http://www.ctm-festival.de/ News en http://www.ctm-festival.de/typo3conf/ext/tt_news/ext_icon.gif http://www.ctm-festival.de/ 18 16 News TYPO3 - get.content.right http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Mon, 14 May 2012 16:15:00 +0200 http://www.ctm-festival.de/news/current-news/news/article//icas-symposium-at-mutek.html MUTEK Lab - Tools for an Unknown Future is a 3-day symposium organized by the ICAS/ECAS network and... 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. › ecasnetwork.org › mutek.org]]> News Mon, 14 May 2012 16:15:00 +0200 http://www.ctm-festival.de/news/current-news/news/article//waxtreatment-africa-special.html CTM Festival supports Hardwax and co-presents its Waxtreatment festival during Berlin's Carnival of... 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. More info on › waxtreatment.de]]> News Mon, 14 May 2012 16:09:00 +0200 http://www.ctm-festival.de/news/current-news/news/article//ctm13-dates-announced.html The 14th edition of the CTM Festival will take place from 28 January to 3 February 2013 under the... 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. We invite artists and researchers as well as agents, initiatives and organizations to send us project proposals till July 31 relating to the first draft of our festival theme The Golden Age (detailed below). THEME: THE GOLDEN AGE Under the conditions deployed by digital culture, globalization and postmodernism, that which has always been key aspirations and promise of art and pop culture now fully unfolds: unleashed subjectivity and an unharnessed imaginary meet the wide public acceptance of its diverse forms of expression. Those manifest not so much as essential originality but rather as the products of continuous processes of self-design based on the ad lib appropriation and transformation of an eclectic range of resources. Against this backdrop, today’s music presents itself as more diverse than ever before, and never before have the listeners’ ears been so receptive. This “anything goes” situation, barely constrained by canons, technological limitations or gatekeeper authorities, fosters what appears to be a paradisical flowering of fully realized creative potential: The Golden Age. Its hallmark is a kind of ubiquitous eclecticism, that equally characterizes contemporary art music, pop-cultural niches and remnants of the mainstream, and brushes aside tired differentiation between high and low. Today, we all can draw from an increasing abundance of material just waiting to be sourced. Given that art and music are accumulative because past forms cede to new developments yet continue to exist, all that ever happened is up for grabs in the present. If nothing is ever discarded then everything is a potential resource; even what was once considered waste now is recycled as cultural artifacts. Re-contextualisation, pastiche, montage, anachronism, recombination, paradox, fusion and morphing are just some of the tools and methods applied. Such eclecticism serves personal growth and survival strategies in equal measure. Eclectic approaches rely on the originality of the materials and methods employed. Marginality thereby becomes the dominant principle. That which initially appears to be the manifestation of long-fought-for creative freedom therefore quickly also reveals its shadow side: competition for the limelight, narcissism, “tumblerization”, redundancy, unfair appropriation, sterility, or superficial “Facebook-referentiality” are just some of the catchwords up for discussion. Consequently, not all artists optimistically welcome the explosion of aesthetic diversity on the digital matrix, or the opportunities for recombination it affords them. By radically restricting themselves to a limited range of source material and strictly defined methods, or by stubbornly working through meticulous variations on long since established styles, such artists swim against the current, even when their work thereby turns out no less eclectic than anyone else’s. Likewise notable is a growing attentiveness to analog processes in real materials, in which entropy and decay are positioned against the supra-temporality of the digital. Eclecticism has been a base credo for the CTM Festival since the get-go, and this year will be no different. Under the consciously polemic and glistening, ambivalent theme The Golden Age, we’ll investigate artistic approaches to the contemporary cornucopia and the yawning chasms it hides, and simultaneously reflect critically on our own curatorial practice. How best to distinguish between fruitful and sterile eclecticism? Which perspectives are required to establish criteria that foster a broader discourse? And how to move towards new forms of sharing and communication from this molecular aesthetic? The terms tension, intensity and friction give a hint of eventual answers that will be explored further in the concert, exhibition and discourse programs. HOW TO SEND IN This is not an official call. Proposals may be submitted in informal formats by › email. We are just as interested in work or papers by individual artists and thinkers as in curatorial or collective projects, programs, workshops, etc. Proposals might be submitted for the music, performance, discourse, workshop or exhibition strands of our program, examples of which from previous years are detailed online. Please understand that