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CTM Festival

Festival for Adventurous Music & Art, Berlin

Multi-perspective experiences, critical reflection, hedonism, & collaborative learning

Berlin’s CTM Festival supports an open, networked, mutually-collaborative, global music culture through its yearly 10-day festival as well as countless collaborative and research initiatives, co-commissions, concerts, and other constantly-evolving formats. The 20 year-old festival stands out for its conscious pairing of daring artistic content and adventurous club experiences with an in-depth discourse programme, framing today’s sounds and music cultures within a shifting, hybrid global society.

15/04/2025

This Thursday, SUMAC and Moor Mother will make your psyches quake, after a soul-hypnotizing weirdout from Pharaoh Overlord! Please note we've moved the show from Festsaal Kreuzberg to Bi Nuu! Tickets: https://disk.stager.co/shop/default

03/04/2025

Japanese metal legends SIGH (official page) keep mutating, slithering through time, never resting. Over three decades deep into their warped existence, they still refuse to be caged.
› Tickets: disk.stager.co/shop/default

What began in a fog of uncertainty, bashing out demos in a country that didn’t even recognize their kind of chaos, became something monstrous, something that couldn’t be ignored. The weight of death hangs heavier now, creeping into every note, every breath.

Boundaries blur, time folds in on itself. Midnight happens twice. The past and the future grind against each other in a mess of flutes, saxophones, and bone-crushing riffs. The machine at the core of it all—a drummer with no limits, a guitarist bleeding melody—keeps the engine roaring no matter how rusted the frame becomes. A mind fixated on its own decay spits out visions of falling cherry blossoms, a life unraveling in real-time; even the language bends to serve this truth: no translations, no filters, only the blunt force of syllables hammering home what it means to rot while still breathing.

Sigh join New York’s IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT Aug. 10 at Bi Nuu for Imperial Triumphant & Sigh.

› Tickets: disk.stager.co/shop/default

01/04/2025

Coming up soon—we're igniting Festsaal Kreuzberg with SUMAC & Moor Mother | Support: Pharaoh Overlord in the tectonic heaviness and searing poetics of their upcoming album The Film on Thrill Jockey.
› disk.stager.co/shop/default

SUMAC's shifting sludge, hardcore, and noise form a jagged backdrop for Moor Mother's incisive narratives, her spectral voice and industrial soundscapes confronting history’s wounds with unflinching force. Don't miss this raw, time-warped odyssey of survival and resistance, where distortion and defiance coil into volatility and vitality.

19/03/2025

With their fourth album Raw Blood Singing, Insect Ark push further into a realm of meticulous aural excavation: cavernous doomgaze swells and experimental textures structured in a stunning display of dynamic control.

Grinding metal down to its raw essence, pulverized bass, lap steel that pierces like a memory, and deep, throbbing synths shift between suffocating weight and vast atmosphere. With the long-absent presence of vocals reemerging, this is a performance that seeps into the bones, thrumming long after you leave.

The perfect opening to our August 5th concert at Bi Nuu with experimental black metalists Oranssi Pazuzu—a night where ears are made to twist and churn, shredding the line between physical and spectral.

› Oranssi Pazuzu | Support: Insect Ark

28/02/2025

SUMAC & Moor Mother | Support: Pharaoh Overlord
April 17 | Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin
› Tickets: disk.stager.co/web/tickets

SUMAC and Moor Mother collide onstage for their new album »The Film«, a feral onslaught of sludge, noise, and radical poetics, tearing open history’s wounds and demanding reckoning. Finnish duo Pharaoh Overlord set the stage with hypnotic krautrock, industrial grind, and synth-laced delirium.

»The Film« is out April 25th on Thrill Jockey Records.

Video: SUMAC live, 2022

05/02/2025

A huge thank you to everyone who helped make CTM 2025 such a momentous 10 days of performances, exchanges, and encounters that went straight to the heart. Through uncertainty and chaos we’ve crossed the sonic void: eardrums pummeled and bodies resonating, hyper-chakras thrumming with inspiration and energy born on the dancefloor and the liminal worlds opened on and off stage.

We heard from many of you how important and relieving coming together and rebuilding connections through shared music experiences felt this year. For us it was equally nourishing and deeply meaningful to be in community with you all through sound.

We’re very much looking forward to resting now, and we hope you are as well—but not for long. With this recharged energy we feel better placed to take on upcoming challenges. We’ve got much in the making already, that we can’t wait to share with you soon.

