Le Guess Who? participates in TIMES: The Independent Movement for Electronic Scenes

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TIMES (The Independent Movement for Electronic Scenes) is a cooperative project that brings together 10 European festivals to create original performances that combine music and visual arts. As well as shared programming of artists and the project's original creations, TIMES aims to support, promote, and improve diversity and sustainability within the music sector.

Co-funded by the European Union, TIMES is a collaboration between: Arty Farty/Nuits sonores (FR), Berlin Atonal (DE), Elevate (AT), Insomnia (NO), Le Guess Who? (NL), Reworks (GR), Semibreve (PT), Sónar (ES), Terraforma (IT), Unsound (PL), and the audiovisual partner Creative Broadcast (RO). The project is a successor to the We are Europe cooperation (2015-2022) and is co-funded by the European Union.

a dj is performing during an event, silhouettes of the audience are visible

In an era of dominating live music giants, surging hegemony phenomena, and artists’ fees rising, 10 European festivals have chosen to work together. Eager to introduce long-term collaborations in their practices, this approach will ensure greater sustainability in all its forms, build the conditions of more solidarity in the sector and boost opportunities for the electronic scenes.

By connecting emerging artists with more established ones and insuring their diffusion in some of the most influential European festivals, the 11 partners share the ambition of amplifying voices of artists and creators.

Recently, Le Guess Who? co-curated performances by Animistic Beliefs and MEMORIALS at Elevate Festival in Austria. The upcoming time, we will also be collaborating with Sónar in Spain and Insomnia in Norway.

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