CTM Festival

Less than 60 tickets remain for our powerful August 6th double bill with Ragana and Dis Fig + Spixe—better act fast while those tickets are still available 🩸

Job Opening: Our sister festival transmediale is looking for a full-time Project Manager to take responsibility for the detailed planning and smooth implementation of the festival program in close cooperation with the program, production, and administration team. If you love art, music, organization, and working with some of the nicest people in Berlin, apply now by July 26th 🧬

September 24 & 25, we return to London’s ICA across two nights, bringing together artists working in experimental composition and electronics across punk and performance art. Featuring performances by Tyondai Braxton, Cyst, Alpha Maid, Europa, and Rian Treanor with Rotherham Sight & Sound, the program traces a range of approaches to contemporary sound, where compositions are treated as a process of constant metamorphosis and parallel routes traced towards intricate and unsettled forms.

The 10th anniversary of Forecast Festival kicks off next week from July 16 to 19. Their transdisciplinary mentorship program pairs emerging artists with established practitioners, and this year’s mentor Heinali has nominated three participants for Forecast. The selected performer will join Heinali at our continued CTM x Forecast collaboration during CTM 2027.

Visions from our July 6th and 7th concerts with Sunn O))) are up on our Flickr, rippling with the blackened energy and bass rolling off Greg Anderson and Stephen O’Malley 🎸🎸

25 extra tickets have been added for tonight's Sunn O))) show—act fast 🎸🎸🔥

On September 7th, witness One Leg One Eye drag traditional Irish music through the most severe of voidic territories, stripping it down to its blackest marrow. Over the course of their AD93 releases, layers of distorted pipe drones and jagged metal textures are pressed with heavily processed field recordings, stripping folk elements down to fundamental heavy frequencies. When performed live the duo deconstructs traditional song structures entirely, focusing on sustained pitch manipulation and massive walls of resonance that alter the physical perception of the room and leave the mind feeling entirely untethered. Support TBA.

The latest artistic lab proposed by CTM Festival's Resynthesising the Traditional initiative is titled Fragmented Distance. This lab edition will take place 1–10 October 2026 in Armenia in collaboration with NOPA, a festival dedicated to sonic arts and experimental music. Apply here by August 8.

Errorsmith has Frankensteined club genres through mad-scientist digital synthesis for almost three decades, rejecting standard analog gear in favor of building his own digital instruments. For our August 20 night with ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U and yungfya, he’s bringing his DJ prowess to the decks for his hyperactive cartoon version of a rave ✃𓄧

Opening our August 20 night with ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U and featuring Errorsmith, yungfya’s beautifully broken and unpredictable rhythms are built from the deep low-ends of dubstep and grime with the high-energy tempos of jungle, footwork, and experimental electronics. Both a selector and an activist, her focus is on tearing down traditional gatekeeping, prioritizing inclusive connected spaces and the communities behind the sounds. Feel the heart behind the bass when she holds the decks ❤️‍🔥

Join transmediale’s Open Studio tomorrow at silent green as they meet this year's residents Ahreum Lee, Martyna Marciniak, Amanda E. Metzger, and Laura Benech. Doors open at 18hr, with the artists sharing their current research in a short presentation.

Less than 70 tickets remain for our July 7 Sunn O))) performance at silent green. Don't miss your chance!

Celebrating its 40th anniversary, our sister festival transmediale returns 28 - 31 January 2027 under the title groundstates, unfolding as a decentralized system foregrounding a multiplicity of internets and resisting the expectation of a single technological future. Running until March 7 2027, this edition’s exhibition fragile currents is a series of artworks and installations organized around an installation holding space for a public program. Curated using ruins as a method, the breakdown of infrastructure is treated as a condition for new forms of organization to emerge. › Full details

Completing the lineup of our August 20 A/V DJ set from musical maelstrom ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U, mad-scientist synthesist Errorsmith brings his DJ prowess to @hausdervisionaereberlin’s decks for some hyperactive cartoon rave weirdness. Opening, yungfya weaves experimental electronics with the deep bass of dubstep and grime and the high-energy tempos of jungle and footwork. › Tickets 🔥

Our sister festival transmediale is gearing up for summer with the upcoming discourse series conversation pieces: pool edition in collaboration with the art space Tropez, located in Humboldthain’s public swimming pool. Bringing together artists, curators and creators, the series takes everyday technologies as its starting point and situates them in the context of the pool—an excellent way to soak up some new ideas 🐬 The conversations will be held in German. Full details here.

On July 29, Japanese trio Violent Magic Orchestra return to open the pit at Urban Spree, pre-scourged by industrial punks PΞB. A luminous and verminously gnarled black hole of hardcore black metal rave, VMO are entropy and energy copulating furiously, suffocating guitars and throat-shredding screams as machines hammer like rabid gods. PΞB open the night with a feverish and brutal theatrical assault, drenched in distorted beats, twisted electronics, and explosive vocals.

The Berlin debut of alien black metalists Krallice on October 13 opens with an aural tear in the fabric of reality. Built almost entirely electronically from modular synthesis, Rashad Becker’s dense microtonal environments shape artificial voices and unstable interactions that breathe with uncanny organic life. Narratives mapping uncharted fictional realms recur heavily in his work, ephemeral realms where no single aesthetic reign dictates form; rather, an infinite tapestry of sonic diversity flourishes in boundless variation.

We can't wait to experience Big Brave’s massive sound this Wednesday along with Kuntari. We know ticket prices can be a barrier, so we’re offering reduced price tickets in a last minute flash sale. Tonight, Tuesday June 2, from 17:00 until 23:00 CEST you can grab tickets for a special 20€ price using the codeword IN HOPE in the ticket page. We'll see you there 🔥

𝙇𝙤𝙬 𝙏𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙩 𝘼𝙡𝙚𝙧𝙩: Sunn O)))'s Berlin return is nearly sold out! 25% of tickets for July 7 remain—better move fast before they’re gone 🔥

One week left before the ancient rituals and brute modernity of Kuntari opens our June 3 concert night with Big Brave. The duo resurrect and reconfigure traditional Indonesian rhythms, roto toms snarling with clipped resonance as percussive guitar transforms into an instrument of raw, thrumming power. › Tickets