CTM 2022 Part 1: 19 Jan – 6 Feb 2022
CTM 2022 Part 2: 24–29 May 2022

In the face of a worsening winter pandemic situation, we will once again split the festival into two parts this year. The CTM 2022 Part 1 schedule is now online. Part 1 will focus on in-person formats that remain safe for artists and the public – sound installations, select seated concerts including a newly-confirmed 40 Years of Touch showcase, the CTM Exhibition, part of the Discourse programme – as well as several online offerings. Tickets are on sale now.

CTM 2022 Part 2 will feature the festival’s club and concert programme, the MusicMakers Hacklab, and further Discourse programme talks.

In splitting the festival we seek to stay adaptive to the unpredictable nature of the pandemic while preserving important forms of continuity – encouraging connections, supporting ongoing artistic work, and engaging in crucial dialogues.

CTM 2022 Contact asks how we might establish positively transformative modes of contact with other realities beyond our own, be it between people with different ways of life, in different parts of the world, between generations, or with our planetary environment and the diversity of its life forms. What modes of listening are relevant and urgent in the present moment and how might we listen in more compassionate ways?

Details of the CTM 2022 Exhibition and winter Discourse programme, as well as a first programme announcement for CTM 2022 Part 2, will be out in January.

New for the January programme is a special 40 Years of Touch concert that features longtime collaborators as well as artists that consistently expand the experimental music’s sonic terrain. With Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Ipek Görgün, Oren Ambarchi & crys cole, Youmna Saba, The Tapeworm.

Presented online via HAU4 and CTM’s YouTube channel, »Jump Cut« is a six-part series of streamed collaborations conceived by Dana Gingras/Animals of Distinction that curates unpredictable multidisciplinary encounters. The series premiered at CTM 2021 with limited releases of the initial episodes, and will now be shown in its entirety, including the premieres of the final two episodes at CTM 2022. With: Brenna Murphy, Marie Davidson, Lucrecia Dalt, Peaches, Roger Tellier-Craig, Sabrina Ratté, Sonya Stefan, Tot Onyx & many more.

The 2022 Research Networking Day will feature short presentations within different thematic modules related to CTM’s Contact theme. With: Helen Anahita Wilson, Jasmin Schreiber, Shrey Kathuria, Caitlin Shepherd, Hakeem Adam, Lottie Sebes, Ultimate Leisure Worker’s Club, Caroline Ford DeCunzo, Michelle/Min Lai, and Nelle Möller. Hosted by Paderborn University, UdK Universität der Künste Berlin, and the German Association for Music Business and Music Culture Research (GMM).

In the »Keys Only« partner event taking place during CTM 2022 Part 1, Berlin’s ensemble mosaik will present a concert programme that focuses on the sonic possibilities of synthesizers and keyboards – only.

In collaboration with transmediale, the city-wide Vorspiel 2022 initiative will unite over 65 Berlin-based initiatives and venues in a programme featuring exhibition openings, performances, interventions, artist talks, and special events. The programme will be announced in January and will run in parallel to CTM and our sister festival transmediale 2021-22, who will round out their year-long festival edition with a symposium and an exhibition.

CTM 2022 Contact asks how we might establish positively transformative modes of contact with other realities beyond our own, be it between people with different ways of life, in different parts of the world, between generations, or with our planetary environment and the diversity of its life forms. What modes of listening are relevant and urgent in the present moment and how might we listen in more compassionate ways?

Details of the CTM 2022 Exhibition and winter Discourse programme, as well as a first programme announcement for CTM 2022 Part 2, will be out in January.

Modular Organ System

19.–23.1. & 26.–30.1.2022 | daily 16–22:00 | Betonhalle
Performative installation by Phillip Sollman and Konrad Sprenger, with interventions by Arnold Dreyblatt, Brass Abacus, Ellen Arkbro, Kali Malone & Stephen O’Malley, Will Guthrie

Vorspiel

Opening: 21.1.2022 | Runs: 22.1.-6.2.2022
A networked programme that runs parallel to and in collaboration with transmediale and CTM Festival that aims to showcase the richness and diversity of Berlin's independent project spaces and artist initiatives active in music and sound, visual and media arts, as well as connected hybrid fields.

Andrius Arutiunian »Incantations«

28.–30.1.2022 | daily 16–22:00 | silent green Kuppelhalle
Commissioned as part of the CTM Radio Lab, this work for voice and electronics is rooted in sung and spoken forms of spells and charms that have long been used to enchant reality and oscillate the universe back to its balanced state. Presented as an installation at CTM 2022, and as a radio drama by Deutschlandfunk Kultur in March.

CTM 2022 Exhibition »Connected Alienation/ Vernetzte Entfremdung«

28.1.–27.3.2022 | Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
The CTM Exhibition will reflect on the Contact theme through audiovisual works by Ale Hop, Dana Gingras / Animals of Distinction, Ibrahim Quraishi, nerd_funk, and many more artists and contributors.

