Features

Thematic Strands, Special Projects and Collaborations

Thematic Strand

Immersive Audio

A thematic strand that highlights our ongoing engagement in providing access to the rapidly-growing field of spatial audio technologies, and immersion into live spatialised listening experiences.

Thematic Strand

Resynthesising the Traditional

The festival’s new multi-year project »Resynthesising the Traditional« features performances, talks and an artistic lab that in various ways confront conservative views of culture as something frozen, solidified, and generally untouchable, thus resistant to any transformative practices.

Thematic Strand

Stranger AI

The unconventional sides and anarchic possibilities of AI have been a running sub-theme within CTM Festival editions for a number of years. We invite you to check related events at this festival edition, from an artistic lab, to concerts and talks.

Fundraising at CTM & transmediale

Donations for CADUS, and ALLMEP Alliance for Middle East Peace

Over the past 10 years CTM has collected donations for a variety of causes and organisations. In light of the ongoing Israel-Gaza war this year we, and our sister festival transmediale, will collect donations for ALLMEP – the Alliance for Middle East Peace, and CADUS, a humanitarian organisation delivering medical and technical emergency relief in crisis and war zones worldwide with current focuses on Gaza and Ukraine.

MONOM Archive

MONOM x CTM

Two listening sessions curated from MONOM's extensive archive of commissions and collaborations, plus an expert panel discussion highlight the range of creative potentials in spatial sound.

Daily Radio Shows

Refuge Worldwide x CTM

Daily radio shows with CTM festival artists will feature a range of sounds and voices from Berlin's local community and beyond.

Artist Support Platform

SHAPE+

Several artists supported by the SHAPE+ platform are featured throughout the CTM 2025 programme.

Collaboration

SOFT CENTRE x CTM

In a first-time collaboration, SOFT CENTRE have co-curated a number of projects at CTM 2025, showcasing leading voices from the burgeoning Australian underground.

Synthesis Concerts

transmediale x CTM

This year's collaboration between transmediale and CTM bring us works investigating some of the latest developments in generative AI, A/V storytelling, and data sonification via critical works from Hulubalang, Portrait XO, Rick Farin & Actual Objects, and ZULI.