CTM Festival will return to Berlin from 24 January – 2 February 2025, visiting partner venues silent green, radialsystem, Berghain, Morphine Raum, and more. Further open calls along with more details on our upcoming edition will be announced soon—stay tuned for further updates.

Two open calls are now announced below.

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Together with Deutschlandfunk Kultur – Hörspiel / Klangkunst and in collaboration with ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst, Ö1 Kunst zum Hören, and tekhnē, the CTM Radio Lab seeks proposals from artists worldwide that engage with the emancipatory potential of technology in music and sound art.

The call is open to artists worldwide and relevant to fields of experimental music, sound art, radio art, new radio drama, and performance. The commissioned works will premiere at CTM 2025 Festival in Berlin (24 January – 2 February 2025), and will be subsequently broadcast in Deutschlandfunk Kultur’s Klangkunst programme in spring in the form of a 40–55 minute radio piece. The Österreichischer Rundfunk (Austrian Broadcasting Service) will also present the works via one or more of its platforms: the Ö1 Zeit-Ton or Ö1 Sound Art: Kunst zum Hören radio shows, and/or the ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst festival in Graz (Autumn 2025).

Proposals need to respond to the CTM Radio Lab 2025 theme »Affection«. Application deadline: 30 September 2024.

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The peer-reviewed, open-access journal for the study of electronic music and dance culture, Dancecult, has launched an open call for talk proposals for the conference, DC25: Preserving and Archiving Electronic Music and Dance Cultures. DC25 will take place 24–25 January 2025 at the Technische Universität Berlin in collaboration with its Audio Communication Group and CTM Festival. Deadline: 15 September 2024.

More information and to apply

A new magazine articles related to our past edition, CTM 2024 Sustain, has been published.

In »Love More, Judge Less: How Budots Music Informs Understandings of Intersectionality,« we follow Manila Community Radio volunteers Sai Versailles and Sean Bautista as they undertake a trip to the Bisaya-speaking region in the Philippines to visit and interview DJ Love, one of the pioneers of budots music, and share their excitement as they prepare for a Boiler Room showcase in Manila. They ponder questions of mediating local subcultures and genres and transplanting them to middle-class, urban audiences.

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