Unsound Festival

Unsound focuses on a broad swath of contemporary music emerging, experimental, and leftfield whose sweep doesnt follow typical genre constraints. Influential, it has developed a reputation for identifying innovative scenes and radical sounds. Founded in 2003, Unsound wasnt always the festival it is now. The very first edition ended with artists thrown out of a club for playing music that was too weird for regular patrons. Now, with the main festival still happening every year at a number of venues across Krakow, regular events also take place in New York, Adelaide, Toronto, and London. Between 2016 and 2018, Unsound also produced eleven festivals in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus, part of a long history of working with curators and artists in the post-Soviet region. As well as spotlighting emerging artists, Unsound also commissions new shows and encourages transborder collaborations, adapts and reimagines abandoned spaces for concerts and club nights, manages cut...