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28th edition | 22 – 31 January 2027

Under the title »Process...ing«, the 2027 edition of CTM shifts its attention to what process means in its different iterations. First acts, festival passes, select tickets, and new open calls are announced.

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CTM 2027 Passes & Tickets

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

Open Call for CTM 2027

Spatial Audio Experimentation Lab

This open call seeks artists and researchers interested in taking part in several days of practical experimentation and collective research during CTM 2027. From 21 –24 January lab participants will look at the ways space can become an active element of musical composition. Deadline to apply is 15 October 2026.

Open Call for CTM 2027

Resynthesising the Traditional

The next Berlin edition of the Resynthesising the Traditional lab is titled At the Extreme and will take place 25–31 January 2027. The lab takes on a specific subfocus on the intersections and tensions between the traditional and the extreme, with hosts Karina Utomo and Luigi Monteanni. The call is open until 28 September 2026.

Open Call for CTM 2027

Research Networking Day

This exchange platform 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. Apply by 25 October.

Co-production Performance

Tianzhuo Chen »Death by Sun«

In »Death by Sun,« multidisciplinary artist Tianzhuo Chen places the sun at the centre of a journey through mythology, technology, and the contested futures of solar energy. Performances will run in parallel to CTM Festival 2027 over four consecutive nights at HAU1. Ticket sale begins December 1st.

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.

Upcoming Events

Concerts and Club Nights in Berlin and Abroad

24 September 2026 | ICA London

Tyondai Braxton, Rian Treanor with Rotherham Sight & Sound
CTM X ICA

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.