CTM Siberia

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While Siberian artists had a strong interest for exchange with international artists and festival curators, in Germany hardly anything was known about Siberian musical life in 2014 and 2015, when this project was conceived and produced. A highly creative electronic music, improvisation, and club music scene had developed in Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Omsk, and elswhere. Siberian musicians often performed under names that marked their distance from Moscow, for instance Bisamratta or Foresteppe. Despite great geographical distances, these voices contributed to the common Siberian musical horizon. CTM Siberia aimed to help intensify these networks.

Besides partnering with the Goethe-Institut in Novosibirsk, CTM Siberia was developed in close cooperation with Evgeny Gavrilov (Novosibirsk), who publishes under the pseudonym Dyad and is part of the Echotourist network, and Stanislav Sharifullin (Krasnoyarsk), who makes music under his hmot moniker while also operating the Klammklang label.

Several evenings of concerts blended together current projects of Siberian, Russian, and German-based artists. Sound experiments and the pop avant-garde, instrumental music and electronic sound research, local music traditions and global structures, audiovisual performance, improvisation, and contemporary composition – the CTM Siberia concert programme presented unfamiliar constellations and collaborations across genres, styles, and scenes. A daytime programme included workshops, master classes, and lectures by experienced artists and producers, exploring new artistic strategies and technological developments both theoretically and practically. The initiative also teamed-up with Boiler Room to broadcast live and DJ sets of some of Siberia's finest electronic musicians from Krasnoyarsk's UIClub.

CTM Siberia was created with Goethe-Institut Novosibirsk, Evgeny Gavrilov, and Stanislav Sharifullin.