CTM's 25th edition starts tonight!

Weekend highlights include concerts by Ben Frost feat Greg Kubacki and Tarik Barri. Recently penning music for Netflix's acclaimed Dark and 1899, Ben Frost will appear in support of his first solo album since 2017. In a new live collaboration with Greg Kubacki of U.S. math/metalcore band Car Bomb and celebrated audiovisual artist Tarik Barri, Frost continues to expand his visceral approach to sonic and cinematic experimentalism.

»Osmium« is a new project from the minds of Oscar-winning composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, Grammy-winning producer Sam Slater, Subtext boss James Ginzburg, and pioneering Indonesian vocalist Rully Shabara, of Senyawa. The four musicians assemble to create surprising and hypnotic music using specially built instruments, finding a balance between the mechanical and the organic. As Shabara picks up on feedback sounds from the mechanised elements of the instruments to create new rhythms with his extended vocals, the »robots« themselves continue playing whether or not the instrumentalists add their own personal chaos. Heavy on percussion, and spectral timbres, the project explores how organic sounds blend into the sound of machines, and vice versa.

Saturday's club night at OXI is flushed out with new acts including the Odesa label Suck Puck, repped by Gina, Gigi Diagnostico, and Fat Frumos who bring a hybrid/live b2b2b set inspired by niche genres the world over. aya crafts avant-garde spoken word club bangers so deconstructed their jewelled sinews barely hold them together. hypnoskull is regarded as one of the pioneering acts of raw, anarchic, and subversive industrial techno. Created in 1992 as a solo project, the project explores dance floors as therapeutic zones where both artists and the public can find cathartic release. Moesha 13, a DJ and producer known for a fast paced mixture of French hip-hop, hardcore, and reggaetón into hybrid club tracks and mixes. Moesha 13 will appear at CTM with a live set, joining many more acts billed for the night.

Full Festival Programme

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By Mere Nailatikau, AM Kanngieser, KMRU, Laisiasa Dave Lavaki, Tumeli Tuqota (INT)
Runs: 26.1. – 4.2.2024
Daily 12 – 21:00
silent green Kuppelhalle

Sessions with mandatory masking on:
30.1. at 18:30, 31.1 & 4.2. at 14:00.

Discourse talk input: 1.2. | 14 – 15:00
radialsystem, free entry

»Oceanic Refractions« is an immersive installation featuring testimonies of Fijian, i-Kiribati and Papua New Guinean elders on kinship, self-determination and care in the face of global ecocide. Along with reflections from these teachers, artists, fisherpeople, grandparents and chiefs, we hear field recordings of the reefs of Fiji, the oceans and mangroves of Kiribati, and the shorelines of Papua New Guinea’s Duke of York Islands. Through hyper-detailed soundscape compositions, combined with 360 videography, kinetic seating, and olfactory effects, »Oceanic Refractions« creates an unforgettable sensorial experience. Moved by listening and silence, the installation offers audiences rare insights into the environmental relations sustaining Oceania’s many worlds.

The result of several years of research and talanoa (dialogue) with Indigenous  leaders, scholars, artists and advocates from Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, the Marshall Islands and Nauru, the work is led and produced by artists AM Kanngieser (Australia/Germany) and Mere Nailatikau (Fiji) and who combine their expertise in climate research, education and arts (Kanngieser) and Pacific communication and international relations (Nailatikau), as I they work with sound artist KMRU (Kenya/Germany), filmmakers Laisiasa Dave Lavaki (Fiji) and Tumeli Tuqota (Fiji), olfactory designer Smell Art (Australia), design and fabrication studio Space Forms (Ireland) and projection specialist Algorithm (Ireland).

The themes addressed by the installation will be further explored through talks and lectures at both CTM Festival and transmediale, as well as through specially commissioned texts featured via the festival magazines. »Oceanic Refractions« is co-produced by CTM Festival and transmediale with funding by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds (German Capital Culture Fonds), Creative Australia and with support from the European Commission.

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The second article in our series of CTM 2024 comes from the writer and artist oxi peng, who, caught up with Sabiwa ahead of the artist's performance at CTM 2024, to talk about »memory« as a practice that sustains the sounds of tradition. Drawing inspiration from and being rooted in the tradition of Taiwanese folk music — where music is composed through »feeling« of the relational in-betweenness — Sabiwa »memories about« the sounds that have faded away and those that are yet to emerge.

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Festival passes and event 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. New this year, we are also offering Weekend Passes for each CTM Festival weekend respectively.

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Funded by
Senate Department of Culture and Social Cohesion | Hauptstadtkulturfonds | The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media | Goethe-Institut | German Federal Foreign Office | Creative Europe Programme of the European Union | Zeitgeist Irland 24, an initiative of Culture Ireland and the Embassy of Ireland in Germany

In Cooperation with
transmediale 2024 | Berghain | Gedächtniskirche | Morphine Raum | OXI | radialsystem | RSO.Berlin | silent green | Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 

Institutional Partners
Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands | Embassy of Sweden | Pro Helvetia

Programme Partners
SHAPE+ | Deutschlandfunk Kultur Hörspiel / Klangkunst | ORF Ö1 Kunstradio | tekhnē | CDM | German Association for Music Business and Music Culture Research | Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) | Paderborn University | Institute Art Gender Nature at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design Basel | Trust | Refuge Worldwide | VierNulVier (Ghent) | Stuk (Leuven) | Lunchmeat Festival

Media Partners
Deutschlandfunk Kultur Hörspiel / Klangkunst | Full Moon | Groove | RBB radioeins | Refuge Worldwide | Siegessäule | Tip | The Wire 

Supported by
d&b | SAE | Berliner Pilsner | WALL AG