The CTM 2023 programme is now complete!

Several more music highlights round out the festival’s programming. A closing concert presented together with transmediale will feature the strong aesthetics of Amnesia Scanner and Freeka Tet, who explore their deep fascination with system vulnerabilities, informational overload, and sensory excess. The A2A Transmission workshops series is back, this time in person, offering sound practitioners several intimate sessions with seasoned artists, on topics of performance and production. CTM’s Portals Discourse programme is also announced.

The festival will take place 27 January to 5 February 2023 at multiple Berlin venues, including Berghain, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, silent green, and more. With the Portals theme, CTM 2023 aims to highlight the potentials of sound and music as gateways to other realities that give access to specific modes of experience, histories, communities, and speculative futures.

Final music programme confirmations are:
- Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet (INT) »strobe.rip«
- Isabella Forciniti (IT/AT)
- Philou Louzolo (NL)
- Tanat Teeradakorn and Nuh Peace (TH)
- Team Rolfes (INT) »3-2-1-Rule«

Film screening:
»Can and Me« by Tessa Knapp and Michael P. Aust (DE, 2022) followed by an artist talk with Irmin Schmidt (DE)

A2A Transmission workshops with:
- Brian Bamanya aka Afrorack (UG)
- Audrey Chen (US/DE)
- Jay Mitta (TZ)
- Lush Lata (IN)
- Menzi (ZA)
- Stefanie Egedy (BR/DE)

Discourse programme with:
- Altay Bozkurt (TR/DE)
- Anna Kravets (UA)
- Authentically Plastic (UG)
- Brandon LaBelle (US/DE)
- Diana Azzuz (SY/UA)
- Eugene Angelo (UK)
- Fenna de Jong (NL)
- Film screening: »Singeli Movement: Greed for Speed« by Jan Moss / Nyege Nyege Tapes (2022)
- Ionana Vreme Moser (RO/DE)
- Jay Mitta (TZ)
- Kathleen Bomani (TZ)
- Mariana Berezovska (UA/DE)
- Miloš Hroch (CZ)
- Nazanin Noori (IR/DE)
- NZIRIA (IT)
- Queen Asher & Rehema Tajiri (TZ)
- Whitney Wei (US/DE)
- Yewande Adeniran (UK)
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Festival passes and tickets are on sale in limited quantities. Festivalgoers can choose between the CTM Pass, which grants access to most of the festival’s events, or the Connect Pass which offers additional access to transmediale festival programming.

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Closing out the 2023 editions of transmediale and CTM, Amnesia Scanner will premiere their new work »strobe.rip« in collaboration with multidisciplinary artist Freeka Tet. The combination of provocative aesthetics from two celebrated artistic projects fuses into an affecting narrative about isolation and survival within today’s collapsing ecosystems and information environments. Opening the night are Team Rolfes with »3-2-1 Rule,« a VR-puppeted, motion capture avatar-ed, mixed-reality narrative project that will appear in a live stage adaptation at CTM.

The A2A Transmission is a series that aims to help sound practitioners expand their skill sets and practices through direct exchange with seasoned artists. With experimental vocalist Audrey Chen, singeli don Jay Mitta, gqom producer Menzi, sub-bass explorer Stefanie Egedy, Coven Code collective member Lush Lata, and the Ugandan artist and modular synth builder Brian Bamanya, also known under the artist name Afrorack.

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CTM will host the Berlin premiere of the new documentary film »CAN and Me« by director Michael P. Aust. The film offers an intimate look into the life and work of Irmin Schmidt, founder of the Cologne-based band CAN, widely hailed as pioneers of the German krautrock scene, which shaped generations of musicians in pop and electronic music. The film will be shown in the presence of Irmin Schmidt, who will join a conversation with the director after the screening.

The 2023 Discourse programme will provide multiple entry points into the festival theme of Portals. Featuring explorations and panel discussions of different temporalities, the thriving artistic online digital underground, the perspectives and challenges facing Gen Z in social and club culture, cultural production in times of war and oppression, and much more. With: Altay Bozkurt, Anna Kravets, Authentically Plastic, Brandon LaBelle, Fenna de Jong, Luigi Monteanni, Mariana Berezovska, Miloš Hroch, Nazanin Noori, NZIRIA, Queen Asher & Rehema Tajiri, Whitney Wei, Yewande Adeniran & more.

Previously-announced, a daylong discourse programme »We Found Our Own Reality« will reflect upon exchanges and resonances between the Indian and global experimental music and design communities both historically and into the present, featuring talks by Rahila Haque with Paul Purgas, Regina Bittner, You Nakai, Nabihah Iqbal, and Coven Code’s Lush Lata.

The 2023 Portals Discourse programme will come to a close at HAU2, under the title »The Time For Denial is Over.« Led by GROUP50:50 and presented as a companion event to their evening performances »The Ghosts are Returning,« the afternoon programme that regroups activists and thinkers from Europe and Africa to further discuss the foundations for a transnational restitution movement.

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Funded by
Senate Department of Culture and Europe | Goethe-Institut | Auswärtiges Amt | Co-funded by the European Union | Federal Agency for Civic Education | »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 | NEUSTART KULTUR | Initiative Musik | Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media | Fonds TURN2 of the Federal Cultural Foundation of Germany | Musikfonds e.V.

In Cooperation with
Berghain | Festsaal Kreuzberg | HAU Hebbel am Ufer | KW Institute for Contemporary Art | Morphine Raum | MONOM | Panke | radialsystem | RSO.Berlin | silent green | transmediale 2023

Programme Partner
Afropollination | SHAPE+ | Deutschlandfunk Kultur Hörspiel / Klangkunst | ORF Ö1 Kunstradio | CDM | German Association for Music Business and Music Culture Research | Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) | Paderborn University | The Electronic Music Studio at the Technical University of Berlin | PODIUM Esslingen | Centre d’Art Waza Lubumbashi | DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Program | Refuge Worldwide | Fablab Neukölln | Workish.Berlin | 42 Berlin

Supported by
Becks | Complete Audio | Dubplates & Mastering | Electronic Studio of the Technical University Berlin | HEDD Audio | Pirate Studios | SAE | WALL AG

Media Partner
Deutschlandfunk Kultur | The Wire | Full Moon Zine | RBB radio eins | Refuge Worldwide | die Tageszeitung | Berliner Fenster | TIP | Siegessäule