We're thrilled to announce 50 more artists joining our already pulse-pounding programme!

The festival schedule is now online with detailed descriptions for your browsing pleasure, and all event tickets are now on sale. The final music programme confirmations as well as our Discourse talk programme will be announced in January.

Newly-confirmed acts are:

• alys(alys)alys (BR/DE)
• claire rousay with Martyna Basta (INT)
• Ellen Arkbro with Microtub pres »Clouds For Three Tubas & CHORDS For Trumpet« (INT)
• gyrofield (CN/UK)
• Isaka (US/DE) »Elytra« Live
• Kuntari (ID)
• Lucy Railton with Charlie Hope and Rebecca Salvadori (INT) »Not A Word From Me«
• Modulaw (CH)
• AKA HEX (INT)
• rRoxymore b2b Deena Abdelwahed (INT)
• State OFFF (NL)
• Tarta Relena (ES)
• Witch Club Satan (NO)

Surf Gang takeover with:

• evilgiane (US)
• Eera (US)
• fakemink (UK)
• Lauren Duffus (UK)
• and more tba

SOFT CENTRE x CTM collaboration with:

• Female Wizard (AU)
• Karina Utomo x Joshua Wells x R. Rebeiro (AU)
• NERVE (AU)
• R. Rebeiro (AU)
• SOLSA (AU)
• Thick Owens (AU)
• Tayhana (AR/MX)
• and the previously announced project »STACK«

Meta Rave presents:

• Gadutra (BR)
• Genosidra (CO)
• Lechuga Zafiro (UY)
• Maque (BO)
• Nuevo Prohibido b2b DJ LOUI FROM JUPITER4
• and the previously announced rEmPiT g0dDe$$

The Wilding AI Lab fellows:

• Daniel Limaverde (BR)
• Evangeline Y Brooks (CA)
• Federico Visi (DE)
• Gadi Sassoon (IT)
• Hyeji Nam (KR/AT)
• Irini Kalaitzidi (UK/GR)
• Nico Daleman (CO/DE)
• Ninon and Jun Suzuki (INT)
• SENAIDA (CA)
• Three Amps (DE)
• Transient Cat (FR)
• TWEE (INT)

And the detailed programme for the DC25 Conference by Dancecult.

Read the full announcement

CTM Festival passes and tickets are on sale in limited quantities. You can choose from CTM Festival passes which grant access to most CTM events, Weekend Passes for each respective CTM Festival weekend, or Connect Passes for CTM+transmediale.

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We’re thrilled to announce a first-time collaboration with cutting-edge Australian arts organisation SOFT CENTRE, who have curated a number of projects at the festival, showcasing leading voices from the burgeoning Australian underground. After the festival we’ll be announcing more collaborative programming which will see CTM visit SOFT CENTRE in August 2025.

SOFT CENTRE x CTM

The four-day  lab hosted within the 4DSOUND environment at MONOM will assemble a group of participants to learn about the application of generative AI in spatial audio, and collectively explore the wilder territories of AI. Created in collaboration with the initiative »Wilding AI« the namesake four-day lab will assemble a group of 14 participants selected from an open call to learn about the application of generative AI in spatial audio, and collectively explore the wilder territories of AI. Congratulations to Daniel Limaverde, Evangeline Y Brooks, Federico Visi, Gadi Sassoon, Hyeji Nam, Irini Kalaitzidi, Nico Daleman, Ninon and Jun Suzuki, SENAIDA, Three Amps, Transient Cat, and TWEE who were selected from a pool of 75 applicants this year!

Hosted within the 4DSOUND environment at MONOM, the lab will take place under the guidance of hosts Alexandre Saunier, Beth Coleman, Maurice Jones, and Portrait XO. Be sure not to miss the open studio session on Sunday 26 January where participants will be presenting ideas and works-in-progress along with discussions.

Wilding AI Lab

The full programme for Dancecult’s DC25 conference is now online! Hosted by the peer-reviewed, open-access journal for the study of electronic music and dance culture, Dancecult in collaboration with Audio Communication Group of Technische Universität Berlin, and CTM Festival, the two-day conference will feature a combination of paper presentations and panel discussions, where all presentations will be live streamed. The conference will run 24–25 January 2025 at the Technische Universität Berlin, with free entry.

DC25 aims to explore various dimensions of electronic music and dance cultures (EMCDs) and the challenges associated with their documentation, preservation, and archiving. The conference questions the necessity of preservation and the role of institutions in keeping these cultures alive. It also reevaluates existing oral histories by exploring who has been asked to share their stories and who may have been left out, particularly marginalised individuals. The conference will also address methodological challenges of cultural preservation: How and what to archive and preserve when it comes to electronic music and dance cultures?

Dancecult DC25 Conference

Funded by
Senate Department of Culture and Social Cohesion | The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media | Goethe-Institut | German Federal Foreign Office | Creative Europe Programme of the European Union | Pro Helvetia | Embassy of the Netherlands | Embassy of Norway

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

Programme Partners
4D SOUND | Berlin Technical University | Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) | Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD | Dancecult | Deutschlandfunk Kultur Hörspiel / Klangkunst | Freie Universität Berlin | ORF Ö1 Kunstradio | SHAPE+ | SOFT CENTRE | Somerset House Studios | tekhné | Trust

Media Partners
Deutschlandfunk Kultur | RBB radioeins | Refuge Worldwide | The Wire 

Supported by
d&b Audiotechnik | SAE | Berliner Pilsner | Tanqueray | Don Julio