CTM 2022 will take place as a hybrid edition that aims to balance the possibilities of in-person events amongst ongoing uncertainties and the vastly different contexts and speeds of reopening in Europe and worldwide. The first CTM 2022 confirmations feature personal/artistic responses to lack of human contact; the unease of increasingly consolidated authoritarian power structures; attempts to create new musical spaces that bridge traditions, histories, artforms, and more-than-human worlds; as well as exhilarating club sounds celebrating the joy of collective dancefloor experiences.

• Andrius Arutiunian – »Incantations« [LT/NL]
• deli girls [US]
• De Schuurman [NL]
• DJ Fuckoff [NZ/DE]
• Edna Martinez [CO/DE]
• Fronte Vacuo – »Humane Methods [ΣXHALE]« [IT/DE]
• Fronte Violeta & Martha Kiss Perrone – »What is Not (O Que Não Está)« [BR]
• Jennifer Walton [UK]
• Jonathan Reus [US/NL]
• Loraine James [UK]
• Machine Girl [US]
• Nakul Krishnamurthy [IN] – »Tesserae«
• NURSE3D [DE]
• Ostbam [PL/DE]
• Raed Yassin [LB/DE] – »Phantom Orchestra«

With further special projects listed below.

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Performative sound installation by Philip Sollman & Konrad Sprenger with interventions by Arnold Dreyblatt, Brass Abacus, Ellen Arkbro, Kali Malone & Stephen O'Malley, Will Guthrie

Existing in the liminal space between concert, installation, environment, and performance, »Modular Organ System« is a multi-part instrument built from numerous sound generating objects that can be controlled by computer. The project interweaves contemporary electronic and computer music with organ traditions and is a working collaboration between visual artists, organ builders, technologists, and artisans. Musicians of diverse practices have been invited to experiment with the instrument over the course of ten days. During this time, the presentation will alternate between various modes of sound production, ranging from sound installation to precomposed pieces to improvisational dialogues between the performing artists and the system.

Presented by singuhr-projekte in collaboration with CTM Festival. Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, and the Co-production Funds of the Berlin Senate for Culture and Europe.

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Apply by 28 November

The yearly MusicMakers Hacklab is an open, collaborative environment where participants work together during CTM Festival week to explore and realise new musical ideas. After a fully virtual year in 2021, this upcoming Hacklab takes a first step back into in-person collaboration with an open call for participants based in Berlin. Hosted by Peter Kirn of CDM and Ariel William Orah of Soydivision and L-KW, this year’s Hacklab fellows are invited to consider intimacy and physical proximity in their Hacklab creations, but also how they might reshape their artistic identities or local communities/scenes, building unfamiliar selves while remaining in a familiar city/place.

Details and to apply

Apply by 5 November

Vorspiel is an initiative by transmediale and CTM Festival that aims to showcase the richness and diversity of Berlin's independent project spaces and artist initiatives. An open call is out now to local groups wishing to participate in contributing to the Vorspiel 2022 programme, through a range of (on/offline) formats. Contributions can span fields of sound and digital/media art, as well as hybrid fields joining art/science, design and more.

Details and to apply

In-person access to CTM 2022 events will be offered under the 2G rule (vaccinated, recovered), while online/streamed content will once again be offered free of charge. Information on festival passes will be announced mid-November.

With QEEI, LINNÉA + Berlin Strippers Collective, Ixa, and LYZZA. Hosted by Sookee.

»Queers in Concert« (QIC) is a series created by the city’s longest-running queer club, SchwuZ, to counteract the disappearance of queer culture during the pandemic by supporting active and ongoing participation of queer artists, who are invited to fill the silent halls of the SchwuZ with creative life, spectacular shows, and great live music over the course of the series’s six evenings. For CTM's contribution to »Queers in Concert« hosted by our longstanding partner Schwuz, we are delighted to present a programme that reflects the events we’ve executed together in efforts to highlight Berlin’s talented queer community.

Both the stream and the concert on site are free of charge for the audience, however in-person attendance is limited capacity, requires pre-registration, and is restricted to the 2G rule (vaccinated or recovered). Please bring a digital Covid certificate and photo ID with you.

Funded by
Senate Department of Culture and Europe | Goethe-Institut | Auswärtiges Amt | Creative Europe Programme of the European Union | German Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media | German Federal Cultural Foundation | Capital Culture Funds | Musikfonds

In Cooperation with
transmediale 2022 | HAU Hebbel am Ufer | Berghain | Festsaal Kreuzberg | Kunstquartier Bethanien | Radialsystem | Silent Green | SchwuZ

Supported by
Complete Audio