Much has been written on the immense influence India's Gita Sarabhai had on John Cage, but far less on what Gita took away from her studies with Cage on Western music. Rahila Haque portraits this extraordinary musical mind in the latest CTM Magazine:
Tanzanian legend Rehema Tajiri joins her daughter Queen Asher, rising singeli producer with plenty of sonic chops of her own, for an uplifting CTM x HÖR set:
We are ready to welcome you to CTM Cyberia! Explore the virtual festival environment and exhibition as avatars, watch archived CTM 2021 performances, and interact with each other via chat and throwing emoji bombs! Learn more via ›
We're thrilled to announce that CTM Cyberia is finally locked and (down)loaded! The digital, dizzying exhibition space will run from February 13th until March 14th, giving you plenty of time to wander its erratic and enticing architecture. Learn more via:
Learn to create visuals with coding and flexible systems using web-based video synthesizer Hydra! The free Nusasonic workshop is led by Olivia Jack and offers an introduction to creative coding and gives insight to the process of writing code. More via ›
𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐍 𝐎))) 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧 (初心) 𝐃𝐮𝐨, 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭: 𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐢 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞
𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭. 𝟏𝟑 + 𝟏𝟒, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑, 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧
SUNN O))) return to Berlin for the first time in years in their original core, raw form:
Canadian sound artist
@crys_cole
(📷) and Australian polymath
@orenambarchi
are part of UK-based imprint and publisher
@touchmusic
its 40 year anniversary with a specially conceived concert at CTM 2022 on 31 January! Get tickets and learn more via ›
The documentary Sisters with Transistors is the untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, re-markable composers who embraced machines & their liberating technologies. It will be streamed on demand at CTM 2021! Learn more via ›
We are pleased to announce the Berlin debut of
@hollyherndon
’s new AI AV choral ensemble show PROTO at
@volksbuehne
on June 14! The new performance will follow the release of her highly-anticipated third LP, PROTO (set for release on May 10 on
@4ad_official
). 📸: Boris Camaca
Today we stand with Berlin's club community as they prepare to disrupt a march by Germany's far-right party, AfD. Take the streets and join some of the counter-protests which are held today! ✊ Photo credit: Glänzende Demonstration
Tomorrow we open the virtual gates to CTM Cyberia! The festival environment and exhibition hosts experiences from Gabber Modus Operandi,
@peaches
&
@pvssykrew
,
@lucasdguttierez
&
@robertlippok
, and several new commissioned works. Learn more via ›
The world premiere of James Ferraro's stage-based "Plague" is an infernal vision of our socially networked, hypercapitalist times, hinting at the coming automation of human destructiveness:
#ctm2018
#transmediale
.
@linndaquebrada
is headlining our CTM 2019 opening concert! 🔥🔥🔥 Vibrant and unapologetic femme energy is what
@HAU123
will be filled with on 27 January. More info and RSVP via
#CTM20YRS
#Persistence
Photo: Vivi Bacco
.
@iamsherelle
can be relied on to deliver fast-paced club heaters across a spectrum of footwork, jungle, and drum & bass. Best believe the DJ and radio presenter will tear down Panorama Bar at CTM Festival 2020 🤯
#CTM2020
#Liminal
We are devastated by the news of Sophie's passing. Her musical impact cannot be measured, and her future was unbelievably bright. Our thoughts are with her family, her friends, and everyone who like us is grieving today. It's okay to cry.
