CTM Announces 2020 Theme: LIMINAL

Liminal phenomena and liminoid states are transitional phases in which a familiar order sees its values and symbols destabilised; norms are suspended or turned on their heads. Entitled “Liminal," CTM 2020 throws itself into limbo in hopes of stimulating a critical discussion of our present and possible futures. Open calls for the Research Networking Day and Radio Lab (including the special Kontinuum project) are now open.  

› Read more: https://www.ctm-festival.de/liminal/

SHAPE Announces 2020 Open Call

SHAPE platform for innovative music and audiovisual art, supported by the “Creative Europe” programme of the European Union announces a new open call for artist submissions for the 2020 SHAPE artist roster. Applications are welcome until July 31.

› Read more: https://www.shapeplatform.eu/open-call-for-2020/

CHRONOTOPIA Arrives in Athens

CTM Festival is pleased to start a cultural dialogue with Athens. Welcoming both local and international artists, CHRONOTOPIA takes shape on June 20 as a twofold event that is produced in close collaboration with Goethe Institut, club venue Romantso, and Athens-based music labels Modal Analysis and Hypermedium. The next day, on June 21, the Contemporary Music Research Center in Athens (KSYME) will host CTM Festival for a discussion open to the public.

› Read more: https://www.ctm-festival.de/chronotopia/

CTM 2019 MAGAZINE

For Persistence, this year's magazine addresses the resilience of music communities; practices that push back against colonial legacies in music; the role of sonic cultures amidst tumultuous times; and activism in popular music. The 2019 edition unites a range of voices, practices, and ideas in interrogating, examining, and documenting various perspectives on Persistence. Interviews with and essays by individual artists round out the publication.

› Read more: https://www.ctm-festival.de/2019-magazine/

CTM 2019 IN REVIEW

Join us in looking back on CTM's 20 year anniversary. Check below for a collection of international articles, radio broadcasts, and images documenting CTM 2019 Persistence.

› Read more: https://www.ctm-festival.de/ctm-2019-festival-in-review/

RESIDENCY OPPORTUNITY: WSK FESTIVAL MANILA

We are pleased to announce a residency opportunity for Berlin-based artists, within WSK Festival for the Recently Possible (Manila, The Philippines). The residency can take place for up to two months within the timeframe of September and November 2019. It is a collaborative initiative between Nusasonic (a multi-year collaboration between WSK, Yes No Wave (Yogyakarta), Playfreely (Singapore), CTM Festival, and Goethe-Institut, and Musicboard Berlin. Application deadline is 15 March.

› Read more: https://www.musicboard-berlin.de/en/wsk/

RESIDENCY OPPORTUNITY: NYEGE NYEGE KAMPALA

We are pleased to announce a residency opportunity for Berlin-based artists, in collaboration with Nyege Nyege Festival, Musicboard Berlin, and Goethe-Institut. Set in Nyege Nyege's home base of Kampala, Uganda, the residency can take place for up to two months between July and September 2019. Application deadline is 15 March.

› Read more: https://www.musicboard-berlin.de/en/nyege-nyege/

› 24-05-2018

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SHAPE PLATFORM ANNOUNCES 2019 ARTISTS

The artist selection for the platform’s fifth year traditionally places a number of audiovisual projects and sound artists alongside musical acts that range from post-grime and techno to free improvisation and acousmatic music.

› Read more: https://shapeplatform.eu/

NUSASONIC AT CTM 2019

In recent years, CTM has been increasingly building and intensifying truly mutual collaborations with like-minded partners around the globe. Thanks to Nusasonic, the newest and biggest collaboration to date, a large number of musicians and projects from Southeast Asia will be featured in the CTM 2019 programme.

› Read more: https://www.ctm-festival.de/nusasonic-at-ctm/

SET X CTM Festival in Tehran

Following the SET X CTM edition in Tehran in 2018, the festival's special commissions will make their Berlin debuts at CTM 2019. 9T Antiope and Rainer Kohlberger present the Berlin debut of their collaboration Nocebo. Following from his collaborative performance at SET X CTM with Rabih Beaini, Pouja Pour-Amin brings his ensemble (featuring Deniz Tafaghody and Daniele De Santis) to this year’s festival. Sote graces Berghain with a special live hardcore set, and Temp-Illusion join the Bassiani x CTM opening club night.

› Read more: https://www.ctm-festival.de/set-x-ctm/

CTM 2019 RADIO LAB WINNERS

Two winning projects have been selected from an open call for the CTM 2019 Radio Lab. The organisers would like to thank everyone who took the time to submit their proposals, which totalled 175 entries from 43 countries, and collectively addressed the call’s themes and challenges from a wide and interesting array of perspectives. Awarded by Deutschlandfunk Kultur – Radio Art/Klangkunst and CTM Festival, in collaboration with ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst festival, Ö1 Kunstradio, and The Wire magazine, the CTM 2019 Radio Lab open call is awarded to Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman and Israel Martínez.

› Read more: https://www.ctm-festival.de/radio-lab/

ANNOUNCING NUSASONIC: CROSSING AURAL GEOGRAPHIES

We're excited to announce Nusasonic, a multi-year project that plunges into a broad spectrum of experimental sound and music cultures in Southeast Asia, and enabling dialogue within the region, with Europe, and beyond. Adopting a multi-perspective approach, the project is collaboratively created by Yes No Klub (Yogyakarta), WSK Festival of the Recently Possible (Manila), Playfreely/BlackKaji (Singapore), and CTM Festival, and supported by Goethe-Institut Indonesia. It kicks off 2–13 October 2018 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, with artists such as AGF, Caliph8 Cheryl Ong, Kok Siew Wai, Dangerdope, Erick Calilan & Duto Hardono, Fauxe, Gabber Modus Operandi, Jessica Ekomane, Jogja Noise Bomging, mobilegirl, Nadah el Shazly, N.M.O., Peter Kirn, Lintang Radittya, Andreas Siagian, Sote, Uwalmassa, Yennu Ariendra & J Mo’ong Santoso Pribadi & many more.

› Read more: https://www.ctm-festival.de/nusasonic/

CTM 2019 DATES AND THEME

CTM is turning 20! The festival will take place from 25 January to 3 February 2019 at various Berlin venues, including longtime partners Berghain, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, and Kunstquartier Bethanien. Under the title Persistence, CTM 2019 examines the aesthetic and societal potentials and pains of perseverance, and of its opposite: the transient and the provisional, and considers the struggles that come with balancing continuity and changeability.

› Read more: https://www.ctm-festival.de/persistence/

SET X CTM Festival in Tehran

CTM joins forces with Tehran's annual experimental music festival SET for an event dedicated entirely to artistic dialogue between Tehran and Berlin. Entitled SET X CTM, the 5-day festival takes place 26-30 July 2018 at various venues in Tehran, and will see the premiere of two new commissions that bring together artists from the two cities alongside a string of performances and workshops by Berlin-based and Iranian artists. 

