New for the January programme is a special 40 Years of Touch concert that features longtime collaborators as well as artists that consistently expand the experimental music’s sonic terrain. With longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches, Oren Ambarchi’s immersive ambient explorations are punctuated by collaborator and sound artist crys cole, who re-tunes the ear with subtle and imperfect sounds created through haptic gestures and seemingly mundane materials. Youmna Saba is currently focused on the interrelationship of traditional Arabic music and electronic and electroacoustic treatments. An attentive and (com)passionate listener of the world around him, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay inquires into the materiality, objecthood, site, and technological mediation of lived experiences, and considers the aspects of subjectivity, contemplation, mindfulness, and transcendence inherent in listening. In her rich, ambient drone soundscapes that explore the complexity of the human psyche, Ipek Gorgun balances technical precision and emotional potency to spin fine-tuned sounds that stay resistant to blur no matter how thick her mix becomes. Philip Marshall aka The Tapeworm soundtracks the night with his signature experimental sets, manipulating audio from cassettes with sound effects.
Presented online via HAU4 and CTM’s YouTube channel, »Jump Cut« is a six-part web series of streamed collaborations between multidisciplinary artists. The series premiered at CTM 2021 with limited releases of the initial episodes, and will now be shown in its entirety, including the premieres of the final two episodes at CTM 2022. Conceived by Dana Gingras/Animals of Distinction as a way to survive and thrive in pandemic times, the series curates unpredictable multidisciplinary encounters between artists who have had to shift to working in isolation.With: Brenna Murphy, Marie Davidson, Lucrecia Dalt, Peaches, Roger Tellier-Craig, Sabrina Ratté, Sonya Stefan, Tot Onyx & many more.
The programme for the 2022 Research Networking Day is now confirmed. The exchange platform for students and researchers from different graduate and postgraduate programmes traversing the fields of audio, arts, media, design, and related theoretical disciplines will feature short presentations within different thematic modules related to CTM’s Contact theme. Helen Anahita Wilson, Jasmin Schreiber, and Shrey Kathuria speak within »The Sound of Healing.« The session »Assymetries in Sonic Experiences of Power« features Caitlin Shepherd, Hakeem Adam, Lottie Sebes, Ultimate Leisure Worker’s Club, while speakers Caroline Ford DeCunzo, Michelle/Min Lai, and Nelle Möller contribute to »The Sound of Nature.« In collaboration with Paderborn University, UdK Universität der Künste Berlin, and the German Association for Music Business and Music Culture Research (GMM).
In the »Keys Only« partner event taking place during CTM 2022 Part 1, Berlin’s ensemble mosaik will present a concert programme that focuses on the sonic possibilities of synthesizers and keyboards – only. Ensemble mosaik’s members have been steadily deepening their virtuosity on synths and keyboards, since undertaking multiple performances of Enno Poppe's »Rundfunk 3« for nine synthesizers over the past years. This engagement serves as the starting point to an evening featuring two world premiere collaborations with composers Mirela Ivičević and Maximilian Marcoll, framed by works from Georgia Koumará and Poppe.
In collaboration with transmediale, the city-wide Vorspiel 2022 series will unite over 65 Berlin-based initiatives and venues in a programme featuring exhibition openings, performances, interventions, artist talks, and special events. The initiative aims to showcase the richness and diversity of Berlin's independent project spaces and artist initiatives active in music and sound, visual and media arts, as well as connected hybrid fields. The programme will be announced in January. Vorspiel runs in parallel to CTM and our sister festival transmediale 2021-22, who will round out their year-long festival edition with a symposium and an exhibition.
CTM 2022 Contact asks how we might establish positively transformative modes of contact with other realities beyond our own, be it between people with different ways of life, in different parts of the world, between generations, or with our planetary environment and the diversity of its life forms. What modes of listening are relevant and urgent in the present moment and how might we listen in more compassionate ways?
Details of the CTM 2022 Exhibition and Discourse programme, as well as a first programme announcement for CTM 2022 Part 2, will be out in January.
19 January – 6 February 2022
19.–23.1. & 26.–30.1.2022 | daily 16–22:00 | silent green Betonhalle
Performative installation by Phillip Sollmann and Konrad Sprenger, with interventions by Arnold Dreyblatt, Brass Abacus, Ellen Arkbro, Kali Mallone & Stephen O’Malley, Will Guthrie
Opening: 21.1.2022 | Runs: 22.1.-6.2.2022
A programme that runs parallel to and in collaboration with transmediale and CTM Festival, Vorspiel showcases the richness and diversity of Berlin's independent project spaces and artist initiatives active in music and sound, visual and media arts, as well as connected hybrid fields.
Tickets at the door
Andrius Arutiunian – »Incantations«
28.-30.1.2022 | daily 16–22:00 | silent green Kuppelhalle
Commissioned as part of the CTM Radio Lab, this new work for voice and electronics is rooted in sung and spoken forms of spells and charms that have long been used to enchant reality and oscillate the universe back to its balanced state. It will be presented as an installation at CTM 2022, and in March as a radio play via Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
Free entry
CTM 2022 Exhibition – Connected Alienation/ Vernetzte Entfremdung
28.1.–27.3.2022 | Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
The CTM Exhibition will reflect on the Contact theme through audiovisual works by Ale Hop, Dana Gingras / Animals of Distinction, Ibrahim Quraishi, nerd_funk.
Free entry
29.1.2022 | 12:00–17:00 | online
An exchange platform for students and researchers from different graduate and postgraduate programmes traversing the fields of audio, arts, media, design, and related theoretical disciplines. Short presentations within different thematic modules are linked by discussion rounds at the end of each session. In collaboration with Paderborn University, UdK Universität der Künste Berlin, and the German Association for Music Business and Music Culture Research (GMM).
Free
40 Years of Touch
31.1.2022 | 18:00 | silent green Kuppelhalle
UK-based imprint and publisher Touch celebrates forty years of activity with a specially conceived concert that features longtime collaborators as well as artists that consistently expand the experimental music’s sonic terrain. With Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Ipek Gorgun, Oren Ambarchi & crys cole, Youmna Saba, The Tapeworm.
Fronte Violeta – »What is Not (O Que Não Está)«
31.1.–4.2.2022 | 14–18:00 | Tieranatomisches Theater
Commissioned as part of the CTM