As previously reported, this year’s longrunning Polish music festival will take place online between 1–11 October.

Key to its programme is a new book and album featuring freshly commissioned texts, music and sound works that respond both to the current Covid-19 pandemic and the contradictions found in this year’s core theme: intermission. The book explores a range of subjects such as making music, protests, online intimacy and solidarity, ecology, mental health, audio-virology, machine listening, and more; and its contributors include Agata Pyzik, Ayesha Hameed, Dave Tompkins, Deforrest Brown Jr, Ewa Majewska, Gamall Awad, Jace Clayton, Jennifer Lucy Allan, Joel Stern & James Parker from Liquid Architecture, Moor Mother, Kristen Gallernaux and Steve Goodman. Artists on the companion album include 33EMYBW, Bastarda, Chris Watson, Deforrest Brown Jr & James Hoff, Jana Winderen, Jlin, Lutto Lento, Moor Mother & Geng, Sam Slater, Hildur Guðnadóttir & Kári Grisey, Slikback, Tim Hecker, Agata Harz & Katarzyna Smoluk and Vargtss (Varg X Vtss).

Published on 16 November, the physical format edition includes a digital download of the album, which is also available to buy separately.

The festival programme announced so far includes Deforrest Brown Jr & James Hoff presenting a new audiovisual project that examines a geographic history of race in America; Moor Mother working with DJ Haram as 700 Bliss to collaborate with Pussykrew; and Hubert Zemler & Miłosz Pękala performing live percussive interpretations of two compositions by Jlin. And Kode9 will be presenting an an audiovisual work based on his contribution to the book.

In other news, Liquid Architecture have curated a Machine Listening curriculum; and an Unsound Patreon campaign has been launched.