› Read more: https://www.ctm-festival.de/set-x-ctm/

SHAPE PLATFORM ANNOUNCES SHOWCASE AT NYEGE NYEGE FESTIVAL

The SHAPE platform will showcase a selection of its 2019 supported artists at a showcase at Nyege Nyebe festival in Jinja, Uganda, including Bonaventure, JASSS, Nkisi, and Sarah Farina. This edition of Nyege Nyege will also be a meeting place for representatives from the SHAPE platform’s 16 member festivals, inviting exchange and new collaborations with the local Ugandan scene.

› Read more: http://shapeplatform.eu/nyege-nyege-festival/

A SELECTION OF TALKS AND PANELS FROM CTM 2018 ARE ONLINE

A selection of talks and panels from the CTM 2018 Discourse programme are available to stream via the CTM Festival SoundCloud and, for the first time, YouTube. Among the highlights are artist talks with Drew McDowall, ZULI, Olaf Nicolai, panels with both old and new generation hardcore/gabber artists including DJ Panic, Marc Acardipane, and Kilbourne, Pedro Oliveira's investigation into the jukeboxes of Rio de Janeiro as important sonic indicators of violence, presentations from the Research Networking Day, and a panel on the Sound of China's Underground.

› Discourse 2018 in audio: https://soundcloud.com/ctm-festival/sets/ctm-2018-turmoil-lectures

› Discourse 2018 in video: https://www.youtube.com/user/DISKCTM/videos

 

 

CTM 2018 MAGAZINE AVAILABLE AT MOTTO

The CTM 2018 magazine, a publication investigating various topics related to the 19th edition's Turmoil theme, is still available for purchase. Both this issue and past issues starting with 2014's Dis Continuity edition can be bought in-store or ordered online from Motto in Berlin.

› Read more: https://www.ctm-festival.de/ctm-magazine-2018/

CTM 2018 IN REVIEW

Join us in looking back on a breathless ten days of turmoil and its creative repercussions. Check below for a collection of international articles, radio broadcasts, and images documenting the stimulating 2018 edition of CTM.

› Read more: https://www.ctm-festival.de/ctm-2018-turmoil-review/

› 28-09-2017

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BEBEETHOVEN KICKS OFF IN BERLIN

What radical changes in music will characterize the 21st century? On the occasion of the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the most innovative and influential composers of his epoch, the #bebeethoven project invites twelve young artists to explore such questions by developing, testing and presenting artistic experiments and projects. Together with project lead PODIUM Esslingen and six renowned partners – CTM Festival, Ensemble Resonance, Operadagen Rotterdam, Radialsystem V, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, and ZKM Karlsruhe – these twelve fellows will experiment with new technologies and develop aesthetic innovations. CTM Festival has invited Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst to become fellows. The duo will research and develop ideas to expand the human voice with future technology, and actively push forward critical discourse reflecting the implications of such technologies. A Berlin Kick-off event will take place Friday 6 October at Silent Green starting with an afternoon symposium that culminates with a concert in the evening.

› Read more: https://www.ctm-festival.de/projects/bebeethoven/

CTM 2019 RADIO LAB WINNERS

Awarded by Deutschlanfunk Kultur – Radio Art/Klangkunst and CTM Festival, in collaboration with ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst and Ö1 Kunstradio, the CTM 2018 Radio Lab Open Call for works sought unusual ideas for pairing the specific artistic possibilities of radio with the potentials of live performance or installation, that also explore the CTM 2018 Festival theme: Turmoil. This year’s winner, Ahmed El Ghazoly aka ZULI, is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, and sound artist from Cairo, Egypt. He is co-founder of Kairo is Koming (KIK), a collective of six artists credited as being behind the rise of the city’s underground electronic music scene in recent years.

› Read more: https://www.ctm-festival.de/ctm-radio-lab/

› 05-09-2017

www.shapeplatform.eu

SHAPE PLATFORM TO CONTINUE 4 MORE YEARS

After supporting 144 emerging European artists with concert and educational opportunities over the last years, we're happy to announce that the SHAPE platform in which we participate with 15 other festivals will be running for another 4 years! Keep an eye out for new supported artists and events, to be announced early winter. SHAPE is supported by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

› Read more: www.shapeplatform.eu

CTM 2018 RADIO LAB CALL FOR WORKS

The CTM Radio Lab, returning in 2018 for the fifth year in a row, acts as a platform for unusual audio projects that explore the intersection between radio and live performance or installation while also relating to the festival theme. The 2018 commissioned work will premiere in the form of an installation or performance at CTM 2018 before being broadcast in Deutschlandfunk Kultur’s Klangkunst programme and by the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation. The deadline for submissions to our open call is 17 September 2017.

› Read more: www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2018/call-for-works/

CTM 2018 DATES & THEME

Half a year after an energising 2017 Festival, we’ve begun to lay the groundwork for the 19th edition – our last "teenage" festival before we celebrate twenty years of creative exchange and collaboration in 2019. We’re very excited to announce that CTM 2018 will take place from 26 January to 4 February 2018 at various Berlin venues. The new theme is TURMOIL.

› Read more: www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2018/welcome/

BERLIN CURRENT AT MUTEK MONTREAL

CTM's ongoing Berlin Current initiative, which aims to support the city's emerging artists and sounds, visist Montreal's premier electronic music festival. Lotic, N.M.O., Sarah Farina and Dis Fig join forces on a free outdoor stage in the heart of the city, with Montrealers Toboggan and Pelada rounding-out the lineup.

› Read more: www.ctm-festival.de/concerts/calendar/concert/calendar/2017/08/26/berlin-current-mutek/

CTM VISITS OUTERNATIONAL DAYS

CTM Festival collaborates with the Outernational Days in Bucharest to present "Everything Visible Is Empty", a new live project by Rabih Beaini in collaboration with Mazen Kerbaj, Raed Yassin, Diana Miron, and Bogdana Dima. Following an unexplored cultural path, the project taking place July 8 at The Ark, will highlight an unpredictable confrontation of artistic forces between some of the most forward-thinking contemporary musicians from Beirut and Bucharest. The Outernational Days are a 3-day festival dedicated to musical voices from the periphery, organized in the second year by The Attic.

› Read more: www.ctm-festival.de/concerts/calendar/concert/calendar/2017/07/08/rabih-beaini-everything-visible-is-empty/

CTM 2017 MAGAZINES AVAILABLE

The CTM 2017 magazine, a publication investigating various topics related to the 18th edition's Fear Anger Love theme, is still available for purchase. Both this issue and past issues starting with 2014's Dis Continuity edition can be bought in-store or ordered online from Motto in Berlin.

› Read more: www.ctm-festival.de/projects/ctm-magazine/ctm-magazine/2017-fear-anger-love/

› 21-03-2017

› https://soundcloud.com/ctm-festival/sets/ctm-2017-fear-anger-love

STREAM CTM 2017 DISCOURSE RECORDINGS

A selection of talks and panels from the CTM 2017 Discourse programme are available to stream via our CTM Festival SoundCloud page. Among the highlights are artist talks with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Moor Mother & Rasheedah Phillips, Emily Hodge's "Health vs Hedonism" talk on how to stay balanced in the music industry and madison moore leading a panel titled "Against Neutrality: Where can a Decolonised Dancefloor Go?"

