early morning hours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On November 18<\/strong>, Kali Malone and Stephen O’Malley will talk about time, space, and music, in a conversation moderated by Andy Battaglia. Part of Unsound New York 2024, this event is co-produced with Giorno Poetry Systems, an organization founded by John Giorno in 1965, and takes place in a building on the Bowery that served as his former home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unsound New York <\/strong>first took place in 2010 with major acclaim from press and fans alike. The festivals broad remit to combine live events with club events, the known with the unknown, and to include a good number of under-exposed (at that time) Polish and Eastern European acts was a winner. The Sunday New York Times declared \u2018Hello, New York: Avant Garde Eastern Europe\u2019 with a full-page feature that included festival co-founder Mat Schulz noting \u201cThe fact that (Unsound is) coming from Krakow in a sense makes it more interesting. It\u2019s not what you would expect, and it makes a comment about the way that culture now doesn\u2019t necessarily come from these precise points you\u2019d think it would come from. That\u2019s what this festival is about as well: disrupting preconceived notions of a lot of different types, not only about what a country or a city is, or what cultural centers are, but also what music is and how different kinds of music can be connected. That\u2019s really at the heart of the whole enterprise.\u201d This fortunately remains true for this year\u2019s edition of Unsound New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Piotr Kurek, photo by Ada Zieli\u0144ska<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Piotr Kurek<\/strong> is a Warsaw-based musician, multi-instrumentalist and composer. He\u2019s released music on Edi\u00e7\u00f5es CN, Mondoj, Hands In The Dark, Black Sweat Records and created soundtracks for theatrical works. The Wire noted that he takes inspiration from \u201cfolk legends, tales of international adventure and the small serendipities of the studio.\u201d Kurek also noted to them that his compositional process is \u201cvery linear. I want to have small coincidences and revelations, without any bombastic moments\u2026I don\u2019t subscribe to the idea of genre. Whatever I do has to have that element of adventure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year his album Smartwoods<\/em><\/strong> (perhaps his most adventurous album to date) was released on Unsound\u2019s imprint and has been described as \u201ca sprawling root system of tiny melodic phrases that loop and curl around subtly evolving instrumental thickets.\u201d Additionally, Philip Sherburne noted in Pitchfork that Smartwoods<\/em> \u201cbroad, slightly ragtag swatches of color are reminiscent of (painters) Richard Diebenkorn (and) Helen Frankenthaler\u201d and that \u201cKurek\u2019s arrangements frequently sound like he has taken a passage from Talk Talk\u2019s (cult album) Laughing Stock.<\/em> Piotr Kurek will make his New York debut performing material from Smartwoods<\/em> (and more) live at Unsound New York 2024 with New York players on harp, trumpet, clarinet, and bass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Izabela D\u0142u\u017cyk <\/strong>is a Polish nature sound recordist. Born blind, D\u0142u\u017cyk developed interest in birds and began to record bird noises at the age of 12. Her specific sensitivity to birdsong has since grown into a wide-ranging artistic practice. Last year BBC World broadcast a documentary about D\u0142u\u017cyk during which she noted \u201chumans focus more on visual aspects. When observing birds, we mainly think about photography. We identify species based on their appearance rather than their sounds. When I listen not only to birds, but also to trees, I simply feel in the right place, with a sense of the deepest meaning of existence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Unsound New York 2024 she will present a new installation work Bia\u0142owie\u017ca<\/em><\/strong> in collaboration with noted British sound artist and field recordist Chris Watson<\/strong>. This newly commissioned installation premiered at Unsound\u2019s sister festival Ephemera in Warsaw earlier this year. It is based on field recordings made in Puszcza Bia\u0142owieska \u2013 Europe\u2019s last remaining primaeval forest, on the border between Poland and Belarus. In recent times, the forest has become a contentious place, initially due to logging and since late 2021, scores of migrants from Africa, the Middle East and South Asia have attempted to go through the forest and cross from Belarus into Poland and the European Union. Additionally, a metal wall has been constructed, dividing the forest, which has become