Romanian Electro at Unsound Fest NY |
New York Times dedicated event feature, January 29:
Hello, New York: Avant-Garde Eastern Europe
Unsound Festival New York is a major 10-day event, aiming to forge links between experimental and post-classical music genres, showcasing artists from Western, Central and Eastern Europe, and North America. "Eastern Promise," a massive undertaking in the festival program, brings together producers and musicians from Poland, Romania, Ukraine, and Belarus who will perform alongside their West European and US counterparts. This will be the largest number of such artists assembled at any festival of this kind in America.
Romanian artists Petre Inspirescu and TRG will perform in the festival, with support from RCINY, on February 12 & 13. They will also participate to the panel discussions hosted at the Goethe-Institut's Wyoming Building.
Panel Discussion: Bass Mutations
13.02.10 // 15:30 // Wyoming Building How have bass-heavy forms of music shifted in recent years? Where did the genre called dubstep come from—and where is it leading? How does it differ in New York, London, Berlin, Minsk and Bucharest? Writer Mitch Strashnov (URB, Electrodrone) will lead a discussion with artists from the Bass Mutations club-night lineup.
Panel Discussion: Connections
14.02.10 // 15:30 // Wyoming Building
Presentation of "Eastern Promise," emerging from ideas integral to Unsound and its international projects - in New York, Poland, Eastern Europe. This includes "Connections," which linked Belarus and Western European electronic musicians. With "Connections" co-ordinators Stefan Betke (scape) and Mat Schulz (Unsound), as well as Pavel Ambiont (Belarus), Zenial (Poland), Petre Inspirescu (Romania).
Established in 2003 and based in Krakow, Poland, Unsound has an international reputation as the most cutting edge music / arts festival in Eastern Europe. Unsound has also staged travelling festivals in different Central and Eastern European capitals, such as Prague, Kiev, Warsaw and Minsk.
In his home town of Bucharest, Romania, Petre Inspirescu aka Pedro has long been a pivotal figure alongside his frequent accomplices Raresh and Rhadoo. He started djing in 1999 in a small club called Web Club. In the last two years, his appearances in Ibiza and throughout Europe have brought his name to many listeners' lips, heightening interest in the fertile Romanian scene-an unexpected outpost of advanced electronic music. From the very beginning Pedro has been strongly affected by deep house tunes and the multitude variety of grooves - not only in electronic music. His DJ sets are as sonically baffling as they are irresistibly groovy, as a producer his tracks are as unhinged as they are methodical. 2007 became an important year for Pedro as producer, he started to release tracks on Vinylclub Records, and together with his mates Raresh and Rhadoo they founded their own label [a:rpia:r] - becoming a playground not only for the creative trio but also for equally talented young artists from Romania.
TRG is Cosmin Nicolae, is a figure that shows the centres of creating bass heavy music are splintering, and that cutting edge club music is arriving from unexpected places. The excitement surrounding Bucharest's dubstep sensation TRG has been steadily growing, with Mary Anne Hobbs championing his first release, /Put You down/ Broken Heart/ on Radio 1, and an enviable slew of praise from the press and blogosphere. Later tracks on Hotflush, Hessle Audio, Subway, Immerse, Audio Freakz have put TRG firmly on the music map, with sonic excursions from 'dubbed-out minimal finesse' to 'mutant garage revival' to 'full-on breakbeat mayhem'. Says the influential US music portal Pitchfork: "More evidence that swing is in the air comes from an unlikely location: Romanian producer TRG. As new school Dubstep wallows in mid-range distorted synths and energy through b-line modulation, this producer seems to have found a rich vein of form inspired by Dubstep's earliest years."
Unsound Festival New York is presented by Unsound, the Polish Cultural Institute in New York, Goethe-Institut New York in collaboration with Austrian Cultural Forum, Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, Consulate General of Switzerland in New York, and with the support of the Trust for Mutual Understanding, City of Krakaw Festival Office, Finish Music Export Office
[Image: Petre Inspirescu]
| February 4-14, 2010
UNSOUND FESTIVAL NEW YORK
FRI, February 12, 2010, 10 pm
Petre Inspirescu @ 3 am
BUNKER PUBLIC ASSEMBLY
70 North 6th Street, Brooklyn
SAT, February 13, 2010, 12 am
TRG
BUNKER PUBLIC ASSEMBLY
70 North 6th Street, Brooklyn
SAT & SUN, February 13-14, 2010, 3:30 pm
PANEL DISCUSSIONS including Romanian artists
GOETHE-INSTITUT WYOMING BUILDING
5 East 3rd St., New York, NY 10003
For festival program, artists, venues and tickets visit the website
Unsound Festival New York
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