Unsafe+Sounds

Festival for Challenging Music and Discourse
10 Years Unsafe+Sounds
5. – 15.09.2024 | Vienna, Austria
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“Of Many Worlds”

In 2024 Unsafe+Sounds is celebrating its ten-year jubilee! Almost 80 international and local artists and 30 speakers can be experienced in a total of nine days, on seven stages across the city.

The festival, which was founded by composer Matthias Kranebitter and has been under the artistic direction of Shilla Strelka since 2015, is centred around challenging music from a variety of different genres, including experimental electronic and advanced contemporary club sounds, or acoustic, as well as electroacoustic music. It puts sounds to the fore that exist outside the mainstream. Underground aesthetics and avantgarde strategies melt together in a highly subversive, idiosyncratic programme that reflects on the current state of our societies in an attempt to bring together forward-thinking artistic positions and fosters solidarity within the arts. In addition to the adventurously diverse music line-up, and besides performances and an exhibition format, an extensive discourse programme will explore this year’s festival theme. The artists presented are thus put into context with sociocultural topics and theoretical frameworks within the fields of sound studies, contemporary aesthetics, and philosophy, formulated in a five-day discourse programme.