a symbol of wider geopolitical tensions. The location provides the grounding for Bia\u0142owie\u017ca<\/em>. The natural and unnatural sounds of the forest have therefore taken on layers of meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Chris Watson<\/strong> is one of the UK\u2019s most celebrated sound recordists. Not only was he a founding member of Sheffield\u2019s influential Cabaret Voltaire and The Hafler Trio, but he\u2019s been developing his ear for field recording since the early \u201980s, working extensively for the BBC on numerous nature shows. As a solo artist, he\u2019s helped figure out a space between documentary and fantasy, collaborating with artists like BJ Nilsen, Z\u2019EV, KK Null and Philip Jeck. One of his longest collaborations has been with David Attenborough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In New York, Bia\u0142owie\u017ca<\/strong> will be presented in the form of an installation. The project was commissioned by Unsound, Atonal, Semibreve and S\u00f3nar as part of the TIMES Platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kali Malone<\/strong>, a Stockholm-based American composer and organist returns to New York City to present the organ, choir, and brass pieces from her highly acclaimed 2023 album All Life Long<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 a contemplative 78-minute suite for organ, brass quintet and chamber choir. Pitchfork gave the album an 8.3 rating and Best New Music tag noting the album is \u201ca fount of beauty, reflection, and perhaps even revelation.\u201d Interviewed in the New York Times about her work she noted \u201cYou can have knowledge about sound, you can have knowledge about structure, color, pitch, harmony, rhythm. But none of that means anything if you don\u2019t have knowledge of how to use it emotionally.\u201d  In her hands, experimental minimalist reinterpretations of centuries-old polyphonic compositional methods become portals to new ways of perceiving harmony, structure, and introspection. She will perform on Alice Tully Hall\u2019s iconic pipe organ with additional 4-handed organ accompaniment by Stephen O\u2019Malley, together with the Anima brass quintet and a local choir (members to be announced soon).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Raphael Rogi\u0144ski with Jim White & Amirtha Kidambi<\/strong>. Rogi\u0144ski returns to Unsound New York after presenting an intimate show last year at the David Rubenstein Atrium. This time around Rogi\u0144ski will focus on material featured on Unsound imprint\u2019s upcoming timely reissue of Rogi\u0144ski\u2019s out of print landmark 2016 album Plays Coltrane & Langston Hughes<\/em><\/strong> (for cult Polish label Bolt). Rogi\u0144ski has also just released a new album \u017daltys<\/em> for Unsound\u2019s imprint. Picking the album as their folk album of the month, The Guardian noted \u201cThis searching, soulful release conjures up the spirit of summers spent by the lake and in the forest,\u201d going on to compare Rogi\u0144ski to Factory records\u2019 The Durutti Column, the early solo works of Ben Watt and the softer moments of Pat Metheny\u2019s jazz. Joining in on the praise, The Quietus picked \u017daltys<\/em> as their album of the week noting \u2018this is a landmark album that inhabits both ancient and unkempt, overgrown and unruly,\u201d describing Roginski\u2019s playing as \u201clithe, his touch light but powerful. The uncluttered compositions are elegant but not without a certain wildness \u2013 an old, untouchedness \u2013 slithering from brambled undergrowth to sun-dappled clearing, and often playing out like light dancing on inky green scales.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Unsound New York 2024, Roginski will present his distinct interpretations of Coltrane\u2019s compositions, played in a way that brings out unexpected textural and rhythmic qualities, often veering far from jazz. He will also perform songs that he\u2019s composed around the poetry of American poet and social activist Langston Hughes, including a few new compositions written for the Unsound reissue. Mostly performing solo, Rogi\u0144ski will also be joined by drummer Jim White and vocalist Amirtha Kidambi. Kidambi is invested in the creation and performance of subversive, anti-hegemonic music, from free improvisation and avant-jazz, to Indian carnatic and devotional, experimental bands, electronic music, noise and new music. This year she\u2019s been making waves worldwide with her band Amirtha Kidambi\u2019s Elder Ones following their album release New Monuments<\/em> for We Jazz. Jim White is a drummer of note, having played with a who\u2019s who of pop music including Cat Power, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, and many others, leading to the New York Times