Lingua Ignota and Midwife both appear in support of their newest albums created during lockdown confinements, in this double-bill event, co-presented by CTM Festival and Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz.

Lingua Ignota 2021 album Sinner Get Ready  is an unsettling portrait of devotion and betrayal, judgement and consequence, set in the derelict landscape of rural Pennsylvania, a neglected region deeply embedded with a particularly god fearing brand of Christianity where Hayter was living during the album's inception. 

Supporting the event is the project, Midwife, the moniker of multi-instrumentalist Madeline Johnston. As a self taught guitarist and recording engineer, with her project she explores dark subject matter in her anthemic, soft-gaze style that is self-described as »Heaven Metal,« or emotive music about devastation - catharsis.

Artists based in Europe may apply until 31 March to be considered for the 2023-24 roster of the platform for innovative music and audiovisual art. The call is open to emerging talent working in sound and audiovisual fields. SHAPE+ stands for Sound, Heterogeneous Art and Performance in Europe and is co-funded by the European Union.

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Two further CTM Magazine articles have been published in response to the 2023 edition's Portals theme.

In »Satan Likes Distortion« CTM 2023 performers ABADIR and Van Boom exchange on their shared love of music and connecting with global communities from the specific vantage points of their adjacent home regions and generations.

The Berlin-based journalist and musician Farhad Mirza explores the cultural history of dissonance and noise from the perspective of non-Western music cultures, with a focus on Pakistani/Indian folk and classical music in particular. In his essay titled »A Well-tempered History of Noise,« Mirza explores the understanding of the genealogy of dissonance and noise through the lens of musical thought in non-Western cultures.

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Thank you all for joining us for our 24th edition! We hope you had a joyful and fun time at the festival. A wealth of performances, talks, and exchanges at the festival are available for viewing online, from the collection of HÖR Berlin x CTM 2023 live sets and the Refuge Worldwide x CTM 2023 broadcasts, to the CTM 2023 Discourse talks on YouTube, and our yearly photo collection on Flickr. Have a look, and see you back next year!

Two radio works by Anna Kravets and Isuru Kumarasinghe, winners of the CTM 2023 Radio Lab call for works, will be broadcast this spring on Deutschlandfunk Kultur. The winner of the CTM 2022 Kontinuum call for generative artworks, Jonathan Reus, will also broadcast an end-of-life gesture to mark the close of his year-long stream.

Broadcast Schedule

• 24 March 2023 at 00:05 – Isuru Kumarasinghe »Gilunu: I Became One with You«
• 31 March 2023 at 00:05 – Jonathan Reus »In Search of Good Ancestors«
• 7 April 2023 at 00:05 – Anna Kravets »An Emotional Encyclopedia of War«

Each broadcast will air five minutes after midnight of the announced date, and will later be accessible via Deutschlandfunk Kultur's website or in Germany on air via DAB+ / UKW / FM. Check back to our next newsletter for direct links.

Last year's winning Radio Lab project »Incantations« by Andrius Arutiunian has just been re-broadcast and and is available for lsiteners via the Deutschlandfunk Kultur website. The second 2022 Radio Lab production »What is Not«byFronte Violeta with Martha Kiss Perrone has been awarded the prestigious Palma Ars Acoustica by the European Broadcastin Union. The piece can be listened to here.

The CTM Radio Lab is led by CTM Festival and Deutschlandfunk Kultur – Radio Art / Klangkunst in collaboration with Goethe-Institut, ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst, Ö1 Kunstradio, and The Wire magazine.