CTM Festival

10/07/2024

Tomorrow—join us at Panke for the CTM x DISK Agency Fam Jam | Takkak Takkak (Album Release) + Gabber Modus Operandi + popon (DJ)! Tickets: ctm.stager.co/web/tickets/111420249

CTM and DISK Agency are celebrating the new self-titled release from Takkak Takkak on Nyege Tapes, fusing low-end club sounds with wiry Asian traditional patterns and howling vocals, along with mutant noisenik sound artist popon and the explosive combination of gabber, digital hardcore, punk, and noise with uniquely Indonesian styles that is Gabber Modus Operandi's signature.

02/07/2024

𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐄+ 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒/𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬

The European Union-funded SHAPE platform for innovative music and audiovisual art is announcing its 2024/2025 list of artists. The artist selection places a number of sound artists alongside musical acts that range from club music and forward-thinking media art to experiments with traditional music and free improvisation.

The third year of SHAPE+ will continue its focus on collaborative residencies and one-off performances simultaneously, with such updates as three new member festivals - Polja in Serbia, Rewire in The Netherlands and Full Of Lava in Switzerland - and a syndicated network of partner radio stations that spans 13 countries.

The 2024/2025 artist list of SHAPE+ will begin its year of activities on July 15, and the activity period will last until July 14, 2025. Bringing together 54 artists, it is the largest SHAPE+ artist list yet, and it is the result of the platform’s annual open call in combination with curatorial propositions from each member festival.

More info: shapeplatform.eu/2024/shape-announces-2024-2025-roster-of-artists/

19/06/2024

𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 | 𝗖𝗧𝗠 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀
𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: August 10th, 2024
Apply + full details: ctm-festival.de/news/ctm-2025-internships

We’re gearing up for our 26th festival edition, running January 24th – February 2nd 2025, and we’re looking for several interns to help us realize its conception ✨

18/06/2024

Kali Malone presents All Life Long
Following a performance at CTM 2024, Kali Malone returns for two dates to present a full live concert version of her album 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨 for pipe organ, choir, and brass quintet. The music of 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨 simmers in an ever-shifting tension between repetition and variation. The pieces for brass, organ, and voice provide nearly continuous timbral fluctuation even as thematic material reiterates, their internal framework of fractal pattern permutations has the paradoxical effect of creating anticipated keystone moments of dramatic reverie and lulling the listener into believing in an illusory endlessness.

Sounding the massive organ in Berlin’s iconic Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche with additional organ accompaniment by Stephen O’Malley, Malone will be joined by Macadam Ensemble vocal quartet, and a five-piece microtonal brass ensemble consisting of Elena Kakaliagou, Johannes Lauer, Magnus Schriefl, Rike Huy, and Weston Olencki.

12/06/2024

𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗨𝗸𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀 | 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝘆 𝟮𝟭 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰
› Apply + full details: ctm-festival.de/news/shape-call-for-ukrainian-interns

The SHAPE platform for innovative music and audiovisual art has announced an open call specifically for interns from Ukraine, who will be invited to help with the preparation of a member festival of their choice, including CTM. The internship is open to Ukrainians currently residing in Ukraine, and also those who have left the country due to the full-scale invasion.

10/06/2024

CTM returns for a second year to collaborate with La Biennale di Venezia! Tickets: ctm-festival.de/activities/concerts-and-club-nights/event-detail/ctm-venice-biennale

Celebrated for his intricate and textural sound stratifications, Atlanta-based composer and sound designer Richard Devine will deliver a captivating live performance featuring multichannel diffusion, scratchy and layered sounds weaving a rich tapestry of sonic textures.

Visionary artist and composer Pan Daijing will transform Pavilion 30 in Forte Marghera into a site-specific, immersive noise environment. Known for her ability to manipulate space and sound, Daijing’s atmospheric installations resonate deeply with the unique acoustics and architecture of each location, offering a voidic sensory journey.

Danish composer SØS Gunver Ryberg explores the liminal realms of synthesis along the edges of perception, weaving together complex electronic compositions that push the boundaries of traditional soundscapes. Join her on a deep dive into the unexplored territories of sonics.

