We're happy to share some first recordings and festival moments. Browse a selection of festival photos, listen to Refuge Worldwide broadcasts and the 2026 Radio Lab commissions via Deutschlandfunk Kultur, watch the Resynthesising the Traditional lab presentations and discussions, and read a first batch of magazine articles featuring participants and themes evoked throughout the festival programme. Select club sets and Discourse programme talks are still to come.

Interviews, Essays, Reflections on Sound, Music and Society

A Festival and Platform for Adventurous Music & Art

CTM connects multi-perspective experiences, critical reflection, hedonism, and collaborative learning via a yearly festival and continuous collaborative projects, publications, commissions, concerts, club nights, and more. Here is more on what we do, our partners, our commitments, and our 25-year history.