› Read more: https://soundcloud.com/ctm-festival/sets/ctm-2017-fear-anger-love

CTM 2017 EXHIBITION RUNS UNTIL 20 MARCH

The CTM 2017 exhibition, "Critical Constellations of the Audio-Machine in Mexico" runs daily until Sunday 19 March at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien. Presented free of charge, it takes as its focus the history and current state of electronic music and sound art in Mexico, guiding visitors through the various different musical styles and sound experiments that have emerged in the country since the beginning of the 20th century. 

“Constellations of the Audio-Machine in Mexico” at CTM 2017 is funded by the FONCA (National Fund for the Arts and Culture, Mexico), AMEXCID (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico / Dual year Mexico-Germany program) and Fundación Cultural Bancomer.

› Read more: www.ctm-festival.de/archive/festival-editions/ctm-2017-fearangerlove/transfer/exhibition/

CTM 2017 IN REVIEW

Join us in looking back on a stimulating and thought-provoking 2017 edition. Here is an ever-growing collection of articles, radio broadcasts, and images documenting the energetic 10 days.

› Read more: www.ctm-festival.de/archive/festival-editions/ctm-2017-fearangerlove/welcome/ctm-2017-festival-in-review/

SIGN UP FOR GANZFELD'S GUERILLA INTERVENTIONS

Duo Ganzfeld (trumpet player and sound artist Liz Allbee and guitarist and instrument builder Sukandar Kartadinata) will present several guerilla audio spatialization interventions, at surprise times and locations throughout the rest of the festival. Their interventions will , as Allbee and Kartadinata radiate these instrumental voices into space through the use of their homemade dispersive audio system, which consists of wireless, luminescent adhesive transducer speakers with built-in multi-channel radio receivers. If you wish to be updated on when and where the guerilla events will take place, send an email to ganzfeld(at)ctm-festival.de.

Their intervention is supported by ENCAC, as one of the network's 2017 comissioned works. Funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

› Read more: www.ctm-festival.de/archive/festival-editions/ctm-2017-fearangerlove/specials/guerilla-spatialization-unit/

› 05-12-2016

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SHAPE X CTM 2017

A 3-year initiative co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, the SHAPE platform reunites 16 European non-profit organisations active within the ICAS – International Cities of Advanced Sound network to create a platform that aims to support, promote and exchange innovative and aspiring emergent musicians and interdisciplinary artists with an interest in sound. The organisations support a total of 144 artists over a three-year period that began in 2015.

SHAPE presents its third year at CTM 2017 with a Meet and Greet at the Projektraum of the Kunstquartier Bethanien. All interested artists, professionals, and the general public are welcome to come meet SHAPE coordinators. A few days later, the Network Speed Dating event assembles a selection of SHAPE platform organisers alongside curators and organisers from other events and networks, to meet in short, one-on-one sessions with pre-registered participants. This is a great chance to present your work and to find out more about the diverse festivals and events that collaborate to make SHAPE happen!

Public sessions at the MusicMakers Hacklab round out the SHAPE platform's involvement in the CTM 2017 Discourse programme.

CTM 2017 will also feature performances by a wealth of different SHAPE-supported artists over its ten-day schedule of events: Norwegian Coméme family member Charlotte Bendiks, fellow Norwegian and friend Boska, the Gobstopper Records founder and instrumental grime zealot Miles Mitchell or Mr. Mitch, Dutch composer/performer Thomas Ankersmit, Austrian composer and sound performer Stefan Fraunberger, Norwegian vocalist Stine Janvin Motland, futurist duo Amnesia Scanner, who’ve helped provide music for the project Lexachast; the "military fluxus" duo N.M.O.; the electronic/psychedelic folk project Stara Rzeka; Belgian sci-fi mistress Sky H1, and Swedish Staycore darling Toxe.

The SHAPE platform is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

› Read more: www.ctm-festival.de/archive/festival-editions/ctm-2017-fearangerlove/specials/shape-x-ctm-2017/

› 26-10-2016

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CALL FOR CTM 2017 HACKLAB AND RESEARCH NETWORKING DAY

The MusicMakers Hacklab will celebrate its 5th year this January 2017 at CTM Festival! Led by Peter Kirn (CDM) and co-host Byrke Lou, this collaborative, experimental environment facilitates working together to conceive and realise new ideas in a week of intense activity. An open call for this year's "Emotional Invention" theme is now up, with an application deadline of 30 November.

The Research Networking Day is a yearly CTM initiative co-organised with Humboldt University's Department of Musicology. This open call seeks innovative and critical submissions from students and researchers in all areas of study traversing the fields of audio, media art, design, and related theoretical disciplines. Presentations should be connected to the CTM 2017 Theme – Fear Anger Love. Application deadline: 30 November.

› Read more on Hacklab: www.ctm-festival.de/archive/festival-editions/ctm-2017-fearangerlove/transfer/musicmakers-hacklab
› Read more on Research Networking Day: www.ctm-festival.de/archive/festival-editions/ctm-2017-fearangerlove/transfer/research-networking-day

› 17-10-2016

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ENCAC AUDIOVISUAL NETWORK ANNOUNCES 6 WINNING PROJECTS

The European Network for Contemporary Audiovisual Creation (ENCAC) is pleased to announce this year’s winners of their annual open call. Totalling 186 submitted projects from 34 countries, a wide range of approaches from developers, performers, visual artists, film makers, choreographers and musicians, composers and sound artists presented their particular visions of the potential for audiovisual creativity in cross-disciplinary fields.

Winning projects are: “ÆTEROFONER” by Christian Skjødt, “Embodied Gestures” by Enrique Tomás, “Manufactory” by Transforma, “Permafrost” by Adam Basanta and Gil Delindro, “Aeryon” by Maotic and “Soft Probe” by Matthew Biederman and Marko Peljhan. Each of the 6 winning artists will be awarded a residency at one of the following institutions: Avatar, Quebec, CTM Festival DISK, Berlin, hTh Montpellier, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón and Le Lieu Unique, Nantes.

› Read more: www.ctm-festival.de/news/encac-audiovisual-network-announces-6-winning-projects/

RIMA NAJDI & JULIAN BONEQUI WIN 2017 RADIO LAB CALL

Awarded by Deutschlandradio Kultur – Hörspiel/Klangkunst and CTM Festival, in collaboration with Goethe-Institut, ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst, Ö1 Kunstradio, and the SoCCoS – the Sound of Culture, the Culture of Sound initiative, the CTM 2017 Radio Lab Open Call for works sought unusual ideas for pairing the specific artistic possibilities of radio with the potentials of live performance or installation, that also explore the CTM 2017 Festival theme: Fear Anger Love.