30/05/2024

CTM x DISK Agency Fam Jam | Takkak Takkak (Album Release) + Gabber Modus Operandi + popon (DJ)
𝙏𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙩𝙨: ctm.stager.co/web/tickets/111420249

Takkak Takkak is a new duo project by Berlin-based Japanese producer Shigeru Ishihara and Vilnius-based Indonesian junk multi-instrumentalist J. Mo’ong Santoso Pribadi fusing low-end club sounds with wiry Asian traditional patterns and howling vocals. Performing their namesake album released 7 June on Nyege Nyege Tapes, Takkak Takkak navigate a cross-continental palette with skill and humor.

GGabber Modus Operandi(the duo of Kasimyn and Ican Harem) fuse the challenging sounds of gabber, digital hardcore, punk, and noise with a number of uniquely Indonesian sounds such as jathilan, dangdut koplo, and funkot.

Japanese sound artist and improviser popon binds the evening together with DJ sets influenced by 80s Japanese DIY punk, children's music, and various music coming out of Bristol.

10/05/2024

VMO Violent Magic Orchestra | »𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿 𝗢𝗳 𝗫𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘅«
𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟲𝘁𝗵, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 | Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
Tickets: ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/bestseatselect?eventId=21926&el=true

Osaka-based VMO a.k.a Violent Magic Orchestra will perform their new album »Death Rave« at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. After touring the world to present their A/V moshpit-live-show, they unveil a milestone in the Japanese hardcore new rave scene with »Death Rave«, fusing the aesthetics of black metal with the euphoria and rush of hardcore and gabber.

Performance installation »Star Of Xanax« by artists Natalie Assmann, Maximilian Prag and Anna Schall, have invited dancer DaDa JV and music producer IDKLANG. Together they embark on a journey into the unknown, a sci-fi fusion of black metal, gabber, cyberpunk, performance art and techno.

06/05/2024

Kim Gordon + Gudrun Gut
Tickets: disk.stager.co/web/tickets/111407598

Multidisciplinary artist and former Sonic Youth bass player Kim Gordon will perform in Berlin in support of her second solo LP 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦, brilliantly current in its grinding approximation of capitalist horrors, ransacking of social media bleakness, and playful evisceration of toxic masculinity.

Opening for Gordon is Gudrun Gut, the German subcultural icon who rose to prominence in ‘80s Berlin as part of Mania D, Matador, Malaria!, and Einstürzende Neubauten. As a key figure in Berlin’s underground and longtime colleague and friend of Gordon’s, Gut still casts an aura of mechanized rhythms and frozen emotional palettes, but decades of improvisation and collaboration have deepened her sense of composition and melody beyond easy genre categorization.

24/04/2024

𝙊𝙪𝙩 𝙉𝙤𝙬—𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘢 𝘌𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘦𝘴 / Α​ν​τ​η​χ​ή​σ​ε​ι​ς assembles five tracks and one installation from the Chronotopia Echoes / Αντηχήσεις artistic lab.

› Available here: ctm-editions.bandcamp.com/album/chronotopia-echoes

Avoiding a linear perspective that constructs time as an indication of progress, the compilation adopts and explores cyclical and spiraling ideas of history and time, narrative folds, parallel cultural transmissions, and temporal collapses where past and present fall into each other to arrive at a new dialogue.

From 2020–2021, the lab engaged six sound artists and composers. These artists were invited to interact with the vast archives of KSYME—the Contemporary Music Research Center in Athens—with the aim of creating new works. Under the guidance of sound and media artist Anke Eckardt and Athens-based artist and educator Akis Sinos, the artists Alyssa Moxley, Gaspar Cohen, Giulia Vismara, Max Eilbacher, Savvas Metaxas, and Sofia Eleni Xezonaki imagined and sought possibilities of reworking archived materials. The resulting compositions premiered at the Athens & Epidaurus Festival in October 2021, and were then reworked for this release.

With the exception of Sofia Eleni Xezonaki who created a sculptural work, these pieces have been assembled into this album, detailed further in a companion booklet with texts by the artists, their mentors, and a portrait of KSYME from its founding in 1979 to the present by artist and educator Ioannis Kotsonis.

𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘢 𝘌𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘦𝘴 / Αντηχήσεις 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘢, 𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘊𝘛𝘔 𝘍𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘎𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦-𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵 𝘈𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘴𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤, 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦, 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘢 𝘳𝘦-𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘳𝘦-𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴, 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢-𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩, 𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴. 𝘊𝘰-𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘊𝘛𝘔 𝘍𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭, 𝘎𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦-𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵 𝘈𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯, 𝘈𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘴 & 𝘌𝘱𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘶𝘴 𝘍𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭, 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘒𝘚𝘠𝘔𝘌/𝘊𝘔𝘙𝘊.

16/04/2024

Kim Gordon | gudrun gut
𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟲, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 | Festsaal Kreuzberg
› 𝙏𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙩𝙨: disk.stager.co/web/tickets/111407598

Musician, visual artist, and founding member of Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon will appear in Berlin to support her second solo LP 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦, brilliantly current in its grinding approximation of capitalist horrors, ransacking of social media bleakness, and playful evisceration of toxic masculinity. Released by Matador, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 pulses with damaged, blown out dub and trap constructions playing the foil to Gordon’s intuitive word collages and hooky mantras that conjure communication, commercial sublimation and sensory overload.

𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘳𝘣𝘣 radioeins.

07/03/2024

Somerset House Studios, Goethe-Institut London and CTM Festival have partnered on a three-month residency. From February 2024, Felicia Chen, aka Dis Fig joined the community.

› Full details: ctm-festival.de/activities/goethe-institut-x-somerset-house-studios-x-ctm

With a practice which explores cinematic sonic expressions imbued with weighty emotional intensity, she’ll be joined in this journey by drummer and producer Sam Jones, taking his influences from jazz, grime and dub to dismantle rhythms and create new skeletal experimentations within the performance. Together, Chen and Jones will exercise their individual acrobatics in conversation with one another, speaking their truths in tandem.

This residency supports the presentation of a new work commissioned for Assembly, Somerset House Studios’ experimental sound, music and performance series. Following its premiere at Assembly, this new work by Dis Fig will travel to CTM Festival in 2025, the material forming the basis of an upcoming full-length release.

05/03/2024

OPEN CALL— SHAPE platform for innovative music and audiovisual art, co-funded by the European Union, announces a new open call for artist submissions for its next working period: July 15, 2024 – July 14, 2025

Apply here: shapeplatform.eu/2024/shape-platform-announces-2024-2025-open-call-for-artists

Deadline: March 31, 2024 23:59 CET

SHAPE+ aims to boost the careers of European artists through collaborative residencies, commissioned artworks and performances. SHAPE+ artists will be invited to festivals and venues in Europe and beyond, as well as networking and career development events. Combining an open call and a curatorial selection, the participating festivals and venues select a roster of artists to support each year.

The artists chosen for SHAPE+ should be committed to greener forms of travel when such choice is possible, and are expected to participate in collaborative residencies and one-off performances and presentations as well as publicity activities, educational events and artist meet-ups.

29/02/2024

A selection of sets from CTM 2024’s RSO club night are now online—in this highlight join Femme Bass Mafia - FBM founder Dangermami for a skittery jacked and jammed-out live mix sure to set your shoes shuffling 🎧

Saturday 3 February 2024 CTM 2024 – Sustain RSO.Berlin Helping shape the rising selectors of Berlin’s dance scene. With some of the most percussively powerful picks behind the booth, Dangermami ensur

27/02/2024

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of CTM Festival, we’re proud to once more collaborate with emerging independent clothing and accessory label Transe Paris for the Transe Paris x CTM 2024 Sustain Collection:
ctm-festival.de/activities/transe-paris-x-ctm/transe-paris-x-ctm-2024

Inspired by the visuals of CTM 2024's theme »Sustain« as designed by VOJD, this capsule collection brings the squirming pulse of the club to your body. Transparent tops with creative ties and embroidered »Sustain« logos, satin shorts in both long and b***y styles, inky bodysuits, and of course panties and underwear capture the writhing essence of these otherworldly visuals on wearable canvases.

