CTM Festival

Open Call: The Spatial Audio Experimentation Lab offers several days of practical experimentation and collective research, looking at the ways space can become an active element of musical composition. Apply here by 15 October 2026.

Announcing our first artists for CTM Festival 2027! Our first acts span global hardcore such as A.N.I., Evil Grimace, and NZIRIA; AV album premieres with Modeselektor, Dis Fig, and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith; performances weaving through different modes of listening, concerts and commissions exploring Resynthesising the Traditional with Kuntari, Rully Shabara, Karina Utomo; new open calls and more. Early-bird CTM Festival passes and Connect Passes for CTM + @transmediale are on sale now in limited quantities. Weekend Passes for each respective CTM Festival weekend are also on sale. Tickets to the first few events are now available, with more going on sale throughout autumn. Press accreditation is also now open ⧖

Don't miss our free Resynthesising the Traditional: Unstable Hallucinations tonight at silent green, with Stefan Fraunberger, Dania, and Marcin Pietruszewski & Lukas de Clerck!

𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹: 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟴 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Since 2025, our sister festival transmediale has invited a new curator for each edition to bring their own unique perspective and voice to the intersection of art and technology. transmediale are looking for curatorial approaches that introduce fresh questions to the field, grounded in critical reflection and political engagement. This opportunity is open to individuals or collectives with prior curatorial experience. Deadline: 30 September, 2026

In just one week, the blackened marrow of One Leg One Eye’s Irish doom-folk returns to Berlin, together with Bridget Ferrill's warped alien acoustics. Don't miss this night of visceralities from the trance-state dimension 👽

Join us on 12 September for a free Resynthesising the Traditional evening of Unstable Hallucinations, curated as part of Transgressive Memory Festival 2026. Opening the third ear, Marcin Pietruszewski & Lukas de Clerck's »Oto Aulos«resurrects and morphs the ancient double-reeded aulos. Processed by Pietruszewski as De Clerck plays and sent back into the space in altered form, the aurality of the aulos folds into itself, multiplying and acquiring dimensions beyond the pipes themselves. › Details ☿ ⟡ ♆

Open Call: The Resynthesising the Traditional artistic lab invites artists and practice-based researchers whose work critically examines the relationships, tensions, and intersections between the traditional and the extreme. Apply here by 28 September 2026.610:49

Open Call: The Resynthesising the Traditional artistic lab invites artists and practice-based researchers whose work critically examines the relationships, tensions, and intersections between the traditional and the extreme. Apply here by 28 September 2026.

Timetable for tonight's Sold Out show with ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U, Errorsmith and yungfya! You can still get a few tickets at the Haus der Visionäre door box office if you come early...see you later 👀

Four days until ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U takes over the decks at Haus der Visionäre with Errorsmith_ and yungfya! This is gonna be a sweaty one 🥵 → Tickets

We’re thrilled that Disturbed Ground, our collaboration with Kyiv’s ∄, is among the nominees for »Best Experiment« at this year’s VIA Awards! We’re looking forward to the winners being announced on 17 September at an awards ceremony within Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg ✨

We’re thrilled that Disturbed Ground, our collaboration with Kyiv’s ∄, is among the nominees for »Best Experiment« at this year’s VIA Awards! We’re looking forward to the winners being announced on 17 September at an awards ceremony within Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg ✨

In just 10 days—🤯Yousuke Yukimatsu 🎛️ Errorsmith⚡yungfya take over the decks at Haus der Visionäre. Don’t miss this one!

Mirroring the ancient corrguíneacht tradition of standing on one leg with one eye closed to curse corrupt power, the Ireland of One Leg One Eye is built upon the bog of primal Celtic lore and twilight shadowland, upon pagan mysticism and buried leylines writhing beneath the abandoned industrial decay of modern Dublin. Uilleann pipes are warped, traditional sean-nós vocals rent into the echo-drenched keenings of sovereignty goddesses and death-prophesying war crows clawing their way out of the Ulster Cycle and into the modern era.  Don’t miss them September 7 as they spit these blackened truths, a ceremony opened by the debased sounds of Bridget Ferrill 𓅞

Presented in collaboration with Deutsche Oper, Icelandic composer Bára Gísladóttir will perform a rare presentation of her work »Silva« on 25 November. Drawing equally from contemporary classical rigor and the physical thrust of experimental music, »Silva« imagines a forest rooting itself into darkness rather than light. Co-headlining the night, Polish composer and electro-acoustic instrumentalist Robert Piotrowicz punctures complex modular frameworks with synthetic weirdings to drag the acoustic behavior of organs, bells, and microtonal chimes into uncanny aural regions.

Joining One Leg One Eye on Sep 7, Bridget Ferrill operates upon acoustic instruments, subjecting them to severe digital violence and spatial distortion until naught is left but skeleton. Debasing harp, church organ, and microtonal tuba with what she terms »false additive synthesis«, her instrument builder and audio engineering background allows her to weaponize her feedback, extracting hidden agonizing frequencies from voltage and physical space to dissolve the presence of the venue 🔺

As part of Transgressive Memory Festival 2026, our curated Sep 12 night Unstable Hallucinations threads elements of our long-term project Resynthesising the Traditional.  Marcin Pietruszewski and Lukas de Clerck explore the ancient Greco-Roman aulos; Dania’s speculations sonically reanimate Mesopotamian museum artifacts; and Stefan Fraunberger transfigures Transylvania’s decaying pipe organs. Here, idealized versions of the past are distorted into unstable hallucinations.

In collaboration with Neue Nationalgalerie, the music series Sound in the Garden returns to the sculpture gardens of the museum for five days in August. The final day features the return of the celebrated fog sculpture by iconic Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya, with a day-long program of expansive sonic dialogues in tribute to these ethereal works of art. Day I: Gigi Masin & Marco Baldini, Valentina Magaletti & Upsammy Day II: Dopplereffekt & Space Afrika Day III: Hildur Guðnadóttir & Sam Slater, Slauson Malone Day IV: Michael Rother plays NEU!, Harmonia & Solo Works (Live) Day V: In Dialogue with Fujiko Nakaya

In just five days—Violent Magic Orchestra and PΞB open up a pit of Death Rave at Urban Spree 💀 › Remaining tickets

Open Call: Research Networking Day Apply by 25 October 2026. We’re seeking proposals for short presentations at our 2027 Research Networking Day that respond to the CTM 2027 theme, Process…ing. The call is aimed at graduate or postgraduate students – as well as independent artists conducting self-guided research – traversing the fields of audio, arts, media, design, and related theoretical disciplines.