CTM Festival 2025

Festival for Adventurous Music & Art

CTM 2025 will visit Radialsystem over seven consecutive days, uniting music experimentation and performances with a 5-day discourse programme and an artistic lab.

This festival edition will run without an overarching theme, instead exploring a series of new and ongoing thematic strands. One of several points of focus will be on how traditional art forms and aesthetics can be reinterpreted within modern sound and performance, outside of (self-)exoticisation and the uneven power dynamics created by mass-cultural and other stereotypes. Titled “Resynthesising the Traditional”, the lab hosted by Stas Shärifullá and Susie Ibarra unites eight fellows selected from open call to work at the Radialsystem studios ahead of a public presentation day on Sunday, 2 February.

Evoked first within our CTM Radio Lab, the theme of “Affection” will be examined through commissioned performances, including the audiovisual work “Resonant Resilience” by Lynn Nandar Htoo, rEmPiT g0dDe$$, Gabriel Htoo, and Sarah Hanan which will premiere at Radialsystem. Further performances throughout the week include Ash Fure, Ganavya, ---__--____Seth Graham & More Eaze, the “STACK” AV show by Eek, Female Wizard, Harrison Hall, Sam Mcgilp which is presented with Soft Centre, and a new work by Agustín Genoud developed during his residency as a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin fellow 2024.

Continuing the festival’s examination of spatial audio and artificial intelligence in sound, the 2025 edition will also explore themes of immersive audio and the disruption and creative anarchy within AI’s evolving role in music and art, notably through the “Wilding AI” artistic lab at MONOM as well as a dedicated Discourse programme day presented at Radialsystem. The yearly Research Networking Day will also return to Radialsystem, assembling nine students, scholars, and artists/researchers from a variety of fields of study and approaches to give short presentations within the festival’s different thematic modules.

Festival passes are on sale now. More acts, and event details and tickets will be released as of December.

The CTM 2025 Festival programme at Radialsystem is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Goethe-Institut, Federal Foreign Office, SHAPE+ and tekhné programs of the European Union, Pro Helvetia, the Embassy of the Netherlands, and Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

Media partners: Deutschlandfunk Kultur, FACT, Full Moon, RBB radioeins, Refuge Worldwide, Siegessäule, The Wire and tip Berlin.

27 01 – 01 02 2025Concerts & Performances

27 01 – 01 02 2025"Resynthesising the Traditional" Lab

28 01 – 02 02 2025CTM 2025 Dicourse programme:Talks, Lecture Performances & Panels

01 02 2025Research Networking Day

02 02 2025"Resynthesising the Traditional" Presentation

Event details and tickets will be released as of December.

Next date:

• Date Monday, 27/January/2025 20:00 bis 02.02.2025 20:00
• Venue Radialsystem V
• Address Holzmarktstraße 33, 10243 Berlin-Friedrichshain