28th edition | 22 – 31 January 2027

We live inside the doing, and what we repeatedly do shapes what we become. Within CTM 2027, Process…ing means resisting closure and elevating the collective acts of making and sharing above the polished artifact. A second wave of artists is announced, the festival calendar with all currently confirmed artists is only, and tickets to more events are available.

Announced 28 Oct 2026

CTM 2027 Second Wave of Acts

A new wave of artists and projects are announced for CTM 2027. The festival calendar is online with all currently confirmed artists – many more will be added with our next announcement late November.

On sale now

CTM 2027 Passes & Tickets

A range of CTM Festival passes are available, as are tickets to a first few events. Limited quantity.

Premieres set for 23 January 2027

In Listening Commission Winners

The new In Listening open call sought sound performances for focused listening driven by conceptual approaches or sonic narratives. Congratulations to Zara Julius and Pedro Oliveira, who will present their new commissioned works at the festival.

Artistic Lab Fellows Announced

Resynthesising the Traditional: At the Extreme

Congratulations to Anqi Liu, DJ Würm, Jasmine Tutum / Ntoutoume-Obame, Ken Ueno, KINDASA, Mauricio Velasierra, and Shamica Ruddock, who were selected via open call to engage critically and in-depth with aesthetic, discursive, and technological approaches when connecting to musical and cultural heritage and ideas of the extreme.

Full-Dome Audiovisual Works

UdK x CTM Portale

An evening in the planetarium dome with new AV works created by students of the »Sound Studies and Sonic Arts« Master’s programme at the University of the Arts Berlin.
 

CTM 2027 Theme

Process…ing

The 2027 edition of CTM shifts its attention to what process means in its different iterations, challenging vertical, linear systems, and championing horizontal frameworks where the process itself becomes the outcome.

Interviews, Essays, Reflections on Sound, Music and Society

By Jorge Juan B. Wieneke V

Post-Budots: Mutation, Diffusion, and Vernacular Futures

The artist and researcher Jorge Juan B. Wieneke V dives into the histories, communities, aesthetics, technologies, and material conditions of budots. Spending time with some of the genre’s originators while also reaching out to artists adopting and carrying the sound further worldwide, a fascinating conversation emerges, where questions of origin, ownership, authenticity, visibility, and access are treated as ongoing asymmetries that require dialogue, engagement, curiosity, responsibility, and community.

Ioana Vreme Moser in conversation with Lottie Sebes

Is My Lipstick A Semiconductor?

The Romanian sound artist Ioana Vreme Moser crafts handmade electronic processes to explore  materialities of sound. Ahead of showing her longtime research project »Arsenic Ballerinas« at the Echoes of Tumult exhibition, Vreme Moser spoke with the artist and researcher Lottie Sebes about the entwined lineages of cosmetics with sonic circuitry, toxicity, radio and wartime histories, and different shapes of femininity.

Marcin Pietruszewski

Ear Elisions: Subtraction, Slippage, Refraction

»Oto Aulos« by Marcin Pietruszewski and aulos performer Lukas de Clerck is a new work that centres on composing for the ancient aulos instrument and computer. Ahead of the work's premiere at CTM 2026, Pietruszewski shares more insights into his work with de Clerck and the fascinating world of the aulos – an instrument already contested in ancient times and for which we have no sonic record – while also raising questions on the limits of human listening and what it might mean when machine systems hear what their designers cannot predict.

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.

Two Decades of Sonic Exploration

The History of CTM

Entangled with the last 20 years of change that dancefloors, the internet, and in(ter)dependent music communities have seen, CTM’s two decade tenure has seen it expand, shapeshift, and proliferate continuously.

Recordings, Commissions and Documents

CTM Editions

The first release on CTM Editions explores multiple ways of reworking archived materials via re-interpreting scores, concepts, compositional methodologies, and personal/ historical narratives. Chronotopia Echoes / Αντηχήσεις features works engaging with KSYME – the Contemporary Music Research Center in Athens by Alyssa Moxley, Gaspar Cohen, Giulia Vismara, Max Eilbacher, Savvas Metaxas, and Sofia Eleni Xezonaki.

Recordings from Past Events

CTM on Soundcloud

A large number of recordings form past CTM Festival Discourse programme talks, plus select recordings of live concerts and special events are available online.

Recordings from Past Events

CTM on Youtube

Watch concerts, performances, and lectures from past CTM Festival editions, or enjoy footage from special projects and events.