we are unable to respond to every proposal submitted. As much as we would like to correspond with everyone who expresses an interest in our festival, we are still a very small team with a persistently heavy work-load. We will therefore reply only to those proposals we seriously consider appropriate for the CTM.13 program. TRANSMEDIALE As always, the festival will be held in parallel to and in collaboration with the transmediale – festival for art and digital culture. transmediale 2013 will explore the theme BWPWAP! and has just published its annual call for works. You can find details of its theme and conditions of entry › here. ]]> News Wed, 09 May 2012 14:49:00 +0200 http://www.ctm-festival.de/news/current-news/news/article//award-of-distinction-for-anke-eckardt.html Eckardt's installation piece "BETWEEN | YOU | AND | ME", which is co-produced by our ECAS festival... ECAS festival network, recieves a a Honorary Mention in the “Digital Musics and Sound Art” category of Prix Ars Electronica 2012. Congratulations! › aec.at/prix/de/gewinner/2012/ › ankeeckardt.org › ecasnetwork.org "BETWEEN | YOU | AND | ME" is a wall of sound and light. Like any other wall, it defines an architectural space. Given its ephemeral, dynamic media – ultrasound and beams of light – the wall can be perceived only when the visitor comes close and interacts with it. Two thin membranes of light form a visible frame filled with sound. Multichannel, extremely vectored hypersonic speakers render audible various textures of broken glass: a sound architecture within the wall, comprised of juxtaposed single sound beams, whose constellation changes depending on the visitor’s position. Observed from a distance, the wall fades away: clear transparency and only faintly resonant tones attest to its non-existence.   What is between you and me? When does something arise between you and me? Unlike walls of stone or concrete and intangible barriers of the social, national or political variety, the boundary in this installation can be overcome and played with.        Realised by means of the "Artist-in-Residence Grant of the Saxon State Ministry for Higher Education, Research and the Fine Arts 2011". This grant is awarded in co-operation with City of Dresden and, co-funded by "CULTURE PROGRAMME (2007-2013") in framework of European networking- and co-operation project "ECAS – NETWORKING TOMORROWS´S ART FOR AN UNKNOWN FUTURE" _ organised by: Trans-Media_Akademie Hellerau e.V.   ]]> News Wed, 09 May 2012 09:36:00 +0200 http://www.transmediale.de/node/21218 May 11–12 the first networking event of the reSource project after its initialization at... News Tue, 08 May 2012 23:08:00 +0200 http://www.ctm-festival.de/news/current-news/news/article//new-event-series-polymorphism.html CTM's new series, POLYMORPHISM, kicks-off 1st of June with a 100% SILK label night featuring LA... POLYMORPHISM, introduces forward-thinking artists, labels and networks whose innovative programs and aesthetics relentlessly subvert – or simply transgress – the established parameters of musical scenes and genres. Never before was music so ubiquitous. Never before was there so much of it, nor such a broad range. This is evident in the sheer overwhelming confusion of styles and epochs to have emerged from a musical culture that aims to keep every last thing in its tool-box, just in case…. Yet precisely when anything and everything counts as a viable source, and when no rules apply, the results can be astounding: new sound designs draw on the infinite inspiration offered by accessible archives as well as on the endless malleability of modern technology – and adopt such eclecticism as their core matrix. The ensuing musical styles defy simple categories and mono-dimensional description. They know their history yet are not simply retro, pursue a liquid, multifaceted, constantly morphing vision but are never arbitrary. Instead of narrowing their breadth of style in an exclusionary manner, these opalescent hybrids snake out simultaneously in various directions, garnering en route a myriad of different influences that they meld to a novel array of musical testimonies. Their bottom line is to remain open to the polyphony of the modern world, and the tools of their trade are recombination, pastiche, fusion, morphing, montage, DIY-media archaeology, re-contextualization and the integration of material processes. Their basic and wholly paradoxical attitude combines respect for their sources and materials with an utter disregard for established yet tired concepts of "quality", "good taste" and "target audience". The results are surprisingly ingenuous: sophisticated at times, rough and ready at others, either absurd or compellingly logical, amorphously "muddy" or packed with strong contrasts – yet never, ever anything less than resolutely eclectic and subjective. With Polymorphism – a vibrant mix of club nights, concerts and experimentation – CTM intends to capture the best of this exponential explosion of radical sound mutation. The series kicks off with 100% SILK (1. June, KaterHolzig) and Hippos In Tanks (8. June, Berghain), two labels from Los Angeles whose no-fi philosophy, elegant references, non-dogmatic productions from the far side of flash-in-the-pan hype and, not least, their strictly superb club and pop music, are all set to make you prick up your ears and dance your socks off.  

