CTM is an independent, non-profit initiative built on constant collaboration. Since 1999, CTM has been highlighting new strains of pop and fringe cultures that venture through the weird, the challenging, the cathartic, the esoteric, the contagious, and the ecstatic – simultaneously exploring sonic histories, contexts, and political and technological entanglements. Though international in its approach, CTM remains deeply rooted in and committed to the Berlin underground club scene from which it emerged.
Programming supports a multitude of voices, backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, reaching out to all corners of the globe to explore and explode wildly different, experimental, mutating global scenes. Through a multi-perspective approach, we aim to respond to the diversity of an increasingly polycentric, polychromatic, and hybrid (music) world, always with empathy, openness, and a desire to counter global asymmetries.
Because of CTM’s mutually collaborative nature, activities highlight a large and ever-expanding range of practices in and around sound. Through yearly themes, the festival experiments with formats, locations, technologies, and ways of listening, creating multiple entry points from which to engage with sound and their contexts.
CTM Festival is a project of DISK – Initiative Bild und Ton e.V. and DISK Agency – Rohlf, Schuurbiers GbR. Funded by Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.