Practise

Workshops and Labs

Workshops from Artists to Artists | 23 – 31 Jan 2027

A2A Transmission

A series of workshops for artists by artists, which aim to help sound practitioners expand their skill sets and practices. Workshops will be announced in December.

Commissioned Works | 23 Jan 2027

In Listening

After more than a decade of collaboration between CTM Festival and Germany’s public radio Deutschlandfunk Kultur, with support from Austria’s ORF public radio, the Radio Lab is shifted into a project titled »In Listening« which aims to zero in on sound-focused experiences. Selected via open call, Zara Julius and Pedro Oliveira will present their commissioned works at the festival.

Artistic Lab | 25 – 31 Jan 2027

Resynthesising the Traditional: At the Extreme

This artistic lab will regroup seven fellows selected via open call to engage critically and in-depth with aesthetic, discursive, and technological approaches when connecting to musical and cultural heritage. A special focus of this year’s lab is »At the Extreme.«

Artistic Lab | 21 – 24 Jan 2027

Spatial Audio Experimentation Lab

The Sound Practice Research Kollektiv (SPR), comprising students from various disciplines at the Folkwang University of the Arts and led by Jan St. Werner and Michael Akstaller, has teamed up with CTM Festival and the Futures of Listening initiative to create an artistic lab that invites international artists to engage in several days of theoretical discussion and practical experimentation around spatial sound. A day of public presentations will showcase the outcome of the lab's work. The programme will be announced this winter.