labelling him \u201cyour Favorite Songwriter\u2019s Favorite Drummer\u201d earlier this year. He released his album All Hits: Memories<\/em> this past March. He also plays in the bands the Dirty Three and Beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Images: 1. Amirtha Kidambi, photo courtesy of the artist 2. Raphael Rogi\u0144ski, photo by Lenka Sieczkowska 3. Jim White by SarahK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SUNN O)))<\/strong> returns to the live aspect in its core, original raw form for their only<\/em> North American date of 2024. Founders and guitarists Stephen O\u2019Malley and Greg Anderson will perform at David Geffen Hall as a duo immersed in profound valve amplification, spectral harmonics, distortion, and volume transcending boundaries with their unique sonic language. Their excursions into pure and primeval riffs of temporality and massively heavy structures of sound pressure have been challenging how we think about music for over twenty years. Witness a live experience of physical sound, fog, and glacial maximalism like no other. SUNN 0))) have also collaborated with artists such as Scott Walker, Boris, Pan Sonic, Ulver, and Merzbow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mabe Fratti<\/strong> this Guatemalan cellist is a rising star with a wide range of listeners. Her music blurs the borders between folk, jazz, and avant rock, in service of rich, multi-layered works that center around her striking voice. She performs in the wake of her most recent album which brings her sound even closer to pop, though always driven by an experimental urge. Talking to The Fader in July about the album Sentir que no sabes<\/em> she noted \u201cI never got to speak in tongues, but the cello would.\u201d The Guardian gave her album 5 Stars calling it \u201crich, rewarding, spellbinding music from a true original.\u201d Rolling Stone who\u2019ve placed her albums on year-end lists for the past two years noted \u201cFratti\u2019s emotional delivery is more resonant than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unsound New York is part of Lincoln Center Presents and is co-organized by Fundacja Tone and co-presented by the Polish Cultural Institute New York. This project is co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland from the Culture Promotion Fund in partnership with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curated by Mat Schulz, Unsound Artistic Director<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just show up!Fast Track, opening the Tuesday before the event at noon.Watch recorded video stream.\\nSaturday, November 16 at 12:00 PM \u2014 6:00 PMSunday, November 17 at 12:00 PM \u2014 4:00 PMSaturday, November 23 at 12:00 PM \u2014 6:00 PMSunday, November 24 at 12:00 PM \u2014 6:00 PM Saturday, November 30 at 12:00 PM \u2014 6:00 PM Sunday, December 01 at 12:00 PM \u2014 6:00 PMIzabela D\u0142u\u017cyk & Chris Watson: Bia\u0142owie\u017caPioneer Works159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231Free admission \\nSaturday, November 16 at 7:30 PMKali Malone's All Life Long with Stephen O\u2019Malley & Anima Brass Quintet & Choir \/ Raphael Rogi\u0144ski with Jim White & Amirtha KidambiAlice Tully Hall1941 Broadway W 65th St, New York, NY 10023Choose What You PayMember Pre-sale: September 5 at noon \/ General On-sale: September 10 at noon\\nSunday, November 17 at 7:30 PMSUNN O))) \/ Mabe FrattiWu Tsai Theater, David Geffen Hall10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023Choose What You PayMember Pre-sale: September 5 at noon \/ General On-sale: September 10 at noon\\nMonday, November 18 at 7:00 PM, doors open at 6:30 PMKali Malone and Stephen O'Malley Talk about time, space, and music Giorno Poetry Systems222 Bowery New York, NY 10012Free admission \\nUnsound New York 2024\\nTaking place from November 14 to 17, the New York edition of Unsound includes three nights at Lincoln Center, partnerships with Pioneer Works and Dripping, and a program spanning experimental, electronic, avant-pop and club music. To make Unsound New York accessible, events are mostly Free or Choose What You Pay.\\nShows at Lincoln Center include SUNN O))) who will perform at David Geffen Hall on November 17, returning to the live aspect in its core, original raw form. The opening act will be Guatemalan cellist and vocalist Mabe Fratti, who blends elements of folk, jazz, and avant rock.\\nOn November 16, Stockholm-based American composer and organist Kali Malone will perform at Alice Tully Hall, presenting organ, choir, and brass compositions from her album All Life Long, featuring Stephen O\u2019Malley. Opening is Polish guitarist Raphael Rogi\u0144ski, presenting a live interpretation of his album, Plays Coltrane & Langston Hughes, joining him is drummer Jim White and vocalist Amirtha Kidambi.