A big thank you to everyone that submitted proposals to this Radio Lab edition! Two winning projects have been selected from over 100 proposals – which we are looking forward to supporting and presenting at CTM 2023, and via Deutschlandfunk Kultur and ORF radios.

Having experienced her own habitual reference system fall apart, together with the hopes that the full-scale war would not actually break out in Ukraine, Anna Kravets aims to work towards an emotional encyclopedia in order to try to interact through the locus of strong emotional experience or emotional emergency. Sri Lankan artist Isuru Kumarashinghe proposes to continue his explorations on the resonance of sympathetic strings and space activated by voice and Esraj, using its resonance along with field recordings as the sonic source of an eternal resonating chamber.

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Titled »Rifts,« the 2023 Hacklab edition will explore the connective possibility of disruption. Running 30 January – 5 February 2023, this edition is co-hosted by artist Verónica Mota, and Peter Kirn. The yearly Hacklab is an open, collaborative environment where participants work together during CTM Festival week to explore and realise new musical ideas that are presented in a public finale performance. A worldwide open call is now out to all artists, experimenters, and thinkers wishing to participate. Deadline to apply is 31 October 2022.

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This worldwide open call seeks proposals from writers and thinkers wishing to contribute to the CTM Festival online magazine. Apply by 15 November.

Since 2014, CTM Festival has curated a yearly magazine with the intent of providing a number of entry points into the annual festival theme, and to present voices, ideas, and content that extend beyond the presentation possibilities of a music festival. The magazine was published in print during the years 2014–2019, and as of 2020 it has shifted to a purely digital format.

With the wish to expand our contacts, topics, and viewpoints, CTM is launching an open call to writers, thinkers, and artists wishing to propose a piece relating to CTM 2023, its »Portals theme,« or engaging with ongoing topics within independent music ecosystems and scenes.

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Morton Subotnick – intermedia artist, electronic music pioneer, and developer of one of the world's first modular analogue synthesizers together with Don Buchla – will be featured in a special event that pairs a world premiere screening of the official bio-documentary, Subotnick: Portrait of an Electronic Music Pioneer, with a rare live performance by the storied composer.

The event is presented by CTM Festival, Ableton, and Waveshaper Media, the Toronto-based production company behind Subotnick and the acclaimed modular synthesizer documentary I Dream Of Wires (as seen on Netflix / SkyArts). The screening of Subotnick will be followed by a concert of »As I Live and Breathe,« one of Morton Subotnick’s last performance pieces, which he will present together with stunning live visuals from longtime collaborator Lillevan. Ahead of the film screening, Subotnick will also take part in a discussion and Q&A alongside film director Robert Fantinatto.

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Funded by
Senate Department of Culture and Europe | Goethe-Institut | Auswärtiges Amt | »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

In Cooperation with
Berghain |  HAU Hebbel am Ufer | Silent Green | Radialsystem | Morphine Raum | RSO | transmediale

Programme Partner
CDM | Deutschlandfunk Kultur – Hörspiel / Klangkunst | Elektronisches Studio – Fachgebiet Audiokommunikation – Technische Universität Berlin | German Association for Music Business and Music Culture Research | ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst | ORF Kunstradio | SHAPE + | University of Paderborn | Berlin University of Arts