The Death of the Anthropocene” by Mexican artist Julian Bonequi imagined encounters with mysterious mutants, composite human-robot-animals, aliens… all met with aggression, shock and disbelief as they paint grim pictures of the future of humanity. The conversations, animated with narration, incidental sounds and specially composed musical extracts, were accompanied by Bonequi’s own 3D animation.

In 2014, Rima Najdi performed “Madame Bomba: The TNT project” in her hometown of Beirut. To open a conversation about anxiety and fear caused by pervasive violence everywhere she wore a fake cartoon TNT bomb while roaming the streets. Taking off from this action, “Happy New Fear” blends experimental music and sound sourced in Beirut by Kathy Alberici, visual projections by Ana Nieves Moya, and live narration by Najdi as it follows Madame Bomba and her search for her lover in the city, a stranger who exists in the collective consciousness and of whom everyone is afraid of.

The CTM 2017 Radio Lab is supported by the Goethe-Institut, and the SoCCoS – The Sound of Culture, The Culture of Sound initiative that is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. Media partner: The Wire

› Read more: http://www.ctm-festival.de/news/rima-najdi-and-julian-bonequi-win-ctm-2017-radio-lab-call

BERLIN CURRENT ENTERS YEAR 4

Established in 2013, CTM’s Berlin Current initiative taps into the city’s sprawling landscape of unconventional pop and electronic music hybrids to map out its current expansion of musical diversity, and to support emerging Berlin-based acts and artists. A range of Berlin Current supported events are upcoming this fall, including two collaborations with Unsound (in Vladivostok and at the festival's home edition in Krakow), a showcase produced with Lunchmeat in Prague, and input into CTM's Polymorphism event in October at Berghain. Have a look at artists and projects that have been supported by the initiative.

› Read more: www.ctm-festival.de/projects/berlin-current/berlin-current/

CTM GOES TO PRAGUE

CTM has been invited to create the programme for the second edition of Music Ports, a project that provides a platform for gaining qualifications needed to operate in the field of electronic music. The daytime programme of workshops and seminars will take place on 16 September, and is complemented by a Berlin Current club night at Prague’s Neone club. Produced together with Lunchmeat, the lineup features artists group A, Guido Möbius, mobilegirl, Mechatok, Opium Hum, Machine Woman, GSMTKNSTWRK and others.

› Event information: www.ctm-festival.de/concerts/calendar/concert/2016/09/16/programme/event/music-ports/

CALL FOR WORKS - CTM 2017 RADIO LAB

For the fourth year in a row, the CTM 2017 Radio Lab calls for unusual audio projects that couple the radio medium with the potential of live performance or installation while also relating to the CTM 2017 Festival theme: FEAR ANGER LOVE. The two commissioned works will premiere in the form of an installation or live performance at CTM 2017, before being broadcasted in Deutschlandradio Kultur’s Klangkunst programme and by the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation. The deadline is 28. August 2016.

› To apply: www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2017/call-for-works/

CTM 2017 THEME AND DATES

Following the outstanding success of the 2016 Festival and its all-time record of 35,000 guests we are delighted to announce the dates and themes of the forthcoming 18th edition: CTM 2017 will take place from 27 January to 5 February 2017 at various Berlin venues, adopting the theme FEAR ANGER LOVE.

› More information: www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2017/ctm-2017/

OPEN CALL FOR 6 AUDIOVISUAL RESIDENCIES

ENCAC (European Network for Contemporary Audiovisual Creation) offers six research and/or production residencies with CTM Festival (Berlin), humainTROPhumain (Montpellier), LABoral (L.E.V Festival, Gijón), Avatar (Quebec) and le lieu unique (Nantes). Taking place over a period of November 2016 to May 2017, the call searches for creative and innovative artistic projects and research within the fields and at the cross-sections of sound, visuals, music, performing arts and digital culture. Artists may apply for more than one preferred residency location until the 15 June deadline.

› More information and to apply: www.laboralcentrodearte.org/en/r/convocatorias/ii-convo-encac/

CTM 2016 DISCOURSE PROGRAMME ONLINE

The 2016 Discourse programme was developed with numerous partners. Together with Norient, certain modules present a range of contributors to the "Seismographic Sounds. Visions of a New World" exhibition presented within the festival, including Adam Harper, Meira Asher, Chris Saunders, Fokn Bois, Wendy Hsu, Sarah Abunama-Elgadi and many more. Invaluable contributions from the Humboldt University's Chair of Trans-cultural Musicology, DAAD, and Deutschlandradio Kultur/Klangkunst complete the programme, which runs from 30.1. - 6.2.2016 daily at the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien.

› Programme information: www.ctm-festival.de/archive/festival-editions/ctm-2016-new-geographies/transfer/discourse/

FULL CTM 2016 PROGRAMME ANNOUNCED

Le1f, OG Maco, Jlin, Rødhåd, Visionist and many more are joined by Vincent Moon and a commissioned work by Rabih Beaini for the Opening Concert, an night dedicated to Ana-Maria Avram and Iancu Dumitrescu with Hyperion Ensemble and Stephen O'Malley, Christoph Schlingensief’s “African Twin Towers” re-played by Hanno Leichtmann & Carolin Brandl, Anna Homler & Steven Warwick presenting “Breadwoman”, and Love Cult & Alina Filippova with their new film performance "Nada". On top of these diverse musical acts, Mexican artist Pedro Reyes joins the exhibition with his stunning transformation of drug war weapones into musical instruments in a work titled, “Disarm (Mechanized)".

› Programme overview: www.ctm-festival.de/archive/festival-editions/ctm-2016-new-geographies/programme/calendar/night/

CTM 2016 RADIO LAB WINNERS ANNOUNCED

The two winning projects will be premiered at CTM 2016 Festival in Berlin (29.01. 07.02.2016), and broadcast via Deutschlandradio Kultur (March 2016).

› More information: www.ctm-festival.de/news/mbj-wetware-jg-biberkopf-and-deena-abdelwahed-selected-for-ctm-2016-radio-lab/

EVELINA DOMNITCH AND DMITRY GELFAND TO PRODUCE NEW WORK FOR CTM 2016

Four other residencies, supported via the European Network for Contemporary Audiovisual Creation (ENCAC), will also take place at other ENCAC partners from January - April 2016 with winning artists Ganzfeld (US), Alan Warburton (UK), Myriam Bleau (CA), and Tokuyama Tomonaga and Wladimir Schall (JP/FR).

› More information: www.ctm-festival.de/news/evelina-domnitch-and-dmitry-gelfand-to-produce-new-av-work-for-ctm-2016/

PROGRAMME FOR CTM SIBERIA ANNOUNCED

We are excited to announce the lineup for the CTM edition in Siberia this September. A project initiated in collaboration with the Goethe Institut Novosibirsk and in close cooperation with Evgeny Gavrilov (Novosibirsk), who publishes under the pseudonym Dyad and is part of the Echotourist network, and Stanislav Sharifullin (Krasnoyarsk), who makes music under his hmot moniker, the edition will feature a multi-day programme held in various venues in both Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk. The project aims to foster exchange between local and other Russian artists and artists based in Berlin and Germany at large. The stacked lineup includes Robert Henke, Olaf Bender, Helena Hauff, Lorenzo Senni, and many Siberian and Russian artists. Tickets available now.