\\nOn November 15, a night at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center features two free shows presenting Chuquimamani-Condori as well as Piotr Kurek presenting music from his Unsound-released album Smartwoods with a New York ensemble featuring harp, trumpet, clarinet, and bass. An opening prelude to the live concerts comes in the form of \u00cakhos, by Mariusz Szypura. \u00cakhos translates as \u201cnoise\u201d in ancient Greek, and this 25-minute audio-video 3D installation and synesthetic experience strives to put the audience in a state where, as Szypura says, \u201cwe start to see the music and hear the visuals\u201d.\\nOn November 15 and 16, Unsound will collaborate with Pioneer Works to present Bia\u0142owie\u017ca, an installation by renowned field recordists Chris Watson and Izabela D\u0142u\u017cyk. In New York, Bia\u0142owie\u017ca will be presented in the form of an installation. This project was commissioned by Unsound, Atonal, Semibreve, and S\u00f3nar as part of the TIMES Platform\\nThe festival will open November 14, with a night co-presented with Dripping at Nowadays veering from live experimental shows to club music, continuing into the early morning hours. \\nOn November 18, Kali Malone and Stephen O'Malley will talk about time, space, and music, in a conversation moderated by Andy Battaglia. Part of Unsound New York 2024, this event is co-produced with Giorno Poetry Systems, an organization founded by John Giorno in 1965, and takes place in a building on the Bowery that served as his former home.\\nThe history of the festival\\nUnsound New York first took place in 2010 with major acclaim from press and fans alike. The festivals broad remit to combine live events with club events, the known with the unknown, and to include a good number of under-exposed (at that time) Polish and Eastern European acts was a winner. The Sunday New York Times declared \u2018Hello, New York: Avant Garde Eastern Europe\u2019 with a full-page feature that included festival co-founder Mat Schulz noting \u201cThe fact that (Unsound is) coming from Krakow in a sense makes it more interesting. It\u2019s not what you would expect, and it makes a comment about the way that culture now doesn\u2019t necessarily come from these precise points you\u2019d think it would come from. That\u2019s what this festival is about as well: disrupting preconceived notions of a lot of different types, not only about what a country or a city is, or what cultural centers are, but also what music is and how different kinds of music can be connected. That\u2019s really at the heart of the whole enterprise.\u201d This fortunately remains true for this year\u2019s edition of Unsound New York.\\nPiotr Kurek is a Warsaw-based musician, multi-instrumentalist and composer. 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Whatever I do has to have that element of adventure.\u201d\\nLast year his album Smartwoods (perhaps his most adventurous album to date) was released on Unsound\u2019s imprint and has been described as \u201ca sprawling root system of tiny melodic phrases that loop and curl around subtly evolving instrumental thickets.\u201d Additionally, Philip Sherburne noted in Pitchfork that Smartwoods \u201cbroad, slightly ragtag swatches of color are reminiscent of (painters) Richard Diebenkorn (and) Helen Frankenthaler\u201d and that \u201cKurek\u2019s arrangements frequently sound like he has taken a passage from Talk Talk\u2019s (cult album) Laughing Stock. Piotr Kurek will make his New York debut performing material from Smartwoods (and more) live at Unsound New York 2024 with New York players on harp, trumpet, clarinet, and bass.\\nIzabela D\u0142u\u017cyk is a Polish nature sound recordist. Born blind, D\u0142u\u017cyk developed interest in birds and began to record bird noises at the age of 12. Her specific sensitivity to birdsong has since grown into a wide-ranging artistic practice. Last year BBC World broadcast a documentary about D\u0142u\u017cyk during which she noted \u201chumans focus more on visual aspects. When observing birds, we mainly think about photography. We identify species based on their appearance rather than their sounds. When I listen not only to birds, but also to trees, I simply feel in the right place, with a sense of the deepest meaning of existence.