Founder of Sunn O))) and guitarist
@IdeologicOrgan
and composer and musician Kali Malone interact with the »Modular Organ System« at CTM 2022! The sound installation oscillates between a sculpture, performance, and active listening in space. More via ›
We are proud to present the return of Sun O))) to Berlin! In support of Life Metal, their first studio album in four years, two live performances will descend on
@Festsaal
Kreuzberg and a listening session at
@Berghain
's Säule. All info via 💥
Check our first programme announcement for the hybrid edition of CTM Festival 2022! Confirmed artists and projects are deli girls, Machine Girl, Kali Malone &
@IdeologicOrgan
,
@LoJamMusic
,
@GodFullEffect
, Jennifer Walton and more. Learn more via ›
Opening this Thursday 17.5., the sound installation DUST by Katarzyna Krakowiak will send vocals and abstract sounds crashing through the stunning
@BerghainHalle
, turning it into a massive sounding structure. More info:
📸 Roman März
Remember walking through the halls of our annual exhibition at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien? This year you can roam the halls of CTM Cyberia for our exhibition and choose your own avatar whilst doing so until 14 March! Learn more via ›
Young people’s introduction to club culture is a flattened version—from TikTok techno tutorials and Pinterest clubwear lists to ‘How To Get Into Berghain’ guides. As these 18-25 year olds discover this counterculture, what's their take?
Watch:
Hovering over virtual gardens during sunset whilst
@zulimusic
is providing the most atmospheric DJ-set at
@ClubMatryoshka
, life on planet Alpha Lebbeus is good 🌾
We have officially launched browser based music software Apotome! It is launched through a string of activities including a presentation, panel discussion, and performances by
@deena0deena
,
@EnyangHa
,
@RailtonLucy
, Nene H,
@slikback
, and more. More via ›
Part 1 of our Transformation edition is a wrap! Thanks to all artists, contributors, partners, and viewers that created a fantastic online festival atmosphere. The A/V recordings will be published soon, and don’t forget to join us for CTM Cyberia on 13 February!
US duo
@machin3gir1
bring a hyperactive blend of gabber-fried metal, hardcore-infused techno, and juked-up jungle for our multi-floor Club Night at RSO:
We’ve been reminded of an article created years ago for the CTM magazine that, through the case study of Berlin techno, clearly shows how music and historical narratives are co-opted and re-written by powerful, privileged – and often white – voices:
We are beyond excited to announce CTM 2021 part two with a sound exhibition and multiple performances running from 3 – 12 September in Berlin ✌️ Featuring works by
@MoM_official
,
@stine_ja
,
@jessicaekomane
,
@pi_marcin
, and many more. Learn more via ›
One year ago, the recording session of ''Life Metal'' by Sunn O))) commenced. This photo shows Hildur Guðnadóttir, Greg Anderson, Albini, TOS, and Stephan O'Malley all together in the studio. 📸: Josh Ford
› Tickets for their Berlin shows available via
Maryanne Amacher’s »GLIA« explores the potentialities of ears as they interface between the electronic and acoustic instrumentation. At CTM 2023, two posthumous performances will be realized:
Photo courtesy Blank Forms / The Maryanne Amacher Foundation
Available for the next three nights of our sold-out Berghain shows with SUNN O))) and Kali Malone—a limited-edition poster designed by Tetsunori Tarawaya!
First wave of artists for CTM Festival 2019 –
#Persistence
announced! Including Lotic, Actress, A Tribe Called Red, Gazelle Twin, Khyam Allami, Lucy Railton, Yves Tumor and more! Limited amount of Early Bird Festival Passes are available as of now via: 😄
The CTM Festival theme for 2021 is Transformation. If there is one thing the past year has shown, it is that the grotesque inequalities on this planet – whether social, ecological, or political – cannot be sustained.
› Read more about the theme via
Artist and researched
@KhyamAllami
giving a short introduction to transcultural generative microtonal tuning environment Apotome! Watch the live stream via:
We are saddened by the news of Peter Rehberg his passing. Three years older than CTM Festival, his independent record label
@EditionsMego
has served as a continuous source of inspiration for CTM's own explorations of vanguard music since its inception in the summer of 1998.
Dive into a virtual world inspired by the unconventional works of architect Lebbeus Woods—a deconstructive and dystopic digital landscape filled with fragments, fissures, and nature rebuilt at
@ClubMatryoshka
x CTM on August 15!
› Register for free via
Announcing CTM 2024 - Sustain!
