UNSOUND 2024’s lineup is a dream for noise lovers the world across, featuring 20-odd artists The FADER has already covered glowingly. Among these: Actress, Amirtha Kidambi, Bill Callahan, The Body, Chuquimamani-Condori, DJ Anderson do Paraiso, Evian Christ, evilgiane, FUJI||||||||||TA, Heavee, Ka Baird, Kali Malone, Kode9, Laurel Halo, Lord Spikeheart, Mica Levi, ML Buch, Nídia, Rainy Miller, and Raven Chacon. Other standouts include noise titans Keiji Haino, Yellow Swans, and Sunn O))’s Stephen O’Malley, who is unlisted but will join Malone (his wife) during her set.
Supporting this panoply of international talent is a local roster recruited via open call. “You can send us ear-shredding work, sure,” the Shulz explained, “but we’re particularly interested in less literal, perhaps more playful interpretations of NOISE, somehow subverting the word.”
In advance of the festival, we asked the artists of UNSOUND 2024 to respond to the Mattin’s abstract inquiry — “What the fuck is noise?” — however they saw fit.