\u201d\\nAt Unsound New York 2024 she will present a new installation work Bia\u0142owie\u017ca in collaboration with noted British sound artist and field recordist Chris Watson. This newly commissioned installation premiered at Unsound\u2019s sister festival Ephemera in Warsaw earlier this year. It is based on field recordings made in Puszcza Bia\u0142owieska \u2013 Europe\u2019s last remaining primaeval forest, on the border between Poland and Belarus. In recent times, the forest has become a contentious place, initially due to logging and since late 2021, scores of migrants from Africa, the Middle East and South Asia have attempted to go through the forest and cross from Belarus into Poland and the European Union. Additionally, a metal wall has been constructed, dividing the forest, which has become a symbol of wider geopolitical tensions. The location provides the grounding for Bia\u0142owie\u017ca. The natural and unnatural sounds of the forest have therefore taken on layers of meaning.\\nChris Watson is one of the UK\u2019s most celebrated sound recordists. 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Pitchfork gave the album an 8.3 rating and Best New Music tag noting the album is \u201ca fount of beauty, reflection, and perhaps even revelation.\u201d Interviewed in the New York Times about her work she noted \u201cYou can have knowledge about sound, you can have knowledge about structure, color, pitch, harmony, rhythm. But none of that means anything if you don\u2019t have knowledge of how to use it emotionally.\u201d In her hands, experimental minimalist reinterpretations of centuries-old polyphonic compositional methods become portals to new ways of perceiving harmony, structure, and introspection. She will perform on Alice Tully Hall\u2019s iconic pipe organ with additional 4-handed organ accompaniment by Stephen O\u2019Malley, together with the Anima brass quintet and a local choir (members to be announced soon).\\nRaphael Rogi\u0144ski with Jim White & Amirtha Kidambi. Rogi\u0144ski returns to Unsound New York after presenting an intimate show last year at the David Rubenstein Atrium. This time around Rogi\u0144ski will focus on material featured on Unsound imprint\u2019s upcoming timely reissue of Rogi\u0144ski\u2019s out of print landmark 2016 album Plays Coltrane & Langston Hughes (for cult Polish label Bolt). Rogi\u0144ski has also just released a new album \u017daltys for Unsound\u2019s imprint. Picking the album as their folk album of the month, The Guardian noted \u201cThis searching, soulful release conjures up the spirit of summers spent by the lake and in the forest,\u201d going on to compare Rogi\u0144ski to Factory records\u2019 The Durutti Column, the early solo works of Ben Watt and the softer moments of Pat Metheny\u2019s jazz. Joining in on the praise, The Quietus picked \u017daltys as their album of the week noting \u2018this is a landmark album that inhabits both ancient and unkempt, overgrown and unruly,\u201d describing Roginski\u2019s playing as \u201clithe, his touch light but powerful. The uncluttered compositions are elegant but not without a certain wildness \u2013 an old, untouchedness \u2013 slithering from brambled undergrowth to sun-dappled clearing, and often playing out like light dancing on inky green scales.\u201d\\nAt Unsound New York 2024, Roginski will present his distinct interpretations of Coltrane\u2019s compositions, played in a way that brings out unexpected textural and rhythmic qualities, often veering far from jazz. He will also perform songs that he\u2019s composed around the poetry of American poet and social activist Langston Hughes, including a few new compositions written for the Unsound reissue. Mostly performing solo, Rogi\u0144ski will also be joined by drummer Jim White and vocalist Amirtha Kidambi. Kidambi is invested in the creation and performance of subversive, anti-hegemonic music, from free improvisation and avant-jazz, to Indian carnatic and devotional, experimental bands, electronic music, noise and new music. This year she\u2019s been making waves worldwide with her band Amirtha Kidambi\u2019s Elder Ones following their album release New Monuments for We Jazz. Jim White is a drummer of note, having played with a who\u2019s who of pop music including Cat Power, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, and many others, leading to the New York Times labelling him \u201cyour Favorite Songwriter\u2019s Favorite Drummer\u201d earlier this year. He released his album All Hits: Memories this past March. He also plays in the bands the Dirty Three and Beings.\\nImages: 1. Amirtha Kidambi, photo courtesy of the artist 2. Raphael Rogi\u0144ski, photo by Lenka Sieczkowska 3. 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Jim White & Amirtha Kidambi \/ Shyboi b2b Bobby Beethoven \/ Sunn O))) \/ VTSS b2b Tygapaw\nThursday, November 14 at 9:00 PM \u2014 04:00 AMClub Night co-presented with Dripping at Nowadays56-06 Cooper AveBrooklyn, NY 11385Lineup:7038634357 (Live)Bela (Live)2k88 (Live)Atrice (Live)VTSS b2b TYGAPAW (DJ)HYBOI b2b Bobby Beethoven (DJ) Tickets\nFriday, November 15 at 7:30 PMJoin us for a pre-show installation at 7:00 PMPiotr Kurek presents Smallwoods \/ Chuquimamani-CondoriDavid Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center1887 Broadway, New York, NY 10023Free General Admission, first-come first-served. Just show up!Fast Track, opening the Tuesday before the event at noon.Watch recorded video stream.