We'll be presenting a series of talks at this
year's Unsound festival in Krakow, Poland, chaired and hosted by
Wire contributors Dave Tompkins and Andy Battaglia.
Tompkins (author of vocoder history How To Wreck A Nice
Beach) will be giving a talk on Miami Bass music, and
presenting a rare recording of the 1977 Radiophonic Workshop radio
adaptation of Ray Bradbury's There Will Come Soft Rains.
Biosphere, Lustmord and MFO's Marcel Weber will discuss their
Unsound commissioned project Trinity, and Strange
Attractor's Mark Pilkington will talk on Magic And Pop Music In
Britain From 1888 To 1978.
Author Evan Calder Williams will track back through 150 years of
apocalyptic fantasies, and Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin will
discuss their recent collaboration. Andy Battaglia hosts a Q&A
with Andy Votel, and will moderate panels on the current state of
the music industry and this year's Unsound theme, The End.
Other talks include a session with Theo Parrish in conversation
with Eltron John and Resident Advisor's Todd Burns in conversation
with Demdike Stare and Jamal Moss (aka Hieroglyphic Being).
Blackest Ever Black label head Kiran Sande talks to Stuart
Argabright (of Black Rain) about endings, and Polish magazine
Glissando hosts panels on post-humanism and sound, and the notion
of the artist.
Unsound's film season includes Rob Van Eyck's 1985
dialogue-less post-nuclear howl The Aftermath, Sandy
Whitelaw's Lifespan, a 1975 meditation on ageing with a
score by Terry Riley, plus exploitation trash fest Point Of No
Return Vol.2: She, fall out survivor flick The People Who
Own The Dark, plus an opening night marathon of the Orson
Welles documentary The Late Great Planet Earth, This
Is Not A Test, 50s nuclear educational videos and more. Full
film screening details here, and discussion programme here.
