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Unearthing The Music travels to Hungary and Latvia

OUT.RA's research project documenting experimental and underground music in pre-1989 Eastern Europe takes to the road this autumn

The team behind Portugal’s OUT.FEST festival will be taking their Unearthing The Music: Creative Sound And Experimentation In Non-Democratic Europe project back to the source in the coming weeks.

On 29 September Budapest’s UH Fest will host an evening honouring computer music pioneer Tamas Ungvary, featuring appearances by Ungvary himself, as well as Ákos Nagy, Bálint Baráth and Kristóf Siklósi. A week later on 5 October Unearthing The Music present the work of Soviet era Russian avant garde composer Edison Denisov, plus Portuguese composer Cândido Lima live, at Riga’s Skaņu Mežs festival. There will also be a panel discussion about underground and experimental music in pre-1989 communist Eastern Europe featuring Leipzig based writer/researcher Alexander Pehlemann, Soviet underground rock critic and author Artemy Troitsky, Latvian musicologist Boriss Avramecs and The Wire's Editor-in-Chief Chris Bohn, who wrote about underground music in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland and non-aligned Yugoslavia in the UK music press during the late 1970s and 80s.