Unsound was established in 2003 in Krakow, Poland, as a festival of advanced music. Starting out as an underground event, in recent years the festival has grown in size and name.
Unsound currently produces an annual festival in Krakow at the end of October each year, and in spring 2011 produced the second Unsound Festival New York, with local producers, curators, venues and cultural institutes in that city.
Also with local partners, Unsound has created smaller events in Prague, Warsaw, Bratislava, Kyiv and Minsk, the capital of Belarus. Unsound is interested in the idea of cross border collaboration, and thinking of the festival as a tool for commissioning and fostering new work. As well as this, Unsound is focused on promoting music from Poland and generally the region east of Berlin.
Unsound’s roots go back even further than Poland, though, to the small Australian country city of Wagga Wagga, Australia. The first Unsound event took place here, with a different organization team, many moons ago. Today, Unsound in Wagga Wagga no longer exists, but the name lives on, in the form of the Polish festival, which has its own trajectory and profile.
Unsound is produced by Fundacja Tone, a Krakow not-for-profit organization.
Past events
- Unsound – “Surprise”
- Unsound Kraków 2016
- Unsound: Flower Power
- Unsound Kraków 2022: BUBBLES
- SHAPE+ x Mutant Radio
- Unsound 2024
In press
- SHAPE+ announces 2024/2025 roster of artists
- SHAPE+ announces 2023/2024 roster of artists
- SHAPE+ platform announces open call for 2023/2024
- Photos: SHAPE at Unsound: Flower Power
- Olivia: ‘Parties are not only about music, we should also act more’
- Watch a video about Unsound Festival 2016
- Pictures: SHAPE @ Unsound 2016
- Pictures: SHAPE at Unsound 2015
- RSS B0YS live at Unsound 2015!
- 10 SHAPE showcases in October
- Listen to SHAPE September radio on Resonance FM
- Zamilska: ‘I’ve never been a techno queen’
- Between Philip Glass and Diamanda Galás: An interview with Księżyc
- Special Resonance FM show on Księżyc
- Księżyc tonight on Resonance FM
- Zamilska’s SHAPE mix for NTS Live
- RSS B0YS don’t believe in hype