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CTM 2021 News: Highlights 25–27 January

  
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Affective States of Exception

  
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Fascinated By

  
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Apotome – Talk and Artist Takeovers

  
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The Right to Do Nothing / Hak Untuk Malas

  
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Symmetry for Five

  
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Partners

  
     
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CTM 2021 News: Highlights 25–27 January

  

CTM 2021– Transformation Keyvisual. Design by Vojd.

  

The week begins with feminist philosopher and activist Ewa Majewska and the Oramics collective discussing anti-authoritarian tactics for artists, the first trans/local performance by Isabel Lewis & Loraine James, and another selection of performances re-streamed from the Morphine x Beirut fundraiser, this time focusing on Beirut-based musicians. Be sure not to miss Khyam Allami introduce his Apotome generative microtonal tuning environment, an effort to combat the Western bias in music-making tools and performance. Deena Abdelwahed, Slikback, and Wahono will also each present their own new creations via recorded artist takovers of the software. Streamed performances by Senyawa, Keiji Haino and The Observatory, plus commissioned works from Riar Rizaldi, Christina Wheeler, and Mark Fell and Jim O'Rourke with Rian Treanor, Petronn Sphene, and Limpe Fuchs round out performances for the first part of the week.

  
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Affective States of Exception

  

Oramics logo Image courtesy of the collective

  

Avtomat, Dogheadsurigeri, Mala Herba, and Monster of Oramics collective in conversation with Ewa Majewska

25.1.2021 | 18:00 UTC+1 | online

Feminist philosopher and activist Ewa Majewska and the Poland-based feminist/queer Oramics collective discussing steps that artists can take to resist authoritarian and polarizing states.

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Fascinated By

  

Loraine James Photo: Jase Coop

  

Trans/local performance by Isabel Lewis & Loraine James

25.1.2021 | 20:30 UTC+1 | online

A new work by Isabel Lewis and Loraine James kicks-off CTM's trans/local performance series. Each trans/local performance unites a Berlin-based artist with creators in other parts of the world, who explore ways of remote collaborative work and performance.

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Apotome – Talk and Artist Takeovers

  

Khyam Allami Photo: Johanne Issa

  

Presentation by Khyam Allami and Artist Takeovers by Deena Abdelwahed, Slikback, Wahono

Presentation | 26.1.2021 | 19:00 UTC+1 | online
Artist Takeovers | 26.1.2021 | 20:00 UTC+1 | online

Artist and researcher Khyam Allami will give a short introduction to Apotome – a browser-based generative music system focused on using microtonal tuning systems and their subsets (scales/modes). Through an in-depth collaboration with Counterpoint, this application is an effort to highlight the cultural asymmetries and biases inherent in modern music-making tools. Deena Abdelwahed, Slikback, and Wahono then take over Apotome. Their new works are each created and performed in a single take using Apotome from their home studios in Toulouse, Kampala, and Jakarta respectively.

  
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The Right to Do Nothing / Hak Untuk Malas

  

Riar Rizaldi Photo: Jung-geun Park

  

Commissioned Work by Riar Rizaldi for CTM 2021 Radio Lab

27.1.2021 | 18:00 UTC+1 | online

This sonic fiction in the form of radio play will take you into a world of non-productivity; a world without work. A short Q&A moderated by music journalist Aida Baghernejad follows.

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Symmetry for Five

  

Limpe Fuchs Photo by Mia Karic

  

Trans/local Performance 2 with Mark Fell with Jim O'Rourke, Rian Treanor, Petronn Sphene, feat Limpe Fuchs

27.1.2021 | 20:00 UTC+1 | online

The second work commissioned within CTM 2021's trans/local performance series uses a number of different approaches to remote collaboration, including an open and flexible performance infrastructure developed by Mark Fell and Rian Treanor.  Each trans/local performance unites a Berlin-based artist with creators in other parts of the world, who explore ways of remote collaborative work and performance.

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Partners

  
  

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

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