CTM 2026 Recap

Revisit the festival through photos, videos, articles, and more

CTM 2026 is a wrap! We're happy to share some first recordings and festival moments, including a selection of photos from the festival's various events, broadcasts from Refuge Worldwide and of the 2026 Radio Lab commissions, the Resynthesising the Traditional lab performances, plus a first batch of magazine articles featuring participants and themes evoked throughout the festival programme. Recordings from select club sets and Discourse programme talks are still to come.

Best of CTM 2026 in Photos

CTM 2026 x Refuge Worldwide

  • CTM Festival 2026 by Refuge Worldwide

  • CTM Festival 2026 by Refuge Worldwide

Resynthesising the Traditional Lab Presentations

CTM 2026 Radio Lab Broadcasts

The radio broadcasts of the CTM 2026 Radio Lab commissioned works have been recently broadcast and are now available to stream online via Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

»21s« by Emiddio Vasquez is a live improvised audiovisual performance that reanimates the psychogeography of Ayia Napa, Cyprus, once lauded as the epicenter of UK Garage. 

Listen to »21s« by Emiddio Vasquez

»The Core« by Khrystyna Kirik and Mark Bain explores how the force of war imprints itself into land, the work uses seismic data recorded during missile strikes, environmental phenomena such as earthquakes, and daily baseline readings.

Listen to »The Core« by Khrystyna Kirik and Mark Bain

The CTM Radio Lab is led by CTM Festival and Deutschlandfunk Kultur – Radio Art / Klangkunst in collaboration with ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst, Ö1 Kunstradio, and tekhnē.

CTM 2026 Research Networking Day Talks

CTM Magazine