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Unsound Festival New York starts Wednesday April 6th with Unsound’s largest event to date – the festival’s official opening – at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall.

Official Unsound Festival website

Celebrating the concepts, ideas and joy of creative music in its many forms – from lowbrow to high – Unsound Festival has built a reputation as one of Europe’s most original events pushing boundaries. Through the evolution of a unique and visionary curatorial approach, Unsound Festival has inspired visitors and locals alike in their hometown of Krakow, Poland, since its inception in 2003. Having organized additional events in Prague, Warsaw, Bratislava, Kiev and Minsk, Unsound and their principal organizing group Fundacja Tone looked West for the first time and teamed up with the Polish Cultural Institute in New York and the Goethe-Institute New York to bring a surprise-packed eleven-day festival to New York in February of 2010. In New York and across America, music fans and the press alike embraced Unsound Festival New York as a refreshing addition to the city calendar and quickly realized that Unsound provided a very different model even for New York, where every day can feel like a music festival. Enraptured by what they saw, Urb magazine described Unsound as “scene-shifting” and declared that the festival instantly “cemented its status as one of the most important cultural festivities in New York City.” While Jon Pareles wrote in the New York Times that the Festival “claims a shrewdly amorphous domain: a zone in a virtual Europe (including Eastern Europe and Scandinavia) where electronics; arty, multimedia experiments; chamber-music meticulousness; punk impulses; and D.J. dance beats may all appear amid clouds of noise…this festival’s aesthetic: high-tech, allusive and not to be pinned down.”

Unsound experienced perhaps their most successful Krakow event to date this past October which was praised by Fact Magazine as a festival to be lauded for “its commitment to affording artists of considerable cult and critical renown the opportunity to realize grand projects and perform in grand spaces; to instill a level of trust in these artists that most safety-first festivals are incapable of, or unwilling to, countenance.” Now, with the same passion for the unusual that made them so noticeable, Unsound Festival New York is set to return to New York this coming April 2011.

Working once again with the Polish Cultural Institute in New York and the Goethe-Institut New York, as well as a host of other key partners and sponsors, Fundacja Tone and Unsound are preparing to continue their mission to bring underexposed East European artists to New York and to boldly show yet again the many faces of creative music. As the Village Voice noted in February 2010, “…the purpose of the Unsound Festival is to repel the baseless, spectacle-heavy notion that only a few states in the U.S. and a few countries in Western Europe are capable of making great, weird music that is riveting, outrageous, and thought-provoking.”