› More information: siberia.ctm-festival.de/about/

CTM 2016 RADIO LAB CALL NOW OPEN

Deutschlandradio Kultur – Radio Drama / Klangkunst and CTM Festival, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, the SoCCoS – Sound of Culture, Culture of Sound network, Ö1 Kunstradio, and ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst are pleased to release a third call for artistic projects seeking unusual ideas for coupling the medium radio with the potentials of live performance or installation, while also relating to the CTM 2016 Festival theme: New Geographies.

› More information and to apply: www.ctm-festival.de/archive/festival-editions/ctm-2016-new-geographies/specials/radio-lab/

CTM 2016 DATES AND THEME

From January 29 - February 7, 2015, CTM 2016 – New Geographies aims to present a range of artistic forms from the present and recent past in order to explore the central roles that today's ever more globalized and digitized hybridity and relational geography plays in the global music scene. Including curatorial contributions from Rabih Beanini (aka Morphosis) and the Swiss-based the Norient network, the return of both the MusicMakers Hacklab and CTM Radio Lab, as well as the usual extensive daytime Discourse programme, New Geographies aims to provide the conceptual tools needed to approach the complexities of a polycentric, polychromatic, and increasingly hybrid (music) world with greater openness.

› More information: www.ctm-festival.de/archive/festival-editions/ctm-2016-new-geographies/

OPEN CALL FOR 5 AUDIOVISUAL RESIDENCIES

Audiovisual researchers, practitioners, and creators are invited to apply to one of 5 residencies taking place within the European Network for Contemporary Audiovisual Creation (ENCAC). Deadline 12 August.

› More information and to apply: www.ctm-festival.de/news/open-call-for-5-audiovisual-research-and-creation-residencies/

THIRD EDITION OF BERLIN CURRENT TAKES OFF

Continuing its mission to support the city's emerging sounds, Berlin Current launches into its third consecutive year with performances by Lumisokea, Lotic, and KABLAM at Malmö's Intonal Festival in April, as well as Lumisokea and Dasha Rush's live AV project "Antarctic Takt" with Stanislav Glazov at MUTEK Montreal in May. More events as well as 2015 supported artists will be announced soon!

› Read more: www.ctm-festival.de/projects/berlin-current/berlin-current/

CTM 2015 DISCOURSE PROGRAMME IS UP

Lectures and roundtables ranging from archaeoacoustics to alien agency, public presentations within the MusicMakers Hacklab, artist talks, networking activities, and more.

› Read more: www.ctm-festival.de/archive/festival-editions/ctm-2015-un-tune/transfer/discourse/

CTM 2015 MUSIC PROGRAMME FINALISED

Sophie, Teki Latex, Maelstrom, PC Music's Danny L. Harle, a new collaboration between Frank Bretschneider & Pierce Warnecke, Gert-Jan Prins & Martijn van Boven, Gábor Lázar, and more

› Read more: www.ctm-festival.de/news/ctm-2015-music-programme-finalized/

ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF THE CTM 2015 RADIO LAB CALL FOR WORKS

Awarded by Deutschlandradio Kultur – Hörspiel/Klangkunst and CTM Festival, in collaboration with Goethe-Institut, ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst, Ö1 Kunstradio, and the ECAS/ICAS – International Cities for Advanced Sound, the CTM 2015 Radio Lab Open Call for works sought unusual ideas for pairing the specific artistic possibilities of radio with the potentials of live performance or installation, that also explore the CTM 2015 Festival theme: Un Tune – Exploring Sonic Affect. Selected from 192 submissions, the winning proposals are "ASMR: Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response – Algorithmic Variations I and II" from Berlin-based American Claire Tolan, and "In the Darkness of the World" from Mexico-based Argentinian Sol Rezza.

Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal!

› Read more about the winning proposals here: http://www.ctm-festival.de/news/announcing-the-winners-of-the-ctm-2015-radio-lab-open-call-for-works/

WINNERS ANNOUNCED FOR THE ECAS ARTISTIC DOCUMENTARY CALL

European Cities of Advanced Sound and related arts (ECAS), an ICAS network project involving nine partner festivals from Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, UK, Norway, Latvia, Poland and Austria, is excited to announce the winning proposal selected for its commission opportunity. The winning proposal, Sounds Fragmenting Our Present Tense, was submitted by Nathan Budzinski and Theo Cook.

Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal!

› Read more about the winning proposal here: http://icasnetwork.org/announcement-ecas-artistic-documentary/

› 15-07-2014

www.disk-agency.de/about/

INTRODUCING DISK AGENCY

We have long put our broad range of skills at service to support likeminded cultural projects. Now we've decided to recap these activities under a common roof: Combining 15 years of experience developed from organizing Berlin's annual CTM Festival as well as through the projects and operations of the festival's host organization DISK Berlin, DISK Agency aims to further encourage the production and diffusion of experimental sound art, innovative music, and visual arts, as well as to sustain DISK's longstanding relationship with likeminded festivals, venues, concert agencies, cultural bodies, and local and international nonprofit initiatives.

Visit the DISK Agency website

CTM 2015 - UN TUNE

The 16th edition of CTM - Festival for Adventurous Music and Art, will take place January 23 - February 1, 2015 and returns to diverse venues such as HAU - Hebbel am Ufer, Berghain, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, and Stattbad.

Under the title Un Tune, CTM 2015 aims to engage with the direct bodily effects of frequencies, sound, and music, as well as these phenomena’s synergistic effects with other sensory stimuli. Artistic experimentation with the affective and somatic effects of sounds and frequencies opens up possibilities of tuning and de-tuning the composite that interconnects body, matter, energy, and (musical) machines – and of exploring our perception. More information on the theme here.

The festival’s mix of concerts and club events will once again be supported by an extensive daytime programme of talks, workshops, exhibitions, and more. As always, CTM festival will be held parallel to and in collaboration with transmediale – festival for art and digital culture, which takes place from 28 January – 1 February 2015 at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

The first CTM 2015 artist announcement will be published in October. In the meantime, we invite interested artists to submit proposals to the CTM 2015 Radio Lab call for works exploring hybrid live/radio formats.

Artists are also invited to submit ideas and proposals for festival performances or presentations via our general email. Please note that we are unable to reply to all inquiries due to the high volume of emails received.

› 28-06-2014

musikprotokoll.orf.at

DISK COLLABORATES ON TWO PROJECTS TO BE PRESENTED AT ORF MUSIKPROTOKOLL IM STEIRISCHEN HERBST

October sees two projects supported by DISK visit the ORF musikprotokoll im Steirischen Herbst festival. Both ICAS network projects, the artistic works were commissioned by the framework of ECAS – Networking Tomorrow‘s Art for An Unknown Future.