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# 1 – 100% SILK 1. June, KaterHolzig featuring LA VAMPIRES / ITAL / MARIA MINERVA / MAGIC TOUCH special guests HEATSICK / BILL KOULIGAS # 2 – HIPPOS IN TANKS 8. June, Berghain featuring JAMES FERRARO / LAUREL HALO / NGUZUNGUZU special guests PUZZLE / THE MONOKID / OPIUM HUM

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Supported by ]]> News Thu, 03 May 2012 02:11:00 +0200 http://www.ctm-festival.de/ctm-festival/documentation/press-comments.html CTM.12 was a resounding success and garnered a high level of media attention, insightful comments,... News Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:04:00 +0100 http://www.ctm-festival.de/ctm-concerts/upcoming-shows.html CTM concerts are back with regular events featuring not-to-miss appearances by supergroup Afternoon... News Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:17:00 +0100 http://www.ctm-festival.de/news/current-news/news/article//a-huge-thank-you-to-all-who-came.html After a supercharged week of concerts, discourses, exhibition and presentations, CTM.12 ended on a... The CTM team wishes to thank all festivalgoers, artists, partners, collaborators, and especially our dedicated team of volunteers for a great week full of sound, music, art, and all sorts of exchanges of ideas and shared experiences.  The highlights were many, and while the ghosts of our collective and individual histories are here to stay, they have perhaps been rendered into something less daunting through our collective weeklong journey into sound, image and extensive discourses and discussions. Stay tunes for photos, videos, press reviews and more in the coming weeks. Thanks again, and see you soon!]]> News Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:56:00 +0100 http://www.ctm-festival.de/news/current-news/news/article//last-day-of-ctm12.html The final day of CTM.12 is here, with a varied program of performances, presentations and...   
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// RANDOM NOIZE MUSICK MATINEE 15:00 THOMAS FEHLMANN [DE, DJ-Set] / 16:00 OVAL [DE] / 17:00 CRISTIAN VOGEL [UK] / 18:00 SHRUBBN!! & TRANSFORMA [av concert, DE] / 19:15 MARK WEISER AKA RECHENZENTRUM [DE] /              Time: 15:00 Venue: .HBC Tickets: 12 € available via amiando.com
   // ALL ACCESS OR LIMITED EDITION Presentation with JAKOBINE ENGEL [DE] / MANUEL GÖTTSCHING [DE] / hosted by MARIO MENTRUP [DE]             Time: 15:00 Venue: KUNSTRAUM KREUZBERG BETHANIEN Tickets: Free admission    // THE CRYSTAL WORLD SALON Presentations and performances with MARTIN HOWSE [UK] / RYAN JORDAN [UK] / JONATHAN KEMP [UK] / RALF BAECKER [DE] and participants.             Time: 16:00 Venue: KUNSTRAUM KREUZBERG BETHANIEN Tickets: Free admission   

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Evening   Closing the festival program at HAU with a Sunday afternoon sonic ritual are Phurpa, a throat singing choir deeply-rooted in the ancient magical traditions of the pre-buddhist Bon religion.   // TROWO PHURNAG CEREMONY PHURPA [RU]              Time: 17:00 Venue: HAU 2 Tickets: 7/5 € available via reservix.de
  To conclude the Festival and celebrate its own thirtieth anniversary, British label Touch invites us to one of its Spire events, which are centered on the sonic power of the organ.  // TOUCH.30: SPIRE CHARLES MATTHEWS [UK] / MARCUS DAVIDSON [UK] / HILDUR GUONADÒTTIR [IS] / THE ETERNAL CHORD [INT] / JANA WINDEREN [NO] / ELEH [US] / "ORGANOLOGY" group improvisation            SUN 05.02. Time: 20:00 Venue: Passionskirche Tickets: 18 € available via amiando.com

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 Useful links Full CTM.12 program: › ctm-festival.de/ctm-festival/program/program-schedule.html Mobile version: › m.ctm-festival.de/ Realeyz.TV daily CTM.12 video blog: › realeyz.tv/en/catalog/category/view/id/164?___from_store=de  // Part of the CTM.12 Exhibition, Laura López Paniagua’s “Spectral Transistor” will be streamed through Reboot.fm as of tonight, Friday February 3 to Sunday February 5, 2012, daily 21-5:00: › reboot.fm/ ]]> News Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:00:00 +0100