In response to the worsening Covid-19 conditions this winter, CTM’s 23rd edition has been split into two parts. Final confirmations for CTM Part 1 focus on the festival’s exhibition and new installations presented at Kunstquartier Bethanien, plus online talks and workshops to kick-off our Discourse programme. Looking ahead, we’re excited to share first elements of a thrilling concert and club programme, which will take place in May at the heart of CTM 2022 Part 2. More CTM 2022 Part 2 programming will be announced in March.

Runs 29.1.–27.3.2022 | Opening 28.1. 17:00 | Free entry

The CTM 2022 exhibition »Connected Alienation / Vernetzte Entfremdung« provides a look into various aspects of working collaboratively in pandemic times. The works by Ale Hop, Ali Eslami & Mamali Shafahi, Dana Gingras / Animals of Distinction, Hugo Esquinca, and Ibrahim Quraishi are the result of artistic exchanges across distances. They involve a wide range of voices including Arca, Peaches, Sam Rolfes, Marie Davidson, Lucrecia Dalt, Patrick Mason, KMRU, and many more. Taken together, they point to potentials, effects, successes, and pitfalls of telematically mediated contact and encounters. How can connections, artistic exchange, and mutual understanding be developed and nurtured when physical togetherness is not possible?

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Runs 29.1.–6.2.2022 | Opening 28.1. 17:00 | Free entry

Under the title »Connected Alienation – Bonus Tracks,« three installations by Collo Awata & Madam Data, Gaspar Cohen, and pantea & u-matic & telematique will be presented in the Kunstquartier Bethanien Projektraum, highlighting works created through some of CTM’s ongoing international collaborations.

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30.1.2022 | 16:00 | Online | and more throughout 2022

This edition of the Rethinking Music Ecosystems – an ongoing series aimed at encouraging thinking and exchange on sustaining more equitable music systems – invites Berlin-based collective Black Swan to concoct a participatory experiment with the extended music community. Employing decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO) infrastructure and thought in a bid to realise new ways of creating work, Black Swan will work with a number of resource-pledging silent stakeholders. Black Swan will offer a public presentation and Q&A titled »Prototyping Sonic Institutions« to kick off the project at CTM, and an open call for participants will be launched in March.

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30.1. & 6.2.2022 | Online | with more events 24–29 May

Several discussion modules will also be streamed via CTM’s YouTube channel. Music researcher Shzr Ee Tan will lead a module exploring how we might uncover hidden flows in the world of music and performance, reframing discussions on labour, authenticity, and creation in dialogue with researchers Rehilwe Mooketsi and Anjeline de Dios, who bring specific perspectives from South Africa and the Philippines respectively. Radio Lab Kontinuum commission winner Jonathan Reus will present the launch of »In Search of Good Ancestors / Ahnen in Arbeit,« a year-long sound work exploring intergenerational thinking and voice synthesis.

Check the Part 1 Discourse programme here. More talks will take place at CTM part 2 in May.

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22.1. & 2–4.2.2022 | Online

A series of online workshops for artists by artists, titled A2A Transmission, will once again offer sessions to sound practitioners with the aim of expanding their skill sets and practices at a time when touring and in-person performance opportunities are greatly reduced. Jessica Ekomane walks musicians through beginner practices in Max/MSP; artist and technologist Hexorcismos explores deep learning techniques for audio; producer, rapper, and founder of Holdersland Haleek Maul delivers an intro into Web3 and NFTs for musicians; SVBKVLT affiliate Gooooose discusses how to develop a singular sound using stock plugins; Senyawa’s Rully Shabara examines the voice as representative of one's ideas and ideals while convening participants in a shouting workshop; producer and composer SØS Gunver Ryberg offers insights into translating artistic practice into composing for video games and film. These intimate and practical 2-hour sessions see various artists provide insights into their specific practices.

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A limited number of Virtual Visits are available to the CTM 2022 exhibition and installations plus the »Modular Organ System« as well as the Radio Lab works by Fronte Violeta and Andrius Arutiurian – for those who are unable to join us in person. Conducted by local friends and colleagues within CTM’s extended network, the visits aim to foster personal exchange, and to offer a glimpse of several CTM events at a time when more people than ever might not be able to make it in person.

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Festivals are as much about art and music as they are about exchange and togetherness. The second half of CTM 2022 heads full-force into the shared experiences and dancefloor euphoria that have been at the heart of the festival since the beginning. A preliminary CTM 2022 Part 2 schedule is available online and Part 2 Festival Passes are on sale now. Many more artists will join the currently confirmed lineup of:

• Alada [BR/DE]
• Animistic Beliefs [NL]
• Aquarian pres. »Orouboros« live (visuals by Sougwen) [INT]
• Arsenal [UG]
• Avtomat [PL]
• Bloomfeld [DE]
• Chrisman [UG]
• deli girls [US]
• dj botox [DE]
• De Schuurmann [NL]
• DJ Fuckoff [NZ/DE]
• Ecko Bazz [UG]
• Edna Martinez [CO/DE]
• Elvin Brandhi [UK]
• Gábor Lázár [HU]
• Haxan [DE]
• Ifeoluwa [NG/UK]
• I Hate Models [FR]
• Jennifer Cardini [FR/DE]
• Jennifer Walton [UK]
• Little Snake [CA]
• Loraine James [UK]
• Machine Girl [US]
• Nakul Krishnamurthy [IN]
• Nazar & Shapednoise present Sentient_1 [INT]
• Nene H [TR/DE]
• NURSE3D [INT]
• Opium Hum [DE]
• Ostbam [PL/DE]
• Raed Yassin – »The Phantom Orchestra« [INT]
• Slumberland feat Sainkho Namtchylak [BE/RU
• Urin [INT]
• VARIÁT [UA/DE]
• Yazzus [UK/DE]
• Yung Singh [UK]

Stay tuned as we announce more acts and programming in the spring.

Full Schedule

There are no festival passes for CTM 2022 Part 1 in January/February; tickets to individual events are now on sale. Festival passes to CTM 2022 Part 2 are now on sale in limited quantities. Tickets to May events will become available in spring. Check our ticket section for information and to purchase.

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In-person access to all festival events will be offered under the »2G+ rule« (vaccinated, recovered, plus an additional venue-dependent measure: negative test and/or wearing a mask throughout the event). Please check our detailed Festival Access and Hygiene Rules.

Streamed content will be offered free of charge via CTM’s YouTube channel.

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 | »dive in. Programme for Digital Interactions« of the German Federal Cultural Foundation with funding of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) through the »Neustart Kultur« programme | Autonom – Fonds Darstellende Künste | Federal Agency for Civic Education | Musicboard Berlin

In Cooperation with
transmediale 2022 | singuhr – projekte | HAU Hebbel am Ufer | Berghain | Festsaal Kreuzberg | Kunstquartier Bethanien | Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien  | radialsystem | silent green | Heimathafen Neukölln | SchwuZ | Tieranatomisches Theater / Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Supported by
Embassy of Canada | Embassy of the Netherlands | Ableton | Complete Audio | SAE | HEDD Audio | 3 Schwestern

Media Partners
The Wire | Crack | FACT Magazine | Tip Berlin | taz – die tageszeitung | Siegessäule | RBB radioeins | Berliner Fenster | Deutschlandfunk Kultur