07/02/2024

CTM 2024 is a wrap. We’d like to give a huge thank you to each and every one of those who came by to share, participate, contribute, and dance together. Thank you to all the artists, speakers and participants who were and have been part of the festival—your work is why we keep doing what we do. Big thanks as well to all of our partners, funders, and colleagues who have supported CTM, including our sister festival transmediale, for 25 years of partnership and friendship. We look forward to seeing you next year.

31/01/2024

What is deafness if not another mode of perception? This is a central topic in the current work of artist, theorist and maker Marco Donnarumma. At CTM 2024, Donnarumma will present several inputs from his long term-project I Am Your Body, where he investigates deafness, sound, and (artificial) intelligence through participatory research driven by d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing people.

Ahead of his appearance at the festival, he shares how he became personally entangled in the project, its themes, and the d/Deaf community. Crucial to his current work is exploring the potential of d/Deaf corporeal prehension to open up new sensory horizons for music and performance – horizons currently underexplored in a world dominated by audism and oralism.

› Read: ctm-festival.de/magazine/listening-through-deafness
› More info: ctm-festival.de/festival-2024/programme/features/i-am-your-body

12/01/2024

CTM Festival 2024 - Sustain's Club lineups are complete—joining at CTM Festival x OXI will be sludgetrance avenging angel Swan Meat, harsh break chaos from Berlin-via-Cairo bass distortionist Assyouti, and rbf.linh’s dark and unpolished dance floor sounds layered with her signature punk vocals. Opening OXI’s second floor, Cressida’s sound fuses rhythmic, dystopian force of techno with UK hardcore. Lamsi brings a great passion to their selections, from hip-hop to house and garage. Scratcha DVA aka Scratchclart appears with MC Toya Delazy to tell a bass-heavy story connecting Berlin to London, Durban, and Cape Town. The SHAPE+ supported Oldyungmayn transects a lexicon of 90s era rave, sharpened sound design, and a wide spectrum of music from fellow Middle Eastern producers. Jungle, dubstep and grime are heavily reflected in Soft Break’s sets, full of unexpected twists and turns.

For CTM Festival x RSO's main floor, Anastasia Kristensen blends off-grid electronics into kaleidoscopic, electrifying sets. Berlin’s Femme Bass Mafia will take over the Summe Floor; represented by HIỀN ĐIÊN, MSJY, PONYO, and Dangermami. A key figure in the UK’s bass and club scene, SHERELLE delivers a spectrum of footwork, jungle, and drum & bass. The floor is rounded out with Flore, who digs into Jamaican sound systems, breaks, drum, and bass.

Our Berghain program is joined by NYEGE NYEGE regulars Golden Girl$$$, Tanzanian dance queens turned musicians rolling out min. 200bpm singeli blazers. A CTM world premiere channeled on stage by Virgen María and Naive Supreme, »PTSD« blends hardcore, ambient, and ASMR elements into a reflection on the trauma and brought on by su***de. Mars Morningstar (an alias of Quest?onmarc) levitates through the realms of post-punk, grindcore, blackened experimental and other sonic oddities. Moneyama takes part in exploring and deconstructing the narrative of African and diasporic artist communities with healthy doses of UK garage. Raji Rags will stitch together a closing set of seamlessly blended low-end genres, with detours into breakneck speeds.

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11/01/2024

At CTM Festival 2024 - Sustain, Goethe-Institut's »Studio Quantum« will present a series of exploratory talks and performances around quantum technologies and music in Berlin’s Radialsystem on 2nd of February 2024.

Prof. Oliver Benson (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) will kickstart the event with an introduction to quantum computing, followed by a discussion with Prof. Gesche Joost (Universität der Künste Berlin) on the intersection of quantum technologies and creativity. Professor Eduardo Miranda (ICCMR, University of Plymouth) and his colleagues will share their contribution to this important dialogue by presenting the technology behind the sound pieces performed at the festival, giving insights into how quantum technologies inspire and inform creative practices. Renowned multidisciplinary artist Edy Fung will perform a work created during her time as a Studio Quantum Artist-in-Residence in collaboration with musician and composer Muiredach O’Riain and share her thoughts on the connection of quantum technology and music in an open discussion format following the event.

