Two nights of premieres and experimental music performance with: Nene H, Khyam Allami, Andys Skordis, Sofia Zafeiriou, Alyssa Moxley, Gaspar Cohen, Savvas Metaxas & more

Chronotopia is an initiative by CTM Festival and Goethe-Institut Athen, that highlights connections between experimental music and research present and past.

Following an artistic lab in 2020, where six participants selected from an open call engaged with the artistic knowledge and ideas held within the KSYME Contemporary Research Centre in Athens, Chronotopia presents for two evenings of experimental sounds at Athens & Epidaurus Festival. The programme includes the premieres of commissioned works resulting from this artistic lab, by artists Alyssa Moxley, Gaspar Cohen, Giulia Vismara, Max Eilbacher, Savvas Metaxas, and Sofia Eleni Xezonaki, as well as three new commissioned works from artists Sofia Zafeiriou, Andys Skordis, and Khyam Allami, created with Allami’s transcultural music software Apotome and Leimma; and live performances by Berlin artist Nene H and local Athens producers Thanos Hana and Morah.

Thanks to everyone that came out to our series of in-person events at the start of the month! The collection of performances and installations shown all examined processes and questions of change in critical and affective ways, resonating with the 2021 Transformation festival theme. We've put together a small CTM 2021 Part Two Flickr gallery highlighting the performances and installations that brought us together to enjoy those shared sensory and sonic experiences that we've all missed so much. To accompany the Ventrilogues spatial sound exhibition, Peter Kirn has also created a new article for the CTM magazine that reflects on the history and current state of spatial sound technology and artistry. Successfully rounding out this 2021 edition, we're already in the midst of working towards CTM 2022 - Contact.

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Essays related to CTM 2021 Transformation

New articles have been published in relation to the Transformation theme.

Discussing the influential yet overlooked work of composers such as Jocy de Oliveira, Jacqueline Nova, and Beatriz Ferreyra in an article titled »Invisible Twice: A Not So Untold History of Latin American Women in Early Electronic Music« music journalists Amanda Cavalcanti and Felipe Maia point to gaps in Western electronic music history, which often neglects pioneers coming from or operating in this sphere's »periphery.« The article is also available in Spanish and in Portuguese.

Accompanying the just-passed »Ventrilogues« sound exhibition at CTM 2021 Part Two, Peter Kirn's »Fantasies of Immersive Music: From 1940s Broadway to 2021 Berlin« takes readers on a journey through a brief history of spatial sound, before examining its present-day landscape.

The 23rd edition of CTM, themed Contact, will take place as a mix of in-person and hybrid/online formats, and aims to explore the fragility of physical and communal music experiences, and imagine how we might strengthen them in this new pandemic reality.

An open call is out now for the 2022 Research Networking Day, which assembles students and researchers in the fields of music, audio, art, and related fields for a session of presentations and exchanges. Deadline 10 October.

Thanks to everyone that applied to the Radio Lab and Kontinuum open calls! Results for these calls will be announced mid-October.

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