Conceived by Dana Gingras, with Marie Davidson, Austin Young, Peaches & more

Six-episode series streaming throughout 2021 | Watch via CTM YouTube channel

Jump Cut #2 + #3 | 22 May | 21:00 UTC+1

CTM is commissioning partner of »Jump Cut,« a six-part web series of streamed collaborations between multidisciplinary artists. Following the inaugural episode of Jump Cut presented at CTM 2021, we'll now continue airing episodes with various partners throughout the rest of 2021. Each episode will also include a talk with the commissioned artists.

Jump Cut #2 – presented with MUTEK.ES – pairs Gingras with Montreal-based electronic musician Marie Davidson, and Paris-based Canadian video artist Sabrina Ratté. Treating the body like a living sculpture, the emphasis will be on capturing the minutiae of movement and morphing the human body back and forth between a virtual body. This dialogue will be coupled with sound to create a sense of an altered corporeal reality.

Jump Cut #3 is presented with Take Me Somewhere Festival. Multi-media artist Austin Young brings together drag performance artists Alaska Thunderfuck, Willam Belli and Laganja Estranja to form a triple deity performing to a soundtrack by queer icon Peaches. They are triple-voiced, triple-pointed, and triple-faced. Together they playfully engage with themes of transformation and manifestation in a search for an authentic multiplicity.

Both episodes will stream in couple with a post show interview with the creators. More on the series via our website.

Online workshops and panel discussions

With: aya, Bani Haykal, Emma Warren, FRKTL, Olivia Jack, Rully Shabara, Ziad Nawfal & more

Last week of May & June 2021 | online

Returning for a second edition, Nusasonic: Gather Share Evolve aims to intensify capacity building and knowledge sharing among music and sound artists in Southeast Asia via a series of online panel discussions and workshops. Workshops are limited capacity, and require pre-registration.

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Radio episodes and in-depth essays exploring sound in Southeast Asia

With our Nusasonic partners we continue to publish regular radio episodes and magazine articles that explore diverse music practices, communities, and sonic entanglements in Southeast Asia. Recent Nusasonic magazine articles include an essay on care in Southeast Asian music networks during pandemic times by Sara Rivera, Pisitakun's writing on the sounds of Thailand's Isaan region, and a field report on the scene in Yangon by Wok the Rock and Joee Mejias. Nusasonic Radio episodes have most recently featured 3 distinct scenes in the Philippines by WSK x Heresy, a collection of sounds by female musicians in Indonesia by Yes No Klub, and a journey down the Mekong river with Chinabot. More essays and transmissions are on their way!

Essays and interviews related to CTM 2021 Transformation

The first of four essays resulting from our Rethinking Music Ecosystems workshops have been recently published. DeForrest Brown Jr. breathlessly offers a survey of a music industrial complex that can't seem to remember why we even listen to, let alone pay for, music. Jay Jordan offers a compelling account of what's at stake when politically engaged art and culture so often get relegated to the realm of criticality.

In conversation with Daniela Silvestrin, interdisciplinary collective Fronte Vacuo (established by Marco Donnarumma, Margherita Pevere, and Andrea Familari) explore the limits of Western knowledges, values, and frameworks for creating, understanding, working with, and relating to technology. Christine Kakaire speaks with Jan St. Werner and Louis Chude Sokei about Anarchic Artificial Intelligence (AAI), and charts the evolvoing practice of Christina Wheeler, catalysed by an unintended moment of resonance, and realised through unwavering engagement with the deepest-seated human impulses. Speaking to transmediale and CTM, Frances Scott and Tom Richards explore the processess behind their commissioned performance based on a film fan-letter to composer and electronic music pioneer, Wendy Carlos.

Further articles related to CTM 2021 Transformation can be found via the CTM Magazine, using the #transformation keyword. Many more articles from past CTM festival editions have also recently been made available online.

We are currently looking for an intern to support us in Festival Administration for CTM 2022, with core dates of 28 January – 6 February 2022. While the exact dates, scope, and format of our 23nd festival edition are still uncertain, we are steadily navigating changing restrictions in order to respond to ongoing pandemic challenges with experimentation, creativity, and reflection.

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We're added a new item to the CTM Shop: the CTM logo-shaped metal pin with enamel inlays. Available in two colours, with a quarter of proceeds donated to Moor Futures contributing to climate protection. Elevate your bag, jacket or wherever else you see fit by adding a low-key nod to CTM Festival.