We continue the festival with an artist discussion and premiere around the work of Wendy Carlos and other sound pioneers, as well as re-streamed highlights from the Morphine x Beirut Fundraiser and Nyege Nyege Festival's 2020 edition.

Lisa Rovner, Frances Scott, and Tom Richards in conversation with Lisa Blanning

18:00 UTC+1 | online

This discussion throws some light on recent projects by Lisa Rovner as well as by Frances Scott and Tom Richards to engage with the works, histories, and legacy of female electronic music pioneers, whose stories are still not known widely enough.

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Short Film and Newly Commissioned Studio Recording, in Collaboration with transmediale, 2020 / 2021

19:30 UTC+1 | online

»rehearsal letter« is a recorded studio session for transmediale x CTM 2021, produced as part of the development of a soundtrack for artist Frances Scott’s forthcoming work »Wendy«; a film fan-letter to composer and musician Wendy Carlos. Sound is by musician and instrument designer Tom Richards. Scott's short film »Valentina« will also be shown.

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Excerpts from the Morphine x Beirut Fundraiser

With: Marta De Pascalis

20:00 UTC+1 | online

Marta De Pascalis will be the first of several Morphine x Beirut sets highlighted at CTM 2021. Last autunm, Morphine came together with CTM Festival, Beirut music initiatives Irtijal Festival, Ruptured, Tunefork Studios, The Ballroom Blitz, and Frequent Defect, plus Poland's Unsound to produce the original marathon 17 hour programme to fundraise for the Beirut disaster.

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Excerpts from Nyege Nyege Festival

With: Don Zilla, Nakibembe Xylophone Troupe, Mata Group

21:00 UTC+1 | online

At their December 2020 edition, Nyege Nyege festival attempted to regroup sounds and music communities from all over Africa and the African diaspora. A selection of these performances will be re-streamed at CTM, starting with two short documentary films created and introduced by Don Zilla.

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Support Artists Performing at CTM 2021

Show your appreciation of an artist’s livestreamed performance using the CTM Drop App developed by Ape Unit’s Eventivize. ◊Drops can be distributed during a live set or performance, or equally among all participating artists, and artists will receive additional income on top of their artist fee after the festival.

◊Drops are funded by purchases of the CTM Solidarity Festival Pass, and by festival sponsors Ableton and HAU Hebbel am Ufer. To install the CTM Drop App scan the QR code above with your phone, or follow the link below and click on the »Get the Drop App« button on your mobile phone.

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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.

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