CTM 2022 Club Night: CTM for Ukraine
During the CTM 2022 Contact edition – the pandemic edition which took place in two parts – CTM and E hosted a showcase on RSO.Berlin’s third floor to feature a multitude of voices in Ukraine’s experimental and electronic music scene – Katarina Gryvul, Koloah aka Voin Oruwu, Diana Azzuz and Rina Priduvalova, Gael, and Nastya Vogan. The showcase aimed to raise donations for the K41 community fund, an important initiative supporting artists and the community in Kyiv during the first years of the full-scale invasion.
CTM 2023 Concert: RIDNE
In 2023, ∄’s label Standard Deviation and Remote Control presented their joint project »RIDNE« at CTM. »RIDNE« (Рідне, Ukrainian for »native/dear«) is a series of videos shot over the past weeks in various locations in the country. The videos, shot in first-person perspective, were set to music by musicians who are closely connected to the respective place shown in each video, whether it is their own hometown, a personal place of solace, or a place that symbolises something of their own experience of war. In Kyiv, tofudj walks through the ghostly darkness of a city blacked-out by Russian bombing, while Diana Azzuz sets scenes on the border to Poland to music, returning to experiences of her own flight. Mykolaiv native bsw reimagines a walk through the ravaged streets of his city as a quest-like adventure. Odesa’s Undo Despot scores familiar city scenes including her usual beach spot, which no longer feels the same, and Kharkiv-based artist Panghoud guides us through the new realities of his hometown turned battleground.
CTM 2026: Disturbed Ground
Disturbed Ground was a project by ∄ and that brought together artists undo despot, Zeynep Schilling, Khrystyna Kirik, and Mark Bain to create two new audiovisual performances that respond to the ecological consequences of war in Ukraine. The project was co-curated by ∄, CTM Festival, Mariana Berezovska, Anastasiia Syradoieva and alen hast from u2203, and supported by Goethe-Institut. Disturbed Ground builds on previous artistic investigations held at ∄ in autumn 2024 under the title, Echoes of the Earth.
In June 2025 the artists worked at ∄’s creative and tech production space, u2203 studio, collaborating closely with scientists and researchers who are investigating the environmental destruction caused by Russia’s full-scale invasion — from contaminated water systems to soil destabilised by ongoing military explosions. In dialoguing with scientific research, the artworks aim to propose different ways of relating to ecocide and expand anthropocentric perspectives of military realities.
Exploring how the force of war imprints itself into land, Khrystyna Kirik and Mark Bain’s »The Core« uses seismic data recorded during missile strikes, environmental phenomena such as earthquakes, and daily baseline readings. The artists translate this violence into vibration and sound, layering inaudible yet physically impactful low-frequency waves, sonic winds and frequency pools, dense drones, voice, and high frequency textures. Enhanced by special lighting from zeroday, the work unfolds as a journey through five acts, descending from the surface into the depths of the ground. This work is about destruction, but rather than hardening in response to trauma, it asks: what does the land feel, and can we learn to feel with it?
A collaboration by undo despot, Zeynep Schilling, and alen hast & myk rudik of u2203, »Heavy Waters« explores the layered and evolving life of rivers in Ukraine, weaving their transformation from mythical entities and life-giving sources to key assets for industry and now, to sites deeply affected by war. Visual language informed by folklore, scientific research, and ecological documentation is combined with the affective and emotional capacities of sound and composition, transporting the waters and the landscapes they shape and feed. Waters hold more than just physical matter. They carry memory, violence, and loss that settle beneath the surface. Like buried memories, these sediments may shape the future in ways we cannot yet fully see or understand.
The results of the Kyiv residency were presented at ∄’s Concert Hall on June 22, 2025. A work-in-progress preview followed in Berlin in July, leading to further development and the official premiere at CTM Festival in early 2026.
Disturbed Ground was co-produced by ∄ and CTM Festival with support from Goethe-Institut’s Co-production Fund. Curated by Mariana Berezovska, Anastasiia Syradoieva, alen hast from u2203, and CTM Festival.