We're happy to share some first recordings and festival moments. Browse a selection of festival photos, listen to Refuge Worldwide broadcasts and the 2026 Radio Lab commissions via Deutschlandfunk Kultur, watch the Resynthesising the Traditional lab presentations and discussions, listen to a selection of Discourse programme talks, and read a first batch of magazine articles featuring participants and themes evoked throughout the festival programme.

Interviews, Essays, Reflections on Sound, Music and Society

A Festival and Platform for Adventurous Music & Art

CTM connects multi-perspective experiences, critical reflection, hedonism, and collaborative learning via a yearly festival and continuous collaborative projects, publications, commissions, concerts, club nights, and more. Here is more on what we do, our partners, our commitments, and our 25-year history.