'Unsound Festival New York' Opens 2/4/2010 With Free Concerts at Lincoln Center's David Rubenstein Atrium

One of Europe's leading new musical Festival's Unsound will come to New York for the first time, when Unsound Festival New York (February 4-14, 2010) opens at Lincoln Center on February 4, starting at 8:30 p.m. with two performances presented as part of the Target® Free Thursdays series at Lincoln Center's new David Rubenstein Atrium. Two U.S. Debuts will take place that evening: Vladislav Delay, one of the most innovative musicians working in electronic music today and Lillevan, the highly-regarded video artist who has worked with Fennesz and Morton Subotnik, will continue an ongoing collaboration on a brand new free-form audio and visual improvisation, creating their performance specifically for the Atrium. Sebastian Meissner, Germany's well-known producer of electronic music, who also works under the name Klimek, will collaborate with Kwartludium, one of Poland's most innovative classical/avant-garde quartets. Together, as Solid State Transmitters, they will perform an homage to the artists and sound of California's infamous punk label SST records, often described as the most influential and popular underground indie label of the Eighties. This work had its debut at Unsound Festival Krakow 2009.

Since 2003, Unsound, Poland's most adventurous music festival, has taken place in Kraków a city known more as a hotbed of tradition. Unsound Festival New York will offer a week's worth of ambitious lineups, featuring artists from Europe and the US. The February 4 opening event is free and open to the general public; seating is limited and is on a first-come, first-served basis. The evening is co-presented by Unsound Festival New York with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. The event is co-presented by Tone Foundation, the Polish Cultural Institute in New York, the Goethe-Institut New York And the Consulate General of Finland New York. For more information visit: http://unsound.pl/en

Launched on November 19, Target® Free Thursdays brings free public performances by a wide-range of popular artists to the new David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center every Thursday night throughout the year. For more information, and a schedule of Target® Free Thursdays performances visit www.LincolnCenter.org/Atrium.

Unsound Festival New York and Lincoln Center Target® Free Thursdays present
VLADISLAV DELAY & LILLEVAN - A/V Concert (USA debut)
SEBASTIAN MEISSNER + KWARTLUDIUM = SOLID STATE TRANSMITTERS (USA debut)
Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 8:30 p.m.
At David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center
61 West 62 Street, New York, NY 10023
Admission: Free; no tickets required, limited seating; first-come, first-served

ABOUT THE ARTISTS AND WORKS

Vladislav Delay, Uusitalo, Luomo, Conoco, Sistol. Under a raft of different names Finnish artist Sasu Ripatti has experimented with ambient, broken beat, glitch as well as grooves and house music with soulful vocals. In addition he has collaborated with and worked for a wide range of artists ranging from Scissor Sisters and Craig Armstrong to AGF, Black Dice, Massive Attack, Towa Tei and Ryuichi Sakamoto. While his side-projects and remixes are there to flirt with more stable rhythms and dancefloor institutions, his main love as well as his background is in experimenting with different kind of sounds and rhythms; a quest to find some music not heard yet. The soundtrack of Vladislav Delay.

His most recent album is the record Tummaa for Leaf. Sasu will also be appearing with the Moritz von Oswald trio during Unsound Festival New York.

Visuals from Delay's recent collaboration with Lillevan at Dis-patch Festival can be seen at http://www.vladislavdelay.com/site/?page_id=387

Lillevan is an animation, video and media artist. He is perhaps best known as founding member of the visual / music group Rechenzentrum (1997-2008).

Parallel to his work in Rechenzentrum, he has performed and collaborated with many artists from a wide array of genres, from opera to installation, from minimal electronic experimentalism to dance and classical music. Among the artists Lillevan is currently collaborating with are Fennesz, Zeitkratzer Ensemble, Vladislav Delay and Morton Subotnick. Lillevan has performed and exhibited all over the globe, and has performed at all the major media festivals.

Lillevan and Vladislav Delay have collaborated many times during the last eight years-most recently on the work "KinoVido" seen in 2009 at the Skanu Mezs Festival in Riga and Dis-Patch Festival in Belgrade and in a recently performed A/V concert together at the Cimatics Festival in Brussels in November 2009.

Additionally Lillevan will be creating a special series of "Screen Tests" for Unsound Festival New York, something he previously did at Unsound Krakow. Read more about this at http://www.lillevan.com/works/warhol-krakow

Sebastian Meissner + Kwartludium = Solid State Transmitters' collaboration is not a literal translation of SST works but a tribute to the spirit and anarchic energy of this label and its artists, as well as a period of time when musical diversity, discovery and creation of new genres had a higher priority than profit. Without cliché, essential and influential songs from the SST catalogue have been reinterpreted in a surprising, often strikingly beautiful manner, to reveal the persisting uniqueness and relevance of this era.

As a label SST sought to expand beyond the limitations of the hardcore genre, releasing key albums that were essential in the development of American alternative rock, including releases by Black Flag, the Minutemen, Hüsker Dü, Soundgarden, Screaming Trees, Bad Brains, The Meat Puppets, Sonic Youth, and Dinosaur Jr. For a more in depth look at the story of SST read - http://www.furious.com/perfect/sst1.html

Sebastian Meissner works as a media artist using sound, video and photography. Employing multiple artistic personas (Autokontrast, Autopoieses, Buzz Circuits, Klimek, Open Source, Random Industries, Random Inc), his works deal with and negotiate urban/cultural/social scenarios, randomness, historical music archives and strategies of networking. He works with computer music sources, sampling and moving photography assembling their interrelation within geographic / historical / political discourses.

Over the years his works have been widely presented at festivals far and wide. Labels such as Kompakt, Sub Rosa and Mille Plateaux have released his work. Additionally, Meissner established the network platform Intifada Offspring in order to look for new perspectives on the middle-east region.

His Solid State Transmitters based collaboration with Kwartludium is his second project with the group. The project debuted at Unsound Krakow in October 2009. The performance at Lincoln Centre New York will be its American premiere

Polish contemporary music ensemble Kwartludium consists of Dagna Sadkowska (violin), Michal Górczy?ski (clarinet, bass clarinet), Pawel Nowicki (percussion) and Piotr Nowicki (piano) all four collectively graduates from the Music Academies of Warsaw, Bydgoszcz and Gdansk. Active since 2002, the ensemble named themselves after the first composition written for them by Bartosz Kowalski-Banasewicz.

Kwartludium focus on performing works of young composers active both in Poland and abroad. Contemporary improvised music plays an important role in the group's activity. In the repertoire of Kwartludium are graphic and intuitive compositions of composers such as Stockhausen, Bergstroem-Nielsen, Cardew, Stark, Wolf, Rasmusen and Detoni.

The ensemble has a broad artistic output that has included many Polish and worldwide premiere performances. Kwartludium have performed extensively at festivals throughout Poland including with Sebastian Messier at The Festival of Dialogue of Four Cultures in Lodz in September 2008 and Unsound Krakow in October 2009. The group's debut album was released in 2007 on the DUX label.

About Unsound Festival New York
Unsound Festival New York will continue Unsound Festival's ongoing mission to forge links between experimental and post-classical music genres, between the generations and even between artistic practices. The driving force in the assembling of the program is Unsound Festival's commitment to forms of music and sound art that involve experimentation and risk.

Unsound Festival has made a worldwide reputation by taking risks and breaking new ground while dealing with vibrant electronic, experimental, independent and club music scenes from around the world.

Unsound Festival New York, presented by:
Unsound, Fundacja Tone, the Polish Cultural Institute in New York and the Goethe-Institut New York.
In cooperation with:
Trust for Mutual Understanding, the Romanian Cultural Institute New York, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Consulate General of Finland New York, Pro Helvetia, Fonds Pop Over Zee, Backspin Promotions, Beyond Booking, the Bunker, Devotion Gallery Electronic Music Foundation, ISSUE Project Room, Treehouse, Wordless Music, Today's Art

About the David Rubenstein Atrium
Serving the entire Upper West Side community, the Atrium will offer-for the first time in Lincoln Center history-day-of discount tickets to available performances across the campus (beginning January 7), in addition to access to full-price tickets via onsite kiosks and telephone services. Along with free performances, including Target® Free Thursdays every Thursday night of the year, other attractions and amenities in this new public space include: a ‘wichcraft café, a departure point for expanded Lincoln Center tours, a staffed Information Desk, free Wi-Fi, and restrooms. Beginning December 17, The Atrium will be open Monday-Friday 8 am-10 pm and Saturday and Sunday 9 am-10 pm.

About Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center is the world's leading performing arts complex, representing the highest standards of excellence in opera, symphonic and chamber music, theater, dance, film, and arts education. Its 12 resident organizations - The Chamber Music Society, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., Lincoln Center Theater, The Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet, New York City Opera, New York Philharmonic, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and School of American Ballet - welcome 5 million visitors each year. After five decades of artistic excellence and service to its community, the nation and the world, Lincoln Center has begun a major transformation initiative to fully modernize its concert halls and public spaces, renew its 16-acre campus, and reinforce its vitality for decades to come.

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