\nSaturday, November 16 at 12:00 PM \u2014 6:00 PMSunday, November 17 at 12:00 PM \u2014 4:00 PMSaturday, November 23 at 12:00 PM \u2014 6:00 PMSunday, November 24 at 12:00 PM \u2014 6:00 PM Saturday, November 30 at 12:00 PM \u2014 6:00 PM Sunday, December 01 at 12:00 PM \u2014 6:00 PMIzabela D\u0142u\u017cyk & Chris Watson: Bia\u0142owie\u017caPioneer Works159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231Free admission \nSaturday, November 16 at 7:30 PMKali Malone's All Life Long with Stephen O\u2019Malley & Anima Brass Quintet & Choir \/ Raphael Rogi\u0144ski with Jim White & Amirtha KidambiAlice Tully Hall1941 Broadway W 65th St, New York, NY 10023Choose What You PayMember Pre-sale: September 5 at noon \/ General On-sale: September 10 at noon\nSunday, November 17 at 7:30 PMSUNN O))) \/ Mabe FrattiWu Tsai Theater, David Geffen Hall10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023Choose What You PayMember Pre-sale: September 5 at noon \/ General On-sale: September 10 at noon\nMonday, November 18 at 7:00 PM, doors open at 6:30 PMKali Malone and Stephen O'Malley Talk about time, space, and music Giorno Poetry Systems222 Bowery New York, NY 10012Free admission \nUnsound New York 2024\nTaking place from November 14 to 17, the New York edition of Unsound includes three nights at Lincoln Center, partnerships with Pioneer Works and Dripping, and a program spanning experimental, electronic, avant-pop and club music. To make Unsound New York accessible, events are mostly Free or Choose What You Pay.\nShows at Lincoln Center include SUNN O))) who will perform at David Geffen Hall on November 17, returning to the live aspect in its core, original raw form. The opening act will be Guatemalan cellist and vocalist Mabe Fratti, who blends elements of folk, jazz, and avant rock.\nOn November 16, Stockholm-based American composer and organist Kali Malone will perform at Alice Tully Hall, presenting organ, choir, and brass compositions from her album All Life Long, featuring Stephen O\u2019Malley. Opening is Polish guitarist Raphael Rogi\u0144ski, presenting a live interpretation of his album, Plays Coltrane & Langston Hughes, joining him is drummer Jim White and vocalist Amirtha Kidambi.\nOn November 15, a night at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center features two free shows presenting Chuquimamani-Condori as well as Piotr Kurek presenting music from his Unsound-released album Smartwoods with a New York ensemble featuring harp, trumpet, clarinet, and bass. An opening prelude to the live concerts comes in the form of \u00cakhos, by Mariusz Szypura. \u00cakhos translates as \u201cnoise\u201d in ancient Greek, and this 25-minute audio-video 3D installation and synesthetic experience strives to put the audience in a state where, as Szypura says, \u201cwe start to see the music and hear the visuals\u201d.\nOn November 15 and 16, Unsound will collaborate with Pioneer Works to present Bia\u0142owie\u017ca, an installation by renowned field recordists Chris Watson and Izabela D\u0142u\u017cyk. In New York, Bia\u0142owie\u017ca will be presented in the form of an installation. This project was commissioned by Unsound, Atonal, Semibreve, and S\u00f3nar as part of the TIMES Platform\nThe festival will open November 14, with a night co-presented with Dripping at Nowadays veering from live experimental shows to club music, continuing into the early morning hours. \nOn November 18, Kali Malone and Stephen O'Malley will talk about time, space, and music, in a conversation moderated by Andy Battaglia. Part of Unsound New York 2024, this event is co-produced with Giorno Poetry Systems, an organization founded by John Giorno in 1965, and takes place in a building on the Bowery that served as his former home.\nThe history of the festival\nUnsound New York first took place in 2010 with major acclaim from press and fans alike. The festivals broad remit to combine live events with club events, the known with the unknown, and to include a good number of under-exposed (at that time) Polish and Eastern European acts was a winner. The Sunday New York Times declared \u2018Hello, New York: Avant Garde Eastern Europe\u2019 with a full-page feature that included festival co-founder Mat Schulz noting \u201cThe fact that (Unsound is) coming from Krakow in a sense makes it more interesting. It\u2019s not what you would expect, and it makes a comment about the way that culture now doesn\u2019t necessarily come from these precise points you\u2019d think it would come from. That\u2019s what this festival is about as well: disrupting preconceived notions of a lot of different types, not only about what a country or a city is, or what cultural centers are, but also what music is and how different kinds of music can be connected. That\u2019s really at the heart of the whole enterprise.