Kelman Duran (do)

© Kelman Duran

pres. ""Pitch, Pigeon, Puerta"

One of the festival highlights is “Pitch, Pigeon, Puerta,” a commissioned work by Dominican producer and musician Kelman Duran, initiated by the Le Guess Who, Insomnia, Nuits Sonores, and Elevate festivals as part of the EU project TIMES. Duran developed the transdisciplinary, multisensory piece together with Finland-based musician, artistic researcher, and composer AGF aka Antye Greie-Ripatti, Puerto Rican movement artist Kianí del Valle, and light artist Theresa Baumgartner. In addition, percussionist Lukas Koenig will join the crew as a residency artist at Elevate. “Pitch, Pigeon, Puerta” focuses on the human voice and addresses issues of migration and diaspora. Different languages, rhythms, and sound fragments are woven into a raw, poetic structure of punk poetry and free jazz sounds, accompanied by dance and light choreography.