TIMES — The Independent Movement for Electronic Scenes
As a key partner of the TIMES project, Nuits sonores has conceived a part of its programme in collaboration with three European festivals and commissioned an original multidisciplinary piece.
Co-funded by the European Union and coordinated by Arty Farty, The Independent Movement for Electronic Scenes (TIMES) is a collaboration between ten European electronic and contemporary music festivals working together on the commissioning of original works in music and digital arts, as well as on the co-programming of artists and thinkers. TIMES also aims to support, promote, and enhance the sustainable practices of its partners—whether social, environmental, or economic.
The partners are: Berlin Atonal (DE), Elevate (AT), Insomnia (NO), Le Guess Who? (NL), Nuits sonores (FR), Reworks (GR), Semibreve (PT), Sónar (ES), Terraforma (IT), and Unsound (PL).
As a stakeholder in the project, Nuits sonores hosts TIMES curations—programmes designed in collaboration with its partner festivals. Pitch, Pigeon, Puerta, the multidisciplinary work co-produced by Nuits sonores, Insomnia, Le Guess Who?, and Elevate, bringing together AGF, Kelman Duran, Kiani del Valle, Theresa Baumgartner, and Lukas Koenig, will also be presented on Saturday, May 16, 2026, on the Darse stage at Les Grandes Locos.
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Kelman Duran, AGF, Kianí del Valle & Theresa Baumgärtner present Pitch, Pigeon, Puerta’ (live)
Pitch, Pigeon, Puerta unfolds from the music of Dominican producer and musician Kelman Duran, of the musician, researcher, and AGF—born in East Germany and based in Finland—along with the work of Puerto Rican dancer and choreographer Kianí del Valle, and features an original lighting design by visual artist Theresa Baumgartner.
The work experiments with a multiplicity of voices, pitches, vocal expressions, languages, samples, and rhythms, weaving them into a sonic tapestry on stage. By approaching migratory journeys as unwritten and uncomfortable—sometimes unspeakable—the piece unfolds through enigmatic and unconventional sounds, at times dissonant and off-tempo. On stage, the exploration of these singular life experiences takes shape through punk poetry and sonorities drawn from free jazz.
The recorded voices of artists Aleksandra Popovska, Dylan Hunter, Chee Greene, Loveth Besamoh, Razeen Khattab, Safiya Juliana, and Tehani Amarasuriya resonate throughout the performance in multiple languages, including Arabic, Papiamento, Pidgin English, Tamil, Macedonian, and English. Through this exploration of sound and movement, the artists invite us to question how our conditioning toward different voices and languages shapes our perception of the world.
