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Unsound Festival Reviewed

Oren Ambarchi
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From NYTimes.com:

When the Unsound Festival, a highly regarded annual experimental-music series that started in Poland in 1993, first planted its flag in New York in 2010, it arrived with a vaguely precise mandate. “Advanced music,” Mat Schulz, the festival founder, put it in an interview in The New York Times that year: “a kind of approach to making music rather than strict definitions.” Accordingly, of-the-moment electronica jostled against outlier strains of classical music. After bypassing New York in 2013, Unsound returned this year with a five-day slate of events. The opening concert at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn on Wednesday, featuring the Australian multi-instrumentalist Oren Ambarchi and Roc Jiménez de Cisneros of the Barcelona electronica duo EVOL, heralded a new edition in which blurred stylistic lines have grown fuzzier still.


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