Concluding the event will be a special performance by Miranda who will return to the stage for a concert of Quantum Computer Music showcasing pioneering systems and performances developed by his team at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR), Plymouth, UK. For the performance, a state-of-the-art quantum computer, developed by IQM, will be used to run generative music algorithms and to synthesize sounds. Performers will control the quantum computer based in Finland with gestures, brain signals and live coding through the Internet. Vintage analog synthesizers in Brazil will produce sounds transmitted to Berlin in real-time.

› Full details: ctm-festival.de/festival-2024/programme/schedule/event/quantum-computing-sound

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘊𝘛𝘔, 𝘎𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦-𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵, 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰 𝘘𝘶𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘡𝘦𝘪𝘵𝘨𝘦𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘐𝘳𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 24, 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘐𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘎𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺.

10/01/2024

What is deafness if not another mode of perception? An exacting and sinuous ritual of sensory reorganization, Marco Donnarumma’s »Ex Silens« delves into the corporeal knowledge hiding at the edges of experience. Here, cochlear implants, AI hearing algorithms, and amplifiers are extracted from their capitalist chain of production and subverted to create prostheses with their own agencies. Radically intimate, the prostheses are organs of sharing: they amplify sounds from the performer’s muscle, heartbeat, and blood flow, diffuse vibrations through the bodies of audience and performer, and in doing so, resonate sensible forms of being.

Ex Silens is part of the series 𝘐 𝘈𝘮 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘉𝘰𝘥𝘺 (2022-present), a project investigating deafness, sound, and (artificial) intelligence through participatory research driven by d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing people. Expanding on this performance work, Donnarumma will also present the short film 𝘕𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘢 before the second performance at radialsystem, followed by a short talk and discussion.

› Full details and tickets: ctm-festival.de/festival-2024/programme/artists/m/marco-donnarumma

03/01/2024

Through hyper-detailed soundscape compositions, combined with 360 videography, kinetic seating, and olfactory effects, »Oceanic Refractions« creates an unforgettable sensorial experience. Appearing at CTM and transmediale 2024, the work is an immersive installation featuring testimonies of Fijian, i-Kiribati and Papua New Guinean elders on kinship, self-determination and care in the face of global ecocide. Along with reflections from these teachers, artists, fisherpeople, grandparents and chiefs, we hear field recordings of the reefs of Fiji, the oceans and mangroves of Kiribati, and the shorelines of Papua New Guinea’s Duke of York Islands.

The result of several years of research and talanoa (dialogue) with Indigenous leaders, scholars, artists and advocates from Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, the Marshall Islands and Nauru, the work is led and produced by artists AM Kanngieser and Mere Nailatikau as they work with sound artist KMRU, filmmakers Laisiasa Dave Lavaki and Tumeli Tuqota, olfactory designer Smell Art, design and fabrication studio Space Forms and projection specialist Frame Works. Moved by listening and silence, the work offers audiences rare insights into the environmental relations sustaining Oceania’s many worlds.

› Full details: ctm-festival.de/festival-2024/programme/exhibition/oceanic-refractions

21/12/2023

A technological leap that will make current computation and AI systems look obsolete? Tapping into the properties and laws of quantum mechanics, the nascent field of quantum computing promises just that. Eduardo Reck Miranda, composer and pioneer in the field of AI and music, gives a brief overview of the history of computing and sound that lead to this new leap, and adds examples of his own music practice with quantum computing.
› Read the full essay: ctm-festival.de/magazine/quantum-computer-music-what-the-heck

12/12/2023

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗧𝗠 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 - 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲!
From January 26 to February 4, 2024, the festival will take place at outstanding venues of Berlin's cultural and nightlife scene, such as Berghain / Panorama Bar, Radialsystem, OXI, silent green, RSOberlin, and Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz.

