Episode 26: Live From Warszawa

Podcast: Critical Listening · Critical Listening

Opublikowano: 2026-10-16

We're back from Warsaw, Poland, where we recorded this episode live at the 24th edition of Unsound Festival. Our guests are the Polish composer Piotr Kurek, visual artist Wilhelm Sasnal, and Unsound co-founder Mat Schulz, who joined us to discuss a piece commissioned for this year's festival titled WARSZAWA. It's a wide-ranging and fascinating conversation involving David Bowie, the Polish state folk ballet, the nature of music influence and interpretation, and more. As the story goes, in 1976, David Bowie wandered off a train in Warsaw and was captivated by a record of local folk music, which he...