Music
World-class, cutting-edge sound and performance warmed up a cold mid-winter weekend at the Dom Polski Centre in Adelaide, cementing Unsound as one of the most vital music festivals in the state.
InReview
Former Adelaide Festival artistic director David Sefton has blamed budget cuts and a “decimated” Arts SA sector for an international electronic music festival dropping Adelaide from its touring schedule.
Mat Schulz admits that when he launched the first Unsound festival of experimental and electronic music in the Polish city of Krakow in 2003, it was ‘a bit too weird for some’. Now, it has become a phenomenon internationally – including in Adelaide.
Former Adelaide Festival artistic director David Sefton is bringing the Unsound global experimental music showcase back to the city as a four-day stand-alone festival this November.
Heavy rhythms, hip-hop flows, deep base, fancy “Footwork”, virtual-reality microcosms and haemorrhage-inducing sets – Dominic J Clark surrenders to the Adelaide Festival’s Unsound world.
Health concerns have forced Los Angeles-based composer and performer Alessandro Cortini to cancel his appearance at the Adelaide Festival’s Unsound Adelaide event.