Our 2024 programming continues with:
40Hurtz & Hazey Haze (IE), Aldana Duoraan & HMOT (INT), ale hop & Laura Robles with Natisa Exocé Kasongo (INT) – »Agua Dulce«, EPROM (US) pres »Syntheism« live, Eduardo Reck Miranda (BR/UK), Felicia Atkinson with Jules Reidy and crys cole (INT) – »Thinking Through the Iceberg«, FITNESSS feat. LUNG (US), Golem Mecanique feat Thomas Bel (FR), Heith feat DECLINO (IT) pres »Inverted Vertigo« , HJirok (IR/DE), Jules Reidy (AU/DE), Julian Sartorius (CH) – »Locked Grooves«, Julian Sartorius & Rabih Beaini (INT), Kali Malone (US/SE) – »Organ«, Kampire (UG), KENYA20Hz (BR), »Last and First Men« by Neon Dance, Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman, narration by Tilda Swinton (INT), Mandidextrous (UK), NAH (US/BE) – »Totally Recalled« live AV, Ocrilim – solo and feat Tim Wyskida (US/DE), O Ghettão (PT), O***m Hum (DE), Lane Shi Otayonii (CN/US), Petra Hermanova (CZ/DE) – »In Death’s Eyes», Phillip Sollmann & Max Eilbacher (DE/US) pres »Kalkül der Form«, Riccardo La Foresta & James Ginzburg & (INT), RHR (BR), Sabiwa (TW/DE), SØS Gunver Ryberg & Sybil Montet (DK/FR) – »Weaving Fields«, Special Request (UK), Viikatory b2b Dagga (BY/VZ)

Our 2024 MusicMakers Hacklab fellows: Amanda Bennetts (AU/AT), Claudix Vanesix (INT), Dimitris Mertzos (GR), Gisou Golshani (IR/UK), Ivan Skoryna (UA), Josefina Maro (AR/DE), Tobi Pfeil (NO/DE), Valeriia Khazan (UA/DE), Qusay Awad (SY/DE), Zalán Szakács (NL)

A2A workshops with: [ #/tau] Boris Hegenbart (DE), Diana Azzuz (SY/UA), ELLLL (IE/DE), Enyang Urbiks (KR/DE), Poly Chain (UA), Rabih Beaini (LB/DE), Tarik Barri (NL)

Our schedule is out now as well to better facilitate your festival planning! Full details: ctm-festival.de/news/ctm-2024-second-programme-announcement

29/11/2023

Get an aural preview of what’s to come at CTM Festival 2024 - Sustain with the first in our 2024 Buy Music Club mixes! A curated selection featuring Anna von Hausswolff, FÖLLAKZOID, Ben Frost, Aisha Devi, Monolake and more, it’ll prep your mind and ears for the sounds of Sustain 🎧

› Listen in: https://www.buymusic.club/list/ctm-festival-ctm-2024-sustain

14/11/2023

Announcing our first artists for 2024! CTM Festival 2024 - Sustain, our 25th edition, will take place January 26 to February 4, 2024. Under the theme »Sustain,« CTM presents the current state of adventurous music, from pulsating dance floors to shared moments of artistic intimacy across Berlin venues such as Berghain / Panorama Bar, Radialsystem, OXI, RSOberlin, silent green and Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. Festival passes are now on sale, and new this year are Weekend Passes which cover four days over the first and second festival weekend, respectively.

CTM wouldn’t be the same without the countless shared experiences, inputs, and at times also friction, that we’ve experienced with the many voices connected to the festival, be it visitors, artists, partners, or collaborators. We hope to connect with as many faces old and new, remote and in Berlin, as possible this anniversary edition.

We launch our 2024 programming with:
Aisha Devi (INT), Anna von Hausswolff (SE), Backxwash (ZM/CA), Ben Frost feat. Greg Kubacki & Tarik Barri (INT), Divide and Dissolve (AU), DJ Fu***ff (NZ/DE), DJ MELL G & Poly Chain (DE/UA), E-Saggila (IQ/CA), El Kontessa (EG), Elvin Brandhi & DJ Scotch Egg (INT), FÖLLAKZOID (CL/MX), HiTech (US), Infinity Division (CA/DE), Jana (EG), Kim Ann Foxman (US), Malengo (DE), Manuka Honey b2b Safety Trance (INT) , Monolake (DE), Nikki Nair (US), NZE NZE (FR), ojoo (MA/BE), Osmium (Hildur Gudnadóttir, Rully Shabara, Sam Slater, James Ginzburg) (INT), Pisitakun (TH/DE) – »The Three Sound of Revolution« with Ariel William Orah (ID/DE), C B**g Sae (KR), Fatalism (GR/TH), Teya Logos (PH), Wanton Witch (INT), Sarj (US/DE), Skrillex b2b Jyoty (INT), Spekki Webu (NL), Yas Meen Selectress (EG)