In Search of the Future of Radio

What surprises does radio hold in store for us? Radio activists and artists in Graz team up with ∏-node to create a multi-dimensional radio infrastructure platform that explores the narrative, participative, and imaginary possibilities of radio through the use of both historic and new, digital technologies.

One of the winners of the CTM 2014 Radio Lab call for works, ∏-node have continued their work since the project's premiere showing in Berlin this past January. The latest iteration of the platform will set-up residence for the duration of the musikprotokoll festival, as a temporary social space where visitors are given free rein to their creativity. The group of local and ∏-node artists/activists will experiment with a wide range of cutting-edge and older technologies with the aim of enabling reflection on the basic historical and societal conditions of radio.

More information

 

Let's Merry-Go-Round!

The carousel – an object of yearning from childhood days. Once in motion, its centrifugal force elicits screams of joy. Although the carousel at musikprotokoll looks like the ones in days of old, every ride takes you to a different acoustic present and, at the same time, to a new world of sound. The pieces can only be heard and felt while our bodies are revolving.

A work created within the ECAS (European and International Cities of Advanced Sound) project, the carousel has seen artists from all over create works for its special environment. CTM has been invited by partner festival musikprotokoll to contribute to setting the carousel in musical motion. In turn, CTM has sought-out sound and video artist Pierce Warnecke to join into this merry-go-round for advanced players.

More information

 


∏-node was selected via 2014's “Ubiquitous Art and Sound” open call co-commission, a collaboration between Deutschlandradio Kultur – Hörspiel/Klangkunst, Goethe-Institut, ICAS, ECAS, musikprotokoll, and CTM Festival.

Commissioned by musikprotokoll within the framework of ECAS – Networking Tomorrow‘s Art for An Unknown Future, working period 4 “Tools For An Unknown Future”. In cooperation with Skaņu Mežs, Insomnia, Cimatics, TodaysArt, Unsound, CYNETART, FutureEverything & CTM Festival.

CTM 2015 RADIO LAB - CALL FOR WORKS

Following a great response to last year’s open call for works, Deutschlandradio Kultur – Hörspiel/ Klangkunst and CTM Festival, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst, Ö1 Kunstradio and the ECAS/ICAS networks, are pleased to release a second call for artistic projects seeking unusual ideas for coupling the medium radio with the potentials of live performance or installation, while also relating to the CTM 2015 Festival theme: Un Tune – Exploring Sonic Affect.

The call is open to artists in the fields of experimental music, sound art, radio art, new radio drama, and performance. Two chosen commissioned works will be presented as a Deutschlandradio Kultur – Klangkunst broadcast and premiered as a performance or installation at CTM 2015 Festival in Berlin (23 January – 1 February 2015). The works will also be presented by the Österreichischer Rundfunk (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation) via one of their platforms (depending on the character of the works): the ORF Zeit-Ton or Ö1 Kunstradio radio shows, or the ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst festival in Graz.

Proposed projects should result in 40-55 minute long radio versions.

A special note that last year’s winning projects, selected from over 300 submissions, will once again be presented live in the fall of 2014 as a performance or radio broadcast. The French radio collective ∏-node will partner-up with local radio activists and artists during the ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst festival, to create an experimental radio laboratory in the festival’s host city of Graz, Austria (7–12 October). On 10 October the group will visit the studio for a live broadcast on Ö1 Zeit-Ton extended. "Walk That Sound" by Serbian artist Lukatoyboy will be aired on 12 October via the ORF Ö1 Kunstradio programme.

Application deadline is 31. August 2014.

› More information and to apply: http://www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2015/radio-lab-call/

COMMISSION OPPORTUNITY - ARTISTIC DOCUMENTARY FOR ECAS

European Cities of Advance Sound and Related Arts (ECAS), an ICAS network project that involved 9 partner festivals from Germany, Poland, Latvia, Austria, Belgium, The Netherlands, UK, and Norway and that includes CTM Festival, is looking for a critical / experimental artist or artist collective to create an artistic, outsider documentary.

Submission deadline for proposals is 31 August 2014.

› More information and to apply: ecasnetwork.org/blog/commission-opportunity-for-artistic-documentary-deadline-31-07-2014/

ICAS CONFERENCE @ COMMUNIKEY FESTIVAL 2014

ICAS – International Cities for Advanced Sound is a network of likeminded independent festivals around the globe, that works to foster collaboration and exchange within experimental arts and music.

ICAS will hold its annual network meeting at Communikey Festival in Boulder, Colorado, with a one-day public “New Tools for an Unknown Future” sympoisum that launches the festival on Wednesday 10 April 2014. Through a mix of keynotes, presentations, panels, and public discussion, the Symposium aims to examine how artists and cultural workers may cope with an unknown future using the tools that have been developed so far.

More information
Facebook event

 


The ICAS Symposium @ Communikey 2014 was supported by the ECAS - Networking Tomorrow's Art for an Unknown Future project, itself funded by the European Union within the Culture Programme.

› 25-02-2014

www.ctm-festival.de

REVIEW: CTM 2014 - DIS CONTINUITY

The 15th anniversary edition of CTM took place from 24 January – 2 February 2014 in various Berlin venues including HAU – Hebbel am Ufer, Berghain, Stattbad, West Germany, Where is Jesus? Temporary Space, and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien.

Entitled Dis Continuity, CTM 2014 focused on hidden connections between past and present musical experimentation by fostering dialogue between musical pioneers whose ideas and discoveries continue to influence how we create and experience music today, and a rising young generation of artists. Adopting a less hierarchical approach, Dis Continuity reconstructed and re-imagined select threads of experimental and electronic music history. Thus it illuminated and contributed to a gradual evolution towards an increasingly open and dynamic concept of music that transgresses the barriers between scientific research, art, pop, academic culture, and various forms of artistic practice.

Widespread access to archival materials currently sparks new, creative ways of interacting with the past that challenge concepts of history and how it is transmitted. The 10-day CTM 2014 festival could at best only begin to convey an idea of how we can play with and (re)shape the ways that individual and collectives stories and ideas can be relayed.

Over 200 artists and professionals from 33 different countries contributed to over 180 performances and projects that made up the CTM 2014 programme, which also included an 8-day Transfer programme that encompassed the Discourse series of artist talks and film screenings, a collaborative MusicMaker’s Hacklab for music technology, contributions from Universities via performances and an Education Networking Day. The 15th edition featured several premieres of commissioned works, either through CTM’s new Berlin Current programme or through the CTM 2014 Radio Lab. This edition also hosted an installation and exhibition, both of which ran long past the festival.

As always, the CTM festival was held in parallel to and in collaboration with transmediale – festival for art and digital culture which took place at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. The weekend before the festivals, CTM and transmediale’s P2P Vorspiel.

Festival documentation of the festival can be found via the CTM 2014 Press Review, the CTM 2014 Flickr Gallery, and through a collection of audio exceprts, videos, and photos posted by collaborators and friends.

ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF THE UBIQUITOUS ART & SOUND CALL FOR WORKS

Awarded by Deutschlandradio Kultur/Klangkunst, Goethe-Institut, ICAS – International Cities for Advanced Sound, ECAS – European Cities for Advanced Sound, and CTM festival, the “Ubiquitous Art and Sound” Open Call for works sought unusual ideas for pairing the specific artistic possibilities of radio with the potentials of live performance or installation, that also explores the omnipresence of sound in our everyday lives.

First of all, the above organizers would first like to thank everyone who took the time to submit their proposals, which totalled an impressive of 292 submissions from 49 different countries, and collectively addressed the call’s themes and challenges from a wide and interesting array of perspectives. The two final chosen proposals stood out in their approach of combining radio and live performance, as well as for their spirit of inclusiveness and collaboration. The experimental nature of both projects leaves much to the imagination, and we look forward to witnessing how they develop into their final presentations.

The first selected proposal, entitled Π-Node, comes from the French network of artists and hackers affiliated with projects such as Dorkbot, Le Placard, and Artkillart among others. Gathering international media artists and radio activists at the CTM Festival in Berlin and the musikprotokoll festival in Graz, the network proposes to produce an alternative Internet & radio hybrid broadcast system that explores and rethinks the radio format at the age of the Internet. The project’s open participation system also invites festival audiences/the general public to interact with radio emitters and transceivers hidden throughout various festival venues and locations, effectively using Berlin and Graz as checkerboards of a urban radio game. As explained by Susanna Niedermayr (ORF Ö1 / musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst): “P.Node creatively uses and presents a vast variety of different technologies and examines their interconnectivity, while questioning the role of radio itself. Both the strong cooperative character of the project and its openness provide the possibility to connect likeminded networks, bringing local artists in touch with likeminded artists from other countries.”

The second selected project, Walk That Sound, by Serbian artist Luka Ivanovic (alias Lukatoyboy), uses the commonplace yet often forgotten walkie-talkie to create a moving urban sound portrait. The project plays with the array of available and free frequencies, and the almost unlimited amount of users that can interact over these different channels, to capture crackling dialogues ranging from the banal to extremely urgent, as well as the multitude of sounds captured by chance while participants rove around the city as “mobile scouts”. “Luka Ivanovic proposes a unique way of coupling radio transmission and live performance by initiating an audio circuit with handheld walkie talkies. This basic radio technology incites an unusual artistic communication through and about sound.” - Marcus Gammel (Deutschlandradio Kultur)

These two works will be presented both as a Deutschlandradio Kultur and ORF Ö1 broadcast, as well as a program within the CTM Festival in Berlin (24.01.-02.02.2014), and the ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst festival in Graz (Autumn 2014).

The jury consisted of:

Marcus Gammel (Editor for sound art and radio drama Klangkunst/Hörspiel at Deutschlandradio Kultur)
Susanna Niedermayr (ORF Ö1 / musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst)
Jan Rohlf (Artistic & Managing Director, CTM Festival)
Patti Schmidt (Curator, MUTEK Festival)
Chris Bohn (Editor, The Wire)
Thomas Köner (Artist)

› 15-9-2013

www.ctm-festival.de

CTM 2014 - DIS CONTINUITY

The 14th edition of the CTM Festival, organized by DISK e.V. and DISK/CTM GbR, will take place from 24 January - 2 February 2014. Under the title, Dis Continuity, CTM 2014 focuses on hidden connections between past and present musical experimentation by fostering dialogue between musical pioneers whose ideas and discoveries continue to influence how we create and experience music today, and a rising young generation of artists. 

The HAU - Hebbel am Ufer theatre, Berghain, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, and Stattbad will once again host most events, yet further venues will likely round out the festival map according to the specific needs of individual projects.

As always, the festival will be held in parallel to and in collaboration with the transmediale – festival for art and digital culture

CTM Festival invites artists and researchers as well as agents, initiatives and organizations to send us project proposals until 31 July, relating to the first draft of the festival theme Dis Continuity.

TWO NEW WORKS COMMISSIONED VIA THE "UBIQUITOUS ART AND SOUND" OPEN CALL

Awarded by Deutschlandradio Kultur/Klangkunst, Goethe-Institut, ICAS – International Cities for Advanced Sound, ECAS – European Cities for Advanced Sound, and CTM festival, the “Ubiquitous Art and Sound” Open Call for works sought unusual ideas for pairing the specific artistic possibilities of radio with the potentials of live performance or installation, that also explores the omnipresence of sound in our everyday lives.

These two winning proposals will be presented both as a Deutschlandradio Kultur and ORF Ö1 broadcast, as well as a program within the CTM Festival in Berlin (24.01.-02.02.2014), and the ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst festival in Graz (Autumn 2014).

Winners The P.Node Project, from a French network of artists and hackers affiliated with projects such as Dorkbot, Le Placard, and Artkillart among others, and Walk That Sound, by Serbian artist Luka Ivanovic (alias Lukatoyboy) stood out in their approach of combining radio and live performance, as well as for their spirit of inclusiveness and collaboration. 

Read more about the winning projects here.
The original call for proposals can be found here.

ECAS is supported by the European Union within the Culture Programme.

ECAS CONFERENCE KIEV

// May 17th, 11h - 18h
// House of Architects, 7 Borisa Hrinchenka Way, Kiev, Ukraine

Hosted by the Nextsound festival, the ECAS Conference in Kiev aims to explore the changing relationships of art and music within networks, and also to examine the role that creativity has in shaping the networks themselves. The conference also aims to stimulate dialogue between the visiting network and local Ukrainian artists and professionals, notably via a speed-dating session.

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ECAS is supported by the European Union within the Culture Programme.

› 10-4-2013

www.adk.de

ECAS CALL FOR PROPOSALS

// Deadline: May 13, 2013


ECAS (European Cities Of Advanced Sound and related arts) has opened a new call for submissions under the theme "Ubiquitous Art and Sound - Art and the Everyday" within the project Networking Tomorrow's Art for an Unknown Future. The selected project will be developed and presented in 2013 and 2014 at TodaysArt in The Hague, Insomnia in Tromsø and FutureEverything in Manchester.

For more information and to apply: http://ecasnetwork.org/blog/archives/5129

ECAS is supported by the European Union within the Culture Programme.

› 10-4-2013

www.adk.de

MUSIK IN DER WOLKE

// Date: May 17
// Time: 19h - “Sound Atmospheres in Cities and Architecture” talk by Gernot Böhme, 21h – Concert/Screening with works by Walter Ruttmann, Pierre Henry, Thomas Koener, Robert Lippok
// Venue: Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin
// Tickets: Talk: free, Concert: 10/5 €

Exploring the way that sound and urban space interact on an artistic level, Musik in der Wolke (Music in the Cloud) regroups eight site-specific compositions, each specially created for a different cultural location in Berlin. From May 1-31st, the public can listen to these compositions via smartphones and GPS.

