CTM 2021's first weekend continues with the Research Networking Day platform presenting ideas and projects in development by junior and senior researchers, followed by a 6-hour long virtual sci-fi rave in Minecraft created together with Club Matryoshka. Festivalgoers can also tune-in to Club Matryoshka's Twitch to follow the music live.

Presentations and discussion by Andrea Liu, Elina Tapio, Siobhan Leddy Hosted by Michael Ahlers

12:00 UTC+1 | online

The Research Networking Day (RND) is an exchange platform for students and researchers from different graduate and postgraduate programmes traversing the fields of audio, arts, media, design, and related theoretical disciplines. The first of three modules explores non-human sound worlds and collective agency.

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Presentations and discussion by Andrea Liu, Elina Tapio, Siobhan Leddy Hosted by Michael Ahlers

13:50 UTC+1 | online

What happens when an instrument is completely extracted from its native environment and cultural context? How can we transform the archetype of the witch into a figure relevant for modern capitalism? What does sonic manspreading mean? The second Research Networking Day module explores the domains of performativity and personas.

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Presentations by s/n (Hassan Pitts & Jennida Chase), Patricia Cadavid, Emre Öztürk

15:30 UTC+1 | online

A multiplatform documentary project highlighting personal stories of senior African Americans from across eras of profound social change, research on an ancient textile computer used in the ancient Inca empire, and a study contrasting diversity and discrimination in virtual raves as compared historically from early 90s rave culture until present day irl parties round out the third and final module of the 2021 Research Networking Day.

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Virtual sci-fi rave in Minecraft + Twitch Stream

With: 33EMYBW, Amazondotcom, AYA b2b xin, Bored Lord, De Grandi, Floating Sound Nation, FRKTL, Pisitakun, Mary Anne Hobbs, Moa Pillar, object blue, S280F / 011668 / VVXXII, rRoxymore, Sonia Calico, t0ni, Tegh, W00dy, ZULI

17:00 UTC+1 | online

As a follow-up to our first collaboration with Club Matryoshka, we've expanded on the unique »Alpha Lebbeus« Minecraft world, including with a story-based gameplay narrative co-developed with artist collective Children of Cyberspace. The six-hour journey is soundtracked by live and DJ sets created by a diverse group of emerging artists from around the globe, curated in a collaborative spirit by Club Matryoshka and CTM.

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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 | GEMA

»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