With less than two weeks left, we’re breathlessly bringing you some heavy-hitting final music confirmations. We’ve got some wild new additions on board, from post-sewer operatic darkness and quivering flashfried emotions to hard-coded generative synthesis and maximised queered club vibes—a sweaty, teeth-baring celebration to leave your aura shimmering.

The CTM 2025 music programme is rounded out by:
• Zola Jesus (US)
• Xiu Xiu (US/DE)
• Bendik Giske (NO/DE)
• Dadabots (US)
• softchaos b2b River Moon (INT)
• Venus Ex Machina (UK)
• ZULI (EG/DE) »Lambda«
• obese.dogma777 (PH)
• Anthem (DE)
• Europa (DE)
• Ifeoluwa (UK)
• Rizla Ops (UK)
• Yungfya (UK)
• DJ BOTOX (DE)
• Opium Hum (DE)

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CTM 2025 Programme Schedule

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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The second year of collaboration between d&b and CTM will see the launch of the d&b Soundscape Room in Berlin, at the newly opened Haus der Visionäre’s Sonnenraum space. The room will feature a dynamic program of concerts by Eve Aboulkheir, Young Sibling, and Bella Comsom who will also speak about her practice with spatial audio ahead of her performance. Workshops by sound designer and composer Andrew Rahman, and sound artist Brigitta Muntendorf with d&b Soundscape creator Ralf Zuleeg will allow participants to immerse themselves into the technology. All events will be presented through d&b’s advanced Soundscape technology—a flexible, immersive system offering precise control over the placement and movement of sound objects within a three-dimensional sound space. Concerts at the Volksbühne will also be presented in d&b Soundscape, expanding the immersive experience across both locations.

d&b Soundscape programme overview

The CTM 2025 Discourse programme will touch on several thematic strands suffusing the festival’s concert and lab programmes:

• Artists and researchers exploring the thematic strand of Anarchy in the AI: Dadabots (US), Michael Salu (UK/DE) and James Ginzburg (US/DE) and the Wilding AI cohort with Beth Coleman (US/CA), Daniela Huerta (MX/DE), Maurice Jones (DE/CA), Pía Baltazar (CA), Romi Morrison (US), Sahar Homami (INT), with moderators Clara Herrmann (DE) and William Russell (AU/DE)
• Explorations on Resynthesising the Traditional with meLê yamomo (PH/NL), ganavya (US) in conversation with Sailesh (INT), and Adela Mede with Marta Forsberg and Nindya Nareswari (INT) in conversation with Ján Solčáni (SK/DE)
• Points of connection to the strand of Affection via softchaos (US/DE)

Discourse programme overview

Daily radio shows with CTM festival artists will feature a range of sounds and voices from Berlin's local community and beyond. With Abdullah Miniawy (EG/FR), Adela Mede, Marta Forsberg, and Nindya Nareswari (INT), ANTCONSTANTINO (BR), Deize Tigrona (BR), Dis Fig (US/DE), gyrofield (HK/UK), Lénok, Grinderteeth and Synthtati (INT), Murderpact (US), rEmPiT g0dDe$$ and LnhD (INT) & more.

Broadcast schedule

This year we will again collect donations together with transmediale to support humanitarian and peacebuilding efforts aimed at the ongoing Israel-Gaza war. Half of the donations will be sent to ALLMEP – the Alliance for Middle East Peace, with whom we partnered last year, while half will be given to Cadus thanks to a new partnership. Keep an eye out for donation boxes at CTM 2025 venue entrances / box offices, and at our festival info counters.

More information & to donate online

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 | Embassy of Sweden

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