With much love until then,
The CTM Team 💜💤

23/01/2025

Tomorrow, CTM Festival 2025 kicks off! Our full trailer is packed with our incredible lineup this year. Get your tickets now—they’re going fast for all our concerts, workshops and club nights: ctm-festival.de/festival-2025/programme/schedule

21/01/2025

CTM presents a monolithic lineup at Festsaal Kreuzberg headlined by the ferocious trio SUMAC in collaboration with poet-musician Moor Mother, with support from krautrock experimentalists Pharaoh Overlord: disk.stager.co/web/tickets

Known for colossal compositions built on toxic slump-dump sludge, hardcore, and improvisational noise, the trio of Aaron Turner (ISIS, Old Man Gloom), Brian Cook (Botch, Russian Circles), and Nick Yacyshyn (Baptists) waggle their sonic extremities with a leer even as they wield them as tools for transformation. Coming together in a sprawling collaboration, the new Thrill Jockey Records-released »The Film« brings together their guttural distortion with the industrial chaos and viciously uncompromising lyricism of musician-poet Moor Mother. SUMAC’s malleable approach to heaviness forms a jagged canvas for her spectral voice.

Opening the night, Pharaoh Overlord brings their ever-evolving aural experimentations. Once rooted in stoner rock, the Finnish duo, consisting of Jussi Lehtisalo (Circle, Ektro) and Tomi Leppänen (Circle, K-X-P), both long-time collaborators of Aaron Turner, has metamorphosed into a powerhouse of shimmering Italo-disco synths and industrial ear-jammage, merging psychedelic roots with hypnotic electronics. Their recent groovage leans into the experimental, infusing relentless thumps with expansive, glittering panoramas.

18/01/2025

Join us January 24–25 at the Technische Universität Berlin for DC25, a free conference featuring presentations and panel discussions.
› ctm-festival.de/festival-2025/programme/theory/dancecult-dc25-conference

Dive into conversations about the documentation, preservation, and archiving of electronic music and dance cultures—from their global evolution to the challenges of keeping their cultural heritage alive. Topics include DJing, club culture, festivals, and the untold stories of marginalized voices in these vibrant communities. All sessions will be streamed live.

14/01/2025

With less than two weeks left, we’re bringing you some heavy-hitting final music confirmations for CTM Festival 2025, along with our free daytime Discourse program, immersive spatial sound workshops and concerts thanks to our partnership with d&b audiotechnik: ctm-festival.de/news/ctm-2025-final-programme-announcement

For those who aren’t in town, you can tune in to our Refuge Worldwide festival broadcasts for a glimpse of CTM 2025’s sonic palette. We’re looking forward to seeing you from January 24th—February 2nd 🛢️🔥

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀:
Zola Jesus ‣ Xiu Xiu ‣ Bendik Giske ‣ Dadabots ‣ softchaos b2b River Moon ‣ Venus X Machina ‣ ZULI ‣ Obese.dogma777 ‣ Anthem ‣ Europa ‣ Rizla Ops ‣ Yungfya ‣ DJ BOTOX ‣ O***m Hum

𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 + 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗱&𝗯 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲:
Andrew Rahman ‣ Bella Comsom ‣ Eve Aboulkheir ‣ Ralf Zuleeg & Brigitta Muntendorf ‣ Younger Sibling

𝗥𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗴𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘅 𝗖𝗧𝗠 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁𝘀:
Abdullah Miniawy ‣ Adela Mede ‣ Marie Davidson ‣ Marta Forsberg & Nindya Nareswari ‣ ANTCONSTANTINO ‣ Deize Tigrona ‣ Dis Fig ‣ gyrofield ‣ Lénok, Grinderteeth & Synthtati ‣ Murderpact ‣ rEmPiT g0dDe$$ & LnhD ‣

𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺:
Dadabots ‣ Michael Salu & James Ginzburg ‣ Beth Coleman ‣ Daniela Huerta ‣ Maurice Jones ‣ Pía Baltazar ‣ Romi Morrison ‣ Sahar Homami ‣ Clara Herrmann ‣ William Russell ‣ meLê yamomo ‣ ganavya with Sailesh ‣ Adela Mede, Marta Forsberg & Nindya Nareswari with Ján Solčáni ‣ softchaos

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Founded in 1999, CTM – Festival for Adventurous Music and Art is a leading international festival dedicated to leftfield pop, contemporary electronic and experimental music.

Presented under a yearly theme, each edition tests the current possibilities and limits of music, and supports a wide range of artists working in the context of music and sound cultures.

The festival’s 10-day programme opens up room for unusual experiences. Cutting across genres, scenes, and disciplines, it couples first-hand experience with critical reflection, exchange, and learning.

CTM Festival gives space to a multitude of voices and perspectives. It covers a wide range of sonic and music practices, and of interdisciplinary projects that combine music, performance and visual arts with digital culture, critical theory and new technologies.