WEDNESDAY APRIL 6th 2011 – UNSOUND FESTIVAL NEW YORK: OPENING NIGHT

Music for SOLARIS (North American Debut) a tribute to the novel “Solaris” by Stanislaw Lem.  Composed for twenty‐nine string players, two percussionists, prepared piano, guitars and electronics. Performed by BEN FROST (Iceland/Australia), DANÍEL BJARNASON (Iceland), SINFONIETTA CRACOVIA (Poland) with film manipulations from BRIAN ENO / NICK ROBERTSON (UK)

KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI (Poland) performed by SINFONIETTA CRACOVIA (Poland)
STEVE REICH (USA) performed by SINFONIETTA CRACOVIA (Poland)

Ben Frost

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PRESENTED BY:  Unsound Festival New York, Sacrum Profanum, The Adam Mickiewicz institute, Krakow Festival Office, the Polish Cultural Institute in New York and the Goethe-Institut New York @ Alice Tully Hall Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, 1941 Broadway, New York, NY

(All images courtesy of Unsound Festival New York)