\u201d This fortunately remains true for this year\u2019s edition of Unsound New York.\nPiotr Kurek is a Warsaw-based musician, multi-instrumentalist and composer. He\u2019s released music on Edi\u00e7\u00f5es CN, Mondoj, Hands In The Dark, Black Sweat Records and created soundtracks for theatrical works. The Wire noted that he takes inspiration from \u201cfolk legends, tales of international adventure and the small serendipities of the studio.\u201d Kurek also noted to them that his compositional process is \u201cvery linear. I want to have small coincidences and revelations, without any bombastic moments\u2026I don\u2019t subscribe to the idea of genre. Whatever I do has to have that element of adventure.\u201d\nLast year his album Smartwoods (perhaps his most adventurous album to date) was released on Unsound\u2019s imprint and has been described as \u201ca sprawling root system of tiny melodic phrases that loop and curl around subtly evolving instrumental thickets.\u201d Additionally, Philip Sherburne noted in Pitchfork that Smartwoods \u201cbroad, slightly ragtag swatches of color are reminiscent of (painters) Richard Diebenkorn (and) Helen Frankenthaler\u201d and that \u201cKurek\u2019s arrangements frequently sound like he has taken a passage from Talk Talk\u2019s (cult album) Laughing Stock. Piotr Kurek will make his New York debut performing material from Smartwoods (and more) live at Unsound New York 2024 with New York players on harp, trumpet, clarinet, and bass.\nIzabela D\u0142u\u017cyk is a Polish nature sound recordist. Born blind, D\u0142u\u017cyk developed interest in birds and began to record bird noises at the age of 12. Her specific sensitivity to birdsong has since grown into a wide-ranging artistic practice. Last year BBC World broadcast a documentary about D\u0142u\u017cyk during which she noted \u201chumans focus more on visual aspects. When observing birds, we mainly think about photography. We identify species based on their appearance rather than their sounds. When I listen not only to birds, but also to trees, I simply feel in the right place, with a sense of the deepest meaning of existence.\u201d\nAt Unsound New York 2024 she will present a new installation work Bia\u0142owie\u017ca in collaboration with noted British sound artist and field recordist Chris Watson. This newly commissioned installation premiered at Unsound\u2019s sister festival Ephemera in Warsaw earlier this year. It is based on field recordings made in Puszcza Bia\u0142owieska \u2013 Europe\u2019s last remaining primaeval forest, on the border between Poland and Belarus. In recent times, the forest has become a contentious place, initially due to logging and since late 2021, scores of migrants from Africa, the Middle East and South Asia have attempted to go through the forest and cross from Belarus into Poland and the European Union. Additionally, a metal wall has been constructed, dividing the forest, which has become a symbol of wider geopolitical tensions. The location provides the grounding for Bia\u0142owie\u017ca. The natural and unnatural sounds of the forest have therefore taken on layers of meaning.\nChris Watson is one of the UK\u2019s most celebrated sound recordists. Not only was he a founding member of Sheffield\u2019s influential Cabaret Voltaire and The Hafler Trio, but he\u2019s been developing his ear for field recording since the early \u201980s, working extensively for the BBC on numerous nature shows. As a solo artist, he\u2019s helped figure out a space between documentary and fantasy, collaborating with artists like BJ Nilsen, Z\u2019EV, KK Null and Philip Jeck. One of his longest collaborations has been with David Attenborough.\nIn New York, Bia\u0142owie\u017ca will be presented in the form of an installation. The project was commissioned by Unsound, Atonal, Semibreve and S\u00f3nar as part of the TIMES Platform.\nKali Malone, a Stockholm-based American composer and organist returns to New York City to present the organ, choir, and brass pieces from her highly acclaimed 2023 album All Life Long \u2013 a contemplative 78-minute suite for organ, brass quintet and chamber choir. Pitchfork gave the album an 8.3 rating and Best New Music tag noting the album is \u201ca fount of beauty, reflection, and perhaps even revelation.\u201d Interviewed in the New York Times about her work she noted \u201cYou can have knowledge about sound, you can have knowledge about structure, color, pitch, harmony, rhythm. But none of that means anything if you don\u2019t have knowledge of how to use it emotionally.