We head into the final festival weekend with a series of panels and discussions, the final concert in our trans/local performance series, more Nyege Nyege Festival highlights, a virtual club night, experiments in 360° HD performances, the results of a weeklong creative sprint by MusicMakers Hacklab fellows, and a closing concert with Berlin's pop and experimental concert series Shameless/Limitless. The CTM Cyberia launch date is now updated and definitively confirmed for 13 February!

Virtual Multiplayer Environment and Festival Exhibition

With works by: Peaches and Pussykrew, Mouse on Mars and Louis Chude-Sokei, Byrke Lou, Alba G. Corral, Florence To, Marcin Pietruszewski with Alex Freiheit, Robert Lippok and Lucas Gutierrez, Sote and Tarik Barri, S4NTP, Omsk Social Club x Portals Cashmere Radio x Alexander Iezzi, SFX, IOR50 Studio, Khyam Allami x Counterpoint, Gabber Modus Operandi x Rimbawan Gerilya x Siko Setyanto

13.2.–14.3.2021 | online

We are extremely pleased to announce the new and definitive launch date for CTM Cyberia on Saturday 13 February. The team has been working tirelessly to bring this unique and visceral virtual experience online, and we are excited to share this multi-player experimental playground with all! CTM Cyberia invites visitors to explore the space as scrambled unstable avatars, and interact with each other via chat, movements, and throwing emoji bombs. Different aesthetics and sound environments can be found in its multiple rooms and outdoor spaces – as well as hidden artworks by a cast of contributions.

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Presented by Ableton

With: Born in Flamez, Sarah Farina, and similarobjects in conversation with Cee

28.1.2021 | 18:00 UTC+1 | online

Self-reflection can equally help or hinder artists. This panel, presented by Ableton, discuses difficulties, possibilities, and tactics that artists can use to overcome their creative demons while remaining self-critical and growing.

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Live Performances Filmed in High-definition 360° VR Video

With: Cuntroaches, Mentrix, SPANDAU20 Live Showcase: ANNA Z & J. Manuel vs. Claus Schöning & FJAAK with visuals by Pfadfinderei

28.1.2021 | 20:30 UTC+1 | online

Shot live in Festsaal Kreuzberg using high-definition 360° cameras that can play with an impressive range of angles, close-ups, and points of view, a group of Berlin-based artists and bands have been invited to conceive special scenography and visuals together with the SIDF collective for an online concert night titled »CTM 360°.«

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With: Faten Kanaan, Khyam Allami, Lucy Railton, Matana Roberts, Nene H & more

29.1.2021 | 18:00 UTC+1 | Panel: »Dismantling Western Bias in Music Software and Music Education«
29.1.2021 | 20:30 UTC+1 | Live performances

Khyam Allami’s »Apotome« project, launched at CTM 2021 in myriad forms, is a call to critically address and dismantle inherent cultural biases that are hard coded (and wired) into today’s digital and electronic music-making tools. A discussion between Deena Abdelwahed, Khyam Allami, Matana Roberts, Tero Parviainen, and moderator Dahlia Borsche will explore which structural and technological changes are necessary for more liberated, creative, and culturally-balanced music-making. Following the discussion, Allami and composer Faten Kanaan will each perform on Apotome live, sending signals to synth musicians Enyang Ha, Nene H, Tot Onyx, and Tyler Friedman while cellist Lucy Railton adds improvisation on top.

Born in Flamez feat Muxxxe, Lilly Pfalzer & Rebecca Pokua Korang

29.1.2021 | 21:45 UTC+1 | online

Using voice, bodies, electronics, and plastic waste, Berlin’s Born in Flamez and dancers Lilly Pfalzer and Rebecca Pokua Korang connect with faceless Mexican performer Muxxxe to explore ideas of gender, transformation, physical expression, and the body, at a time of rising censorship and authoritarianism.

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Alexander G. Weheliye and DeForrest Brown, Jr. in conversation

30.1.2021 | 18:00 UTC+1 | online

Departing from Alexander G. Weheliye’s analysis of Berlin techno in »White Brothers with No Soul,« and DeForrest Brown, Jr.’s work in the forthcoming book, Assembling a Black Counter Culture, the two thinkers appear in conversation to discuss techno and Blackness, and their development and entanglements in the various stages of post-war colonial globalisation.

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Virtual Club Night Presented by Club Qu x CTM x IOR50 Studio

With: Arieshandmodel (Tortilla), Oscar Nñ (Papi Juice), DORMANTYOUTH (Pussy Party), EPX x ERAM feat. SASKIA (ZONA EXP), ISAbella (Maricas), Betty Apple (ArtKB48)

30.1.2021 | 22:00 UTC+1 | online

Club Qu (aka Club Quarantäne) is a virtual online club that sprung up as the first lockdown hit Europe in spring 2020. For their collaboration with CTM, Club Qu have teamed up with IOR50 Studio and its co-founders Sam Aldridge and Giusy to present a queer motion capture archive within the virtual club’s space. The club night's lineup has been collaboratively curated specifically to feature an international range of queer collectives.

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Experiments in Remote Collaborative Performance

With Hacklab fellows: Bruno Gola, Ce Pams, Mamady Diarra, Mint Park aka BAKÁH, My Panda Shall Fly, Nerve, Ruhail Qaisar, Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo, Tokzhan Karatai, Yifan He. Hosted by Peter Kirn and Olivia Jack

31.1.2021 | 18:00 UTC+1 | online

The MusicMaker's Hacklab is an intensive weeklong collaborative environment, where 10 Hacklab fellows, selected via open call, experiment and exchange to bring new musical ideas to life. Hacklab fellows present their work at this finale event – this year with a focus on novel mechanisms for remote collaboration. Hosts Peter and Olivia will be present on-site at the silent green Betonhalle while Hacklab fellows, located all over the world, will perform together remotely.

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CTM 2021 Closing Concert in Collaboration with Shameless/Limitless and Streamback

With Amigdala, Ultraflex, and Sean Nicholas Savage feat. Marcin Masecki

31.1.2021 | 20:00 UTC+1 | online

CTM’s closing concert this year will be presented together with Shameless/Limitless (S/L), one of Berlin’s long-standing concert series for live pop and experimental music. We’re also excited to try out some live performer-audience interaction during the concert. Anyone tuning in can instantly upload short video reactions – dancing, cheering, applause etc – and send them to the artists, as well as the rest of the online audience, using the browser-based Streamback app. Your videos will be sorted and mixed in together with visuals by Pfadfinderei.

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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. 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.

◊Drops are funded by purchases of the CTM Solidarity Festival Pass, and by festival sponsors Ableton and HAU Hebbel am Ufer. The CTM Solidarity Pass is also available for purchase at a donation range of 5–100€.

CTM Drop App
CTM 2021 Solidarity Pass

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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