 

DISK is proud to collaborate on a special talk + concert program which takes place on May 17th, and regroups a lecture on Sound Atmospheres in Cities and Architecture (by Gernot Böhme) as well as a screening of works by Walter Ruttmmann, a playback of works by Pierre Henry, and live performances by Thomas Köner and Robert Lippok

More information: http://www.adk.de/de/projekte/2013/kulturstadt/en/musicinthecloud.htm

Musik in der Wolke is part of a larger exhibition entitled Kultur:Stadt (Culture:City), which explores the role of art and culture in urban design and planning. Full program here: http://www.adk.de/de/projekte/2013/kulturstadt/en/index.htm

PICTOPLASMA RESIDENCY 2013

// Opening: Wed April 10, 2013
// Exhibition runs: April 11 - 14, 2013
// Time: Every day 12-20h00
// Venue: General Public (Schoenhauser Allee 167c, 10435 Berlin)

Francisco Miranda – TOOCO (AR)

From a Near Future.

Each year, DISK and Pictoplasma present an artist in residency, as part of the Pictoplasma Festival. Argentinean artist Francisco Miranda, winner of the 4th residency award, will present his work at General Public.

Miranda creates multi-layered wall objects and spatial installations from elaborately cut wooden forms. Reflecting on the architecture of his native city Buenos Aires, he looks at how the old has evolved into the new. His work combines elements of art nouveau and art deco to create an intricately ornamental species of caryatids to shape a futuristic Argentinean metropolis.

More information on Francisco Miranda here.
More information on Pictoplasma here.

› 25-2-2013

ctm-festival.de

REVIEW: CTM.13 – THE GOLDEN AGE

The 14th edition of the CTM Festival, organized by DISK e.V. and DISK/CTM GbR, took place from 28 January - 3 February 2013. Under the title, The Golden Age, the festival reflected on the (over-)abundance of music in the modern world and its consequences for individuals, aesthetics, politics and the economy.

Some 200 artists/participants from 25 different countries took part in over 150 over perfomances, talks, presentations, screenings and more, all distributed over a diversity of venues: the HAU theatre, Berghain, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Stattbad, Horst Krzbrg, and the Funkhaus Nalepastrasse, home of the DDR’s National Broadcasting corporation until the 90s.

As always, the festival was held in parallel to and in collaboration with the transmediale – festival for art and digital culture.

Festival documentation of the festival can be found via the CTM.13 Press Review, the
CTM.13 Flickr Gallery, and the CTM.13 Videoblog via Realeyz.TV.

› 15-2-2013

generalpublic.de

GENERAL PUBLIC RECEIVES AWARD

General Public is one of seven Berlin project spaces to be elected for the "Preis für Projekträume" – a new support program and award for independent art spaces in Berlin, award by Berlin's Senate for Culture.  Berlin's State Secretary of Culture, Mr. André Schmitz handed over the certificate worth 30 000 EUR on February 27, 2013 at a ceremony at General Public. Other awarded spaces are:

Art Laboratory Berlin e.V.
berlinerpool e.V.
Organ Kritischer Kunst
SAVVY CONTEMPORARY e.V.
Schinkel Pavillon e.V.
WestGermany

The jury comprised Tatjana Fell (artists, curator), Katrin Bettina Müller (journalist, art critic), Stéphane Bauer (director Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien). You can read the official press statment of here.

 

THE ICAS SUITE BERLIN

From September 5 to 8, 2012, DISK orgnaizes the ICAS SUITE BERLIN, a unique, collaborative music festival that evolved from the collaboration of more than 35 festivals and music initiatives around the globe. Four days brimming with concerts, club nights, and workshops at venues around the Kotbusser Tor open up a colorful panorma of leftfield pop music holding out on the fringes of forced marketability. Next to numerous highlights, the ICAS SUITE BERLIN showcases a great deal of talent yet to be discovered from the home turfs of the participating festivals.

In the ICAS – International Cities of Advanced Sound – network, a group of 34 organisations and festivals on 5 continents join forces to promote independent and artistically daring music cultures and give each other mutual support. On the invitation of DISK's CTM Festival, the ICAS SUITE BERLIN within the Berlin Music Week sees ICAS member organizations and other international festivals join forces with Berlin labels and music initiatives to test and spark new collaborations.

› 14-5-2012

ctm-festival.de

CTM.13 – THE GOLDEN AGE

The 14th edition of the CTM Festival, organized by DISK e.V. and DISK/CTM GbR, will take place from 28 January - 3 February 2013. Under the title, The Golden Age, the Festival this time seeks to reflect on the (over-)abundance of music in the modern world and its consequences for individuals, aesthetics, politics and the economy.

The HAU theatre, Berghain and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien will once again host most events, yet further venues will likely round out the festival map according to the specific needs of individual projects.

As always, the festival will be held in parallel to and in collaboration with the transmediale – festival for art and digital culture

CTM Festival invites artists and researchers as well as agents, initiatives and organizations to send us project proposals till July 31 relating to the first draft of the festival theme The Golden Age.

Read more about the theme and how to send in proposal on the CTM Festival website.

› 14-5-2012

waxtreatment.de
gretchen-club.de

WAX TREATMENT AFRICA SPECIAL

DISK e.V. supports Hardwax in organizing its Waxtreatment Africa Special, that takes place at Gretchen Club during Berlin's Carnival of Cultures on 26/27 May 2012. Featured artists will be Mark Ernestus with Jeri-Jeri, Shed, Analog Africa Soundsystem, Friedman & Liebezeit, Shakleton, Mark Ainly, Applebim, MMM and many others.

"Every sound you hear is the drum of an African beat," stated the reggae band Wailing Souls. This is true today more than ever. For all club music whether in Europe, the USA, Japan or Oceania has fragments of African DNA deeply inscribed in its genetic material. But what happens if we try to connect the descendants with their ancestors and cousins from the African mother country of repetitive beats?

The Wax Treatment Africa Special, brings this family – old and young – together for two days on a dance floor, talking, eating and dancing together. DJs and live acts old and new interlace fresh beats from African countries with the club culture of the West - Roots and Wire. Featuring interview panels with musicians and label makers, activists and leaders discussing their work. Films, record sales, West African and Caribbean food. An evocation of the ancestors, equipped with the deadliest beats in the current club scene.

› 14-5-2012

mutek.org
ecasnetwork.org

ICAS SYMPOSIUM AT MUTEK FESTIVAL 

MUTEK Lab - Tools for an Unknown Future is a 3-day symposium organized by the ICAS/ECAS network and MUTEK from May 28 to May 30, 2012, just before the core activities of the MUTEK festival in Montreal start. Featuring a mix of keynotes, panels, case studies and presentations, the symposium covers the topics defined by ICAS/ECAS as key areas of work for the next couple of years: „Festivals as Laboratories“, „Bridging Cultural Sectors“, „Citizen Innovation“, „Ubiquitous Art and Music“ and more.

Find the program overview › here.

The symposium coincides with the annual ICAS/ECAS partner meeting. ICAS - International Cities for Advanced Sound & Related arts - is a network of likeminded independent festivals around the globe that works to foster collaboration and exchange within arts and music. The European branch ECAS is supported by the European Commission of Culture. DISK e.V. currently is the main organizer of the European network.