Nusasonic x Musicboard Berlin Residency

28.1.–6.2.2022 | Kunstquartier Bethanien – Projektraum
Commissioned by Nusasonic and Musicboard Berlin, artists Collo Awata and Madam Data will premiere an installation resulting from a months-long residency spanning Berlin and Singapore. Nusasonic is an initiative by Playfreely/BlackKaji, Yes No Wave, WSK Festival for the Recently Possible, CTM Festival, and Goethe-Institut Southeast Asia.

Research Networking Day

29.1.2022 | 14–18:00 | online
An exchange platform for students and researchers from different graduate and postgraduate programmes traversing the fields of audio, arts, media, design, and related theoretical disciplines. Short presentations within different thematic modules are  linked by discussion rounds at the end of each session. In collaboration with Paderborn University, UdK Universität der Künste Berlin, and  the German Association for Music Business and Music Culture Research (GMM).

40 Years of Touch

31.1.2022 | 18:00 | silent green Kuppelhalle
UK-based imprint and publisher Touch celebrates forty years of activity with a specially conceived concert that features longtime collaborators as well as artists that consistently expand the experimental music’s sonic terrain. With Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Ipek Görgün, Oren Ambarchi & crys cole, Youmna Saba, The Tapeworm.

Fronte Violeta »What is Not (O Que Não Está)«

31.1.–4.2.2022 | 12–18:00 | Tieranatomisches Theater
Commissioned as part of the CTM Radio Lab, this work by Fronte Violeta with Martha Kiss Perrone takes place in the context of end-of-the-world narratives, provoking the possibility of types of contact that trigger new perceptions of listening to what is absent, and to narratives, bodies, and technologies that survive disasters. Presented as an installation at CTM 2022, and as a radio drama by Deutschlandfunk Kultur in March.

Dana Gingras & Animals of Distinction »Jump Cut«

1.–6.2022 | daily 18:00 | HAU4 & CTM YouTube
A video series that features multi-disciplinary casts of artists exploring remote collaboration. Daily premieres with: Brenna Murphy, Marie Davidson, Miguel Prado, Lucrecia Dalt, Peaches, Roger Tellier-Craig, Sabrina Ratté, Sonya Stefan, Tot Onyx, and many more. Presented with HAU Hebbel am Ufer.

Partner Event: Keys Only

2.2.2022 | 20:00 | Kulturbrauerei (Kesselhaus)
Ensemble mosaik’s members have been deepening their virtuosity on synths and keyboards, since undertaking multiple performances of Enno Poppe's »Rundfunk 3« over the past years. This engagement serves as the starting point for »Keys Only,« which will feature premiere collaborations with composers Mirela Ivičević, Georgia Koumará, and Maximilian Marcoll.

A2A Transmission

2.–4.2.2022 | online
A series of six online workshops for artists by artists that aims to help sound practitioners expand their skill sets and practices at a time when touring and in-person performance opportunities remain affected by the pandemic. The workshops will be announced in January.

Fronte Vacuo »Humane Methods [ΣXHALE]«

5–6.2.2022 | daily 18:00 & 21:00 | Radialsystem
Performance group Fronte Vacuo presents a ritualistic choreography where human, more-than-human, and AI lifeforms influence one another, revealing an uneasy interdependence. Presented with HAU Hebbel am Ufer.

24–29 May 2022

Club nights, concerts, the MusicMakers Hacklab, and Discourse programme at Berghain, Heimathafen, Kunstquartier Bethanien, and other venues tba. The programme will be announced in January.

Due to ongoing uncertainties with the Covid-19 pandemic, we will not offer festival passes to CTM 2022 Part 1 events. Tickets to January/February events are now on sale. Streamed content will be offered free of charge via CTM’s YouTube channel.

Press accreditation is now open, with an application deadline of 7 January 2022. Press accreditation to CTM 2022 grants access to all Part 1 events and most Part 2 events, with exceptions tba.

In-person access to all festival events will be offered under the »2G+ rule« (vaccinated or recovered, and with mask).

Radio Features, Mixes, and Articles by and about Music in SEA

Since 2018 Nusasonic has been collaboratively curating festivals and concerts, artistic labs and residencies focused on exchange within Southeast Asia and between SEA and Europe.

Further magazine articles by artist Pisitakun on Thai Isan culture, Sara Rivera on care networks in Southeast Asia, Anjeline De Dios on understading the work of live music, and Pinky Htut Aung on sonic resistance in Myanmar have been published throughout the year.

Audio transmissions via mixcloud include a new mix by CTM curator Born in Flamez, plus radio features by Yes No Wave (Indonesia), Heresy x WSK (Philippines), Dom Dom (Vietnam), Black Kaji (Singapore), and CTM Festival (Berlin) – each showcasing experimental musicians of their home regions – have been steadily released. Be sure to stay tuned for more transmissions, including a compilation album release of tracks resulting from the Common Tonalities workshop led by Khyam Allami will be published in spring 2022.

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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 | Autonom – Fonds Darstellende Künste

In Cooperation with
transmediale 2022 | singuhr – projekte | HAU Hebbel am Ufer | Berghain | Festsaal Kreuzberg | Kunstquartier Bethanien | Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien  | Radialsystem | silent green | Heimathafen Neukölln | SHAPE

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