\u201d In her hands, experimental minimalist reinterpretations of centuries-old polyphonic compositional methods become portals to new ways of perceiving harmony, structure, and introspection. She will perform on Alice Tully Hall\u2019s iconic pipe organ with additional 4-handed organ accompaniment by Stephen O\u2019Malley, together with the Anima brass quintet and a local choir (members to be announced soon).\nRaphael Rogi\u0144ski with Jim White & Amirtha Kidambi. Rogi\u0144ski returns to Unsound New York after presenting an intimate show last year at the David Rubenstein Atrium. This time around Rogi\u0144ski will focus on material featured on Unsound imprint\u2019s upcoming timely reissue of Rogi\u0144ski\u2019s out of print landmark 2016 album Plays Coltrane & Langston Hughes (for cult Polish label Bolt). Rogi\u0144ski has also just released a new album \u017daltys for Unsound\u2019s imprint. Picking the album as their folk album of the month, The Guardian noted \u201cThis searching, soulful release conjures up the spirit of summers spent by the lake and in the forest,\u201d going on to compare Rogi\u0144ski to Factory records\u2019 The Durutti Column, the early solo works of Ben Watt and the softer moments of Pat Metheny\u2019s jazz. Joining in on the praise, The Quietus picked \u017daltys as their album of the week noting \u2018this is a landmark album that inhabits both ancient and unkempt, overgrown and unruly,\u201d describing Roginski\u2019s playing as \u201clithe, his touch light but powerful. The uncluttered compositions are elegant but not without a certain wildness \u2013 an old, untouchedness \u2013 slithering from brambled undergrowth to sun-dappled clearing, and often playing out like light dancing on inky green scales.\u201d\nAt Unsound New York 2024, Roginski will present his distinct interpretations of Coltrane\u2019s compositions, played in a way that brings out unexpected textural and rhythmic qualities, often veering far from jazz. He will also perform songs that he\u2019s composed around the poetry of American poet and social activist Langston Hughes, including a few new compositions written for the Unsound reissue. Mostly performing solo, Rogi\u0144ski will also be joined by drummer Jim White and vocalist Amirtha Kidambi. Kidambi is invested in the creation and performance of subversive, anti-hegemonic music, from free improvisation and avant-jazz, to Indian carnatic and devotional, experimental bands, electronic music, noise and new music. This year she\u2019s been making waves worldwide with her band Amirtha Kidambi\u2019s Elder Ones following their album release New Monuments for We Jazz. Jim White is a drummer of note, having played with a who\u2019s who of pop music including Cat Power, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, and many others, leading to the New York Times labelling him \u201cyour Favorite Songwriter\u2019s Favorite Drummer\u201d earlier this year. He released his album All Hits: Memories this past March. He also plays in the bands the Dirty Three and Beings.\nImages: 1. Amirtha Kidambi, photo courtesy of the artist 2. Raphael Rogi\u0144ski, photo by Lenka Sieczkowska 3. Jim White by SarahK\nSUNN O))) returns to the live aspect in its core, original raw form for their only North American date of 2024. Founders and guitarists Stephen O\u2019Malley and Greg Anderson will perform at David Geffen Hall as a duo immersed in profound valve amplification, spectral harmonics, distortion, and volume transcending boundaries with their unique sonic language. Their excursions into pure and primeval riffs of temporality and massively heavy structures of sound pressure have been challenging how we think about music for over twenty years. Witness a live experience of physical sound, fog, and glacial maximalism like no other. SUNN 0))) have also collaborated with artists such as Scott Walker, Boris, Pan Sonic, Ulver, and Merzbow.\nMabe Fratti this Guatemalan cellist is a rising star with a wide range of listeners. Her music blurs the borders between folk, jazz, and avant rock, in service of rich, multi-layered works that center around her striking voice. She performs in the wake of her most recent album which brings her sound even closer to pop, though always driven by an experimental urge. Talking to The Fader in July about the album Sentir que no sabes she noted \u201cI never got to speak in tongues, but the cello would.\u201d The Guardian gave her album 5 Stars calling it \u201crich, rewarding, spellbinding music from a true original.\u201d Rolling Stone who\u2019ve placed her albums on year-end lists for the past two years noted \u201cFratti\u2019s emotional delivery is more resonant than ever.\u201d\nUnsound New York is part of Lincoln Center Presents and is co-organized by Fundacja Tone and co-presented by the Polish Cultural Institute New York. 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