CTM Radio Lab Winners:
Concepción Huerta & Fe Sexta (MX/EC) – »MAPS: Electronic Resonances Between Ecuador and Mexico«, User Syndrome (LB/UK) – »IRL IRL IRL IRL IRL IRL IRL IRL«

An Irish Focus throughout the program featuring:
Julia Louise KnifeFist (IE), Moundabout (IE), Gash Collective (IE) club night with Baptist Goth, Americhord, ELLLL, ALYXIS, Lolz, Eliza b2b Maeve O’Neill, presented with transmediale, One Leg One Eye (IE), Or:la (IE/UK), Shampain (IE)

A multisensory installation presented with transmediale:
»Oceanic Refractions« by Mere Nailatikau, AM Kanngieser, KMRU, Laisiasa Dave Lavaki, Tumeli Tuqota (INT)

Also updated is our Research Networking Day 2024 program, presented on Sunday February 4th. Leading up to and following the festival, CTM Magazine will feature articles and interviews delving into the festival program, along with texts from writers selected via open call:
Anandit Sachdev (IN), David Farrow (US), Masha Kashyna (UA), oxi peng (CN/DE), Sai Versailles & Sean Bautista (PH), Ulya Soley & Yelta Köm (TR/DE)

Anyone interested in supporting the 2024 festival edition is welcome to apply to volunteer via our website.

› Full details: ctm-festival.de/news/first-acts-announced-for-ctm-2024

13/11/2023

Suzanne Ciani + Marta de Pascalis
In collaboration with Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, synth pioneer Suzanne Ciani will appear together with Marta de Pascalis, who is supporting a brand-new release. Ciani is not only responsible for some of the greatest synthesizer music ever produced, but she often did it first, shaping and developing techniques that have been pored over for decades.

Marta De Pascalis’ sonic world acts as an uncanny translator that freezes and expands emotions, conveying them into unique soundscapes. Her solo works employ analogue, fm synthesis, and a tape-loop system, whereby she carves waveforms to shape cathartic sound bodies.

Passes now available: ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/seatmap?eventId=21367

09/11/2023

In celebration of their first live show and album in over a decade, CTM presents Khanate + Caspar Brötzman Bass Totem with a special performance of their new album 𝘛𝘰 𝘉𝘦 𝘊𝘳𝘶𝘦𝘭, out now on Sacred Bones Records. Comprised of James Plotkin, Stephen O’Malley, Alan Dubin and Tim Wyskida, Khanate is doom as merciless atmospheric pressure, as a blunt object to crack you over the skull with, slowly, repeatedly, and forever.

Tickets on sale now: disk.stager.co/web/tickets/111358043

08/11/2023

Our 2024 Research Networking Day program has been announced! Assembling nine students, scholars, artists and researchers from a variety of fields of study and approaches, they will present research touching on CTM Festival 2024 - Sustain's theme. Among a variety of topics and presentation methods, modules will explore how voice cloning tools create cultures of the paralinguistic in different ways, the blurred lines between body and instrument, sustainable closed captioning methods specific for sound and video art, Black sonic ecologies in Scotland, and a presentation on responsive and nurturing one-to-one workshops in the homes of dancers with Parkinson’s.

We’ll be highlighting our modules soon; in the meantime, discover the full details: ctm-festival.de/festival-2024/programme/theory/research-networking-day

07/11/2023

𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗧𝗠 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗩𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀 | Like every year, CTM Festival would not be possible without the support of our dedicated volunteers. We’d love for you to join us and help us to Sustain in 2024—apply now:
ctm-festival.de/festival-2024/open-calls/call-for-volunteers