Life Is But A Stream

31st Jan 2021 31st Jan 2021 20:00 22:15

Ultraflex

21:50

Sean Nicholas Savage feat. Marcin Masecki

22:30

Amigdala

21:10

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  • Ultraflex

    NO/IS

    Production duo Ultraflex consists of Norwegian artist Farao and Icelandic artist Special-K, offering an aerobic workout of disco, dance-pop, and spacey slow jams.

     

  • Alex Freiheit

    PL

    Alex Freiheit is a performer, poet, writer, actress, dancer, and the lead singer/screamer of the duo Siksa.

  • Sonia Calico

    TW

    DJ/Producer Sonia Calico has adeptly maneuvered through Taiwan’s club scene over the last couple of years, ambitiously bringing ballroom, footwork, and global bass sounds into new contexts.

    • Photo: Okay Kaya

    CTM’s closing concert this year will be presented together with Shameless/Limitless (S/L), one of Berlin’s long-standing concert series for live pop and experimental music. Passing through Berlin’s myriad venues, both DIY and established, and supporting everything from punk to ambient to club to retro weirdo antics, S/L gives space to both first-time performers and world-beating powerhouses who are looking to try something a little different. Celebrating 12 years and over 500 events, S/L has recently published Please Come: Shameless/Limitless Selected Posters 2008-2020.

    The co-curated lineup includes Arbutus Records signee Sean Nicholas Savage, a prolific songwriter and captivating performer whose 2020 record »Life Is Crazy« was released to notable acclaim. On this evening he will be joined by renowned pianist Marcin Masecki. The lineup also features Amigdala, a Berlin punk/club duo who will release their debut album No Ritual Will Summon A Machine on 26 January, and Ultraflex, a relatively new “»supergroup« consisting of Farao and Special-K, that produces footloose club-pop, partly inspired by Soviet workout videos. Ultraflex bring their own visuals for the show.

    We’re also excited to try out some live performer-audience interaction during the concert – if we’re lucky, maybe we’ll get a little bit of that music-fam feeling of listening and dancing in our favourite grungy DIY venue, heckling the bands (some of whom are friends) to get them to play longer. Anyone tuning in can instantly upload short video reactions – dancing, cheering, applause, interpretive yoga with pets – and send them to the artists, as well as the rest of the online audience, using the browser-based Streamback app. Your videos will be sorted and mixed in together with visuals by Pfadfinderei – which the performers can see on screens placed in front of them onstage, and which the rest of us can view within the livestream, as projections behind the stage. Cheer the artists on and make requests, try to start a collective choreography with other viewers, or maybe even catch a glimpse of a familiar face that is watching remotely from their home computer… ultimately, the outcome of this closing concert rests as much on you, the audience, as on the artists.

    Production: Shameless / Limitless x CTM-Festival 
    Video Production: Best Films Forever
    Interactive: Streamback
    Scenography, Visuals, and Lights: Pfadfinderei
    Shot on location at Festsaal Kreuzberg

    CTM x Streamback is funded by »dive in. Programme for Digital Interactions« of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation), and by Initiative Musik with funding by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media through the »Neustart Kultur« programme.