Welcome to the 22nd edition of CTM! We start off our Discourse series of talks, panels, lecture-performances today, with two thematic modules that approach the theme of »Transformation« from different perspectives, plus on-demand streaming of the film Sisters with Transistors.

Full Discourse series overview

Lectures by Edna Bonhomme and Ben Trott followed by discussion

18:00 UTC+1 | online

Drawing on Berlin as a site of multiple communities and cultures, this session considers queer, club, and African diasporic practices of care, particularly within the time of Covid-19.

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Lectures by Carla J. Maier, incognito researcher, AM Kanngieser & Zoe Todd

20:00 UTC+1 | online

This session presents a variety of critical approaches to sound and listening as our social, political, environmental, cultural, and economic climates transform.

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Film by Lisa Rovner

Stream on-demand 21–31 Jan 2021

Sisters with Transistors is the untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, re-markable composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly trans-form how we produce and listen to music today. The film portraits Clara Rockmore, Daphne Oram, Bebe Barron, Delia Derbyshire, Maryanne Amacher, Pauline Oliveros and many other pioneers of modern sound.

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Information on our Live Stream, Discord, Solidarity Pass & more

All CTM 2021 events will be streamed live via the CTM YouTube channel and the CTM website Live page. Join performing artists, participating speakers, and the CTM team to chat and enjoy this virtual edition together via the CTM Discord server, now open until 14 February 2021.

While all CTM 2021 events are free, you can support performing artists via the CTM 2021 Solidarity Pass. Valued between 5–100€, all proceeds from the Solidarity Pass will be donated to participating artists via the open-source CTM Drop App, created by Ape Unit's Eventivize. The app is an exploration of alternative ways of valuating and monetising online music performance and art, aiming to offer the public different ways of financially supporting artists.

A further way to support artists is to browse and purchase some of their music. We've created a playlist for CTM 2021 – Transformation on Buy Music Club, a platform that allows anyone to create and browse lists of independent music purchasable on Bandcamp.

We’re also excited to be testing out the previously mentioned new Streamback browser-based app within our select Discourse series events and CTM's closing concert. After registering for the app, you can record and send video questions to the talk Q&A sessions, or reactions to the closing concert performances, which will be visible to the speakers, artists, and audience.

Funded by

Senate Department of Culture and Europe | Initiative Musik | German Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media | NEUSTART KULTUR programme | Goethe-Institut | German Federal Foreign Office | Creative Europe Programme of the European Union | Fonds Podium Kunsten | Performing Arts Fund NL

»CTM Cyberia«, »Streamback«, and »CTM Drop App« are developed as part of »dive in. Programme for Digital Interactions« of the German Federal Cultural Foundation with funding by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media through the NEUSTART KULTUR programme.

Media Partners

The Wire | FACT | Deutschlandfunk Kultur | Resident Advisor | Ask Helmut