Apart from the main festival, Unsound regularly takes place in cities around the world such as New York,[1] London,[2] Adelaide,[3][4] Toronto,[5] Minsk,[6] and Tbilisi.
[8] The first Unsound festival in Kraków, Poland took place in 2003, starting out as a local, underground event in the city's cellar bars.
[10] In 2010, the festival developed its program and visual identity around the theme "Horror, the pleasure of fear and unease",[11] which explored the history and emerging trend of darkness in music.
[17] In Toronto in June 2015, Unsound adapted the abandoned Hearn Power Station to produce the first ever public event in the space in collaboration with Luminato Festival.
[citation needed] Unsound has also worked in the region of Eastern Europe, Central Asia and The Caucasus, to create mini-festivals with local partners and curators.
These scents and sounds were then used in an installation environment that premiered at Unsound Festival New York, and gained wide media attention.
[36][37] For the first time, Ephemera took the form of a live experience at Unsound Toronto on June 19, 2015, involving music by Tim Hecker, an olfactory component by Geza Schoen and lighting design by Marcel Weber.
[38] The critical reception for this work was highly positive, with the Canadian music website Exclaim writing "Ephemera is truly, unequivocally original – a sensory performance on a whole new level.