Advertising for a music event while a war rages on in Ukraine feels painfully out of place. During the past three weeks we’ve collectively felt shock, anger, and confusion on how to best help, but also motivated by the resistance of Ukrainians, and by the multitude of responses from people and communities worldwide. Our support and solidarity will need to last for a long time. We hope to keep finding meaning and value in the continuity of music activity that stands in contrast to the war and its catastrophic destruction.

This fresh wave of CTM 2022 Part 2 Acts highlights our much-awaited return to immersive nights of music, and the joy of meeting old friends and new strangers on the dancefloor, strengthened by the artists including Aïsha Devi, BADSISTA, Delish Da Goddess, Duma, Grove, Mixtress, Raja Kirik, Senyawa and many more. A first batch of themes and speakers for our Discourse programme are also announced.

There can never be enough music in our lives – especially when it fuels open, independent, and experimental music communities.

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We stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine in the face of the horrendous attacks on the country’s independence and right for self-determination, that are not only an attack on Ukraine, but on the very attempt to build a peaceful and democratic Europe. Here is a list of support actions and information sources on donations and news outlets. This list is by no-means exhaustive and we encourage you to stay informed on Ukraine news and on solidarity initiatives in your area.

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The Hacklab is an open, collaborative environment where participants work together during CTM Festival week to explore and realise new musical ideas. Originally scheduled for January 2022, the Hacklab will now take place at CTM 2022 Part 2 in May. A new open call is out inviting Berlin-based artists, experimenters, and thinkers to apply. IMPORTANT: If you previously applied through the original open call in Sept/Oct 2021 and do not have significant changes to your proposal, you do not have to re-apply. Your application will be automatically considered. Should you have significant updates to your application, please feel free to send a new application.

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CTM 2022 Part 1 is a wrap! It was an immense pleasure to be able to gather together again and experience immersive sonic experiences, despite things still feeling slightly weird, and knowing that many international friends could only tune-in online. Although this time we weren’t able to dance in sweaty clubs and show up exhausted the next day for more, we hope some of this will be possible at CTM Part 2 in May. In the meantime have a look back to Part 1 premieres and talks on our YouTube channel, listen to discourse talks on soundcloud, browse impressions of CTM Part 1 on Flickr as documented by our photo team, check through some press reviews, and read below for ongoing and new events.

The next wave of CTM 2022 Part 2 programmes and event tickets will be announced mid-March.

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Jonathan Chaim Reus has been selected as winner of the 2022 Kontinuum call for generative sound work. Exploring intergenerational thinking and voice synthesis, his project »In Search of Good Ancestors / Ahnen in Arbeit« sees an artificial broadcaster, a bespoke voice synthesis system utilizing current deep learning techniques in voice synthesis and style transfer, shifs through speech and song, words and soundscapes as it explores ideas of intergenerational thinking over a singular audio channel over a period of one year via a dedicated website. The broadcaster also airs  on Germany’s national broadcasting service, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, whenever there is a gap in radio programming.

Listeners will have a chance to influence the artificial broadcaster through a series of workshops led by Reus and experimental publishing collective Varia. The second will take place in-person at CTM 2022 Part 2, details tba.

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Listen to the radio versions of this year's Radio Lab commissioned works on Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

18 March at 00:05
Fronte Violeta with Martha Kiss Perrone »What is Not / O Que Não Está«

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25 March at 00:05
Andrius Arutiunian »Incantations«

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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, Dana Gingras / Animals of Distinction, Hugo Esquinca, and Ibrahim Quraishi are the result of artistic exchanges across distances and time. They involve a wide range of voices that spans among other Peaches, Alaska Thunderfuck, Hanna Schygulla, Marina Abramović, Lucrecia Dalt, Ana Quiroga, Noah Chomsky, Sarah Williams, Moises Horta, and KMRU. Taken together, they point to potentials, effects, successes, and pitfalls of telematically mediated contact and encounters.

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This series of six exclusive mixes by artists Audrey Chen, Avtomat, Hüma Utku, Sentient_1, Thoom, and Zoë McPherson stretches across some of the sounds supported by the SHAPE platform for adventurous and emerging artists. The artists have all compiled tracks and sounds that are currently inspiring them – or that they have created themselves, and their mixes are complemented by short interviews with Mariana Berezovska of borshch magazine.

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24 March 2022 | 20:30 | The Grey Space in The Hague, Netherlands | Free entry

Using the cello, voice and analog electronics, Audrey Chen’s work delves deeply into her own version of narrative and non-linear storytelling. A large component of her music is improvised, un-processed and her approach is extremely personal and visceral. She is joined by local selector Grittygun.

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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 | »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 | Federal Agency for Civic Education

In Cooperation with
Berghain | Kunstquartier Bethanien | Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien  | Revier Südost | Heimathafen Neukölln | SchwuZ

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

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