From 26 January-4 February 2024, we'll celebrate our silver 25 year anniversary at Berghain, silent green, radialsystem, and other Berlin venues:
Uganda's Afrorack finds fascination with the mechanics of electronics, birthing projects in sound art, electronics, radio, space, music, visuals, renewable energy, and kinetic sculptures. He'll be joining CTM 2023 as part of the Afropollination project:
We kick off the first day of CTM Festival 2021 with our Discourse series of talks, panels, lecture-performances today, with two thematic modules! Tune in to the live streams starting at 6 pm CET via (Image: Still by AM Kanngieser and Zoe Todd)
Learn how to build simple instruments from a basic synthesizer to a sampler using visual programming language Pure Data! The Nusasonic workshop is led by artist and musician Bani Haykal (
@fdbckfdfwd
) and you can pre-register until 24 May. Learn more via ›
Join us tonight for the opening of the massive light/sound installation SKALAR by Christopher Bauder and
@kangding_ray
—a fully immersive otherworldly experience:
#ctm2018
#turmoil
#light
"Tuning is one of the most fundamental elements of music-making, yet it is also one of the least understood."
@pitchfork
features
@KhyamAllami
on challenging the Western biases of music production software.
Join us and show support at the Stand with Ukraine fundraiser concert: Hildur Guðnadóttir's Chernobyl live Berlin on 7 May! All proceeds will be donated to various charities providing humanitarian aid to Ukraine. Donate or get tickets via ›
We stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine in the face of the horrendous attacks on the country’s independence and right for self-determination, that are not only an attack on Ukraine, but on the very attempt to build a peaceful and democratic Europe. 1/3
The music of synthesizer pioneer Wendy Carlos, performed on machine concepts created by fellow trailblazer Daphne Oram is only one aspect of these two beautiful films by Tom Richards and Frances Scott. Watch these beautiful works here:
Watch a short introduction of Apotome by
@KhyamAllami
📹 He introduces you to the transcultural browser-based generative music environment for microtonal tunings which was launched at CTM 2021. The full tutorial is available via ›
Our sister festival
@transmediale
has confirmed more artists and collectives for its upcoming exhibition »abandon all hope ye who enter here« 🌅 The exhibition will be on view at
@AdK_Berlin
from 26 January till 18 February, 2022! Learn more via ›
Sunn O))) is bound to release a second album in 2019 titled ''Pyroclasts'' coming out October 25 via
@southernlordeu
. We are proud to present the return of Sunn O))) to Berlin with two special live concerts after 5 years!
› More info and tickets via
Gabber Modus Operandi join forces with animator Rimbawan Gerilya and choreographer Siko Setyanto for a 45 minute-long 3D animation video mixtape at CTM Festival 2021. Learn more about the experience via ›
Our first festival announcement is out! We kick-off CTM 2021 with a series of A2A Transmission artist workshops in mid-Dec, plus a series of speculative exercises on the Transformation theme mid-Jan. Festival core dates are 19-31 January 2021. More info ›
We head off into CTM Festival 2021's first weekend! We continue with the Research Networking Day followed by a 6-hour long virtual sci-fi rave in Minecraft created together with
@ClubMatryoshka
. The live stream starts at 12:00 am CET via ›
Explore CTM Cyberia now as its virtual doors close in 10 days! The online environment throws festival goers into a landscape of Transformation and a disorienting environment of mercurial visuals and erratic sounds. Enter the digital playground via ›
The virtual gates to »Fill the Whole« by
@peaches
&
@pvssykrew
are opened as part of CTM Cyberia! The transformative live gaming experience, traverses sensations, emotions, material, and ethereal synergies. Enter the gaming experience via ›
Apply for a new
@transmediale
residency programme! The call launches 3 digital residencies for international artists whose work explores digital counter-archives and the role of technology in opening up alternative histories, and memories. Learn more ›
In CTM Magazine, music journalists Amanda Cavalcanti and
@felipemaia
tell the not so untold history of Latin American women in early electronic music. The article is available in English, Spanish, and Portugese. Read it now via ›
To help people affected by the earthquake and tsunami in Sulawesi, Indonesia, we collectively set up a fundraiser in Berlin. Your support is needed and greatly appreciated, all information to be found in the event: 🇮🇩
We’re proud to partner with
@RefugeWorldwide
for another year to bring you daily radio shows with festival artists, a DJ workshop hosted by
@happynewtears
, and a dedicated dancefloor:
Performative sound installation »Modular Organ System« offers a unique and continuously morphing sonic terrain at CTM 2022! The work by Phillip Sollmann and Konrad Sprenger features interventions by a range of artists. Learn more via ›
Drone titans Sunn O))) will return to Berlin for two special live performances with support by innovative guitarist Caspar Brötzmann and yet another on point artwork design by Marius from VOJD! 👌🏽
((((((((((((((((( O ))))))))))))))))))
More info via →
Paul Purgas details his journey to the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad in search of a lost
@moogmusicinc
synthesizer devised by Bob Moog specifically for India, but subsequently lost as the studio closed its doors:
Mark Fell presents Symmetry for Five at CTM 2021! The work sees the joint effort of guitarist & composer Jim O’Rourke, musician Rian Treanor, electronics & vocal performer Petronn Sphene & sound improviser and instrument builder Limpe Fuchs. More via ›
Between 1981 and 1989 a small circle of musicians published electronic pop LPs in the GDR. They amount to a branch on the evolutionary tree of electronic music that has almost been forgotten. Read the full piece in CTM Magazine via ›
.
@deena0deena
gathered her favorite Arabic songs, matching these with Arabic scales available in Apotome to achieve the tonalities and improvisations that would »sound as Arab as possible.« Watch the CTM 2021 live stream via:
In a couple of weeks SET X CTM will kick off in Iran! The beautiful Azadi concert hall will be the main venue which will mostly reside audio and visual performances for instance by Monolake, Sote and Tarik Barri & 9T Antiope and Rainer Kohlberger.
Apply to join a CTM 2021 Rethinking Music Ecosystems discussion by New York theorist, writer & musician DeForrest Brown, Jr. (
@dfnbrown1
) on the necessity for a rational understanding of equity and diversity in the music industry. Learn more via ›
We are pumped to add a new wave of acts to the CTM Festival 2020 programme! Including performances by Andy Stott, Teto Preto, emptyset, Lafawndah, MC Yallah & Debmaster, and much more. Discover them all via 🤯
#CTM2020
#Liminal
Inside the massive Kraftwerk Berlin, the stunning large-scale art installation "SKALAR" comes to life at CTM 2018 featuring live performances from light artist Christopher Bauder and musician & composer
@kangding_ray
:
#turmoil
#art
#techno
We are still daydreaming about last night's
@ClubMatryoshka
x CTM 2021 🤯 On Thursday, Club Matryoshka's co-founder
@similarobjects
participates in an
@Ableton
panel and he is featured in the latest article of CTM Magazine and also. Read it now ›
Experimental artist, DJ, and producer
@aladamusic
from Rio de Janeiro who now resides in Berlin performs in Berghain at CTM 2022 on 27 May! Alada’s tracks cover a range of unlikely rhythms and are highly inspired by the Afrofuturism movement. More via ›
Join Ioana Vreme Moser for our first 2023 Hacklab as she dives into the mineral realms of computer hardware and gives a glimpse into fluidic forms that reimagine the morphology of our electronic machines:
Listen to a special voice message recorded by
@maryannehobbs
in anticipation of her DJ set within the virtual
@ClubMatryoshka
x CTM 2021 Minecraft rave tomorrow 🎧
Architect
@dormantyouth
is a master of constructing blisteringly aggressive, BPM-climbing dance sets of drill, footwork, techno, hip-hop and other diverse club sounds:
Inspired by his tribe’s traditional rituals,
@slikback
’s work is made entirely on Apotome. Creating distorted vocals and chants, he dips himself into trance states and purging. Watch the CTM 2021 live stream via: