'Intermission' is the first album ever released by Unsound, comprised of 15 commissioned tracks responding to the pandemic year through sound and music. Meditative, often powerful, affected by periods of anxiety and optimism, this multi-layered album is intended to be more than a compilation.

Featuring work by artists connected to Unsound Festival over the years, 'Intermission' includes music and field recordings by some of today’s most exciting electronic and experimental musicians, with a focus on both well known and emerging names.

Although it can be experienced on its own, the album intersects with a book of essays, poetry and fiction to create a unique interdisciplinary work joining different opinions, narratives, art forms and genres. Together, the audio and texts comprise a kind of urgent atlas, one mapping innumerable paths through the strange new world in which we find ourselves.

Mastered and cut by Stefan Betke at scape mastering. 

Released on 5th March, 2021.

www.unsound.pl
www.unsoundfestival.bandcamp.com

V/A - Intermission (UNS001)

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Tracklist:

Dialect - Yamaha Birds 1 
Maria Karpovich & Felicity Mangan - Untitled
Hideki Umezawa & Andrew Pekler - Dokkyaku
Vlad Dobrovolski & Sugai Ken - Advanced Retrospective Shit-phonic 1
Olli Aarni - Hehkuva 
Audrey Chen & Hugo Esquinca - Untitled 
FRKTL - Excision After Love
Grand River - Canopies 
Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie - Aogaeru
Felicity Mangan - Frog field recording
Tomoko Sauvage - Flying Vessels
Lucy Railton - Part 3 (5 S-Bahn) 
Felicity Mangan - Double-headed Emu 
Felicity Mangan - Until Next Summer (featuring field recordings by Stas Sharifullin)

Guest mixes 2020

Episode 13: Felicity Mangan

TR160 - Joachim Nordwall - 'FORMS OF ECSTASY'

"For 0" is a radio show by usof where the most outward fringes of underground art are welcomed and brought together to create two hours of genderless musical submission.

@broshuda on the first hour with nothing but unreleased exclusives <3 
usof on the second with a lot of unreleased works and unreleased @wesurf

"for 0" #13 w/ Broshuda | Rádio Quântica

For this new episode  we are very happy to host Juliette aka Lunar Maria. The first time I met her we had a cup of tea, in the Père Lachaise Graveyard in Paris, it's an important detail to understand the character.
Juliette is very talented with the exercice of ambiance building. The universe she carries could be drawn  as wonderful « cabinet de curiosité »  filed with  bones , dust, dead flowers , old painting , and rusty sound box. As she loves romantic and decrepit things, for this episode, she decided to design a toxic forest atmosphere, that would perfectly match with nausicaa, or the lord of the rings for passage.

https://soundcloud.com/lunarrrmaria
https://www.instagram.com/jubtld/

Art by Otto Marseus "Three snakes, lizard and toad"  1663.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Otto_Marseus_van_Schrieck_-_Three_snakes,_lizard_and_toad_(1663).jpg

Design by Séraphine Suau .
https://www.instagram.com/designbyseraphine/

Mix serie 02 -  Lunar Maria "Forêt Toxique, Forêt magique"

Vert

Laila Sakini - The Potion In The Pool (Flora Yin-Wong Remix)

We are all experiencing very weird times very new combinations of feelings and tension.
WET presents first WET compilation of tension release with sensual deepness from innocent heretic, daniela huerta, polido feat. NM, ulla and perila and zaumne.

Intimate and seductive sonic wet research series with a therapeutic effect.
WET wants to support you. Succumb.

Glove Which Touched The Moss

ewa awe - Too Fast Now

f027 - Axine M - sunny petrichor

'Weavings (Part 1)' is part of the Unsound 'Intermission' compilation:

www.unsoundfestival.bandcamp.com

The track features Aho Ssan, Angel Bat Dawid, Dirar Kalash, Ellen Fullman, Księżyc, Laraaji, Nicolás Jaar, Pawel Szamburski, Resina, Rolando Hernandez and Wukir Suryadi. 
Created as part of the Unsound 2020 online program, 'Weavings' is a durational improvisation structured in the manner of a long fabric of sound. Conceived and curated with Nicolás Jaar, the performance hosted a number of artists and instrumentalists from around the world who linked up via Zoom, with a plugin used to facilitate real-time high-resolution audio collaboration. ‘Weavings (Part 1)’ is the first section of the piece.

Weavings (Part 1), mixed by Nicolás Jaar

This track is included on the Unsound 'Intermission' album:

https://unsoundfestival.bandcamp.com/

This is the first part of Community of Grieving, commissioned for Unsound 2020, a shared collective listening piece by Zosia Hołubowska and Julia Giertz. Described as ‘an audio ritual to collectively submit into intermission’, the full version of Community of Grieving draws on traditions of vesper and lament and merging formats of sonic meditation, sonic narration, and audio-essay.

Zosia Hołubowska & Julia Giertz - Community Of Grieving - Part 1

'Happy, Healthy, Safe' is part of the Unsound 'Intermission' compilation:

www.unsoundfestival.bandcamp.com

Hildur Guðnadóttir and Sam Slater’s track is based around a recording of their son Kári singing to himself during the COVID-19 lockdown in Berlin in the first part of 2020. ‘He does this when he's happy, and the result is an endless, often wordless improvised melody that floats around the house,’ says Sam. When asked to compose a piece inspired by lockdown, Hildur and Sam's response was to acknowledge that most of this time was purely domestic: homeschooling, playing football outside and keeping the neighbours' kids entertained, all with the consistent backdrop of mild dystopian panic. Kári's voice was the music they most frequently heard throughout the whole period.

Slater, Gudnadottir, Grisey - Happy Healthy Safe

'Aprte' is included in the Unsound 'Intermission' compilation:

www.unsoundfestival.bandcamp.com

Polish trio Bastarda have interpreted Medieval and Renaissance music related to death rituals as well as Hasidic Nigunim songs. Their piece ‘Aperte’, which means ‘opening’ in Latin, was recorded in May 2020. The composition is based on a chant from Valentin Triller’s Silesian Songbook (1555), corresponding with springtime in the Lutheran liturgical calendar. Bastarda’s intention was to find new energy—a metaphoric light in the darkness so many of us have experienced recently.

Bastarda - Aperte

'Unlocked' opens the Unsound 'Intermission' compilation, available via Bandcamp:

www.unsoundfestival.bandcamp.com

Unlocked’ is composed from field recordings made by Chris Watson during lockdown in May 2020. Beginning with the rediscovery of the sunrise soundtrack over his suburban garden in North-East England, the piece concludes on the basalt sea cliffs which form the natural defences of the 14th century Dunstanburgh Castle on the Northumberland coast. Watson says, ‘The solo song of a blackbird in my garden focussed my attention on the wildness that exists alongside us in our uncertain lives. My eventual escape out to Dunstanburgh on the coast was a timely reminder that the songs and signals of the natural world thrive on our absence.’

Chris Watson - Unlocked

NTS 2020.06.20 Bergsonist Presents: Comfort

An amorphous global-minded festival and creative platform dealing with music, sound, words and related visual arts. Founded in Krakow in 2003, Unsound has taken place in 30 cities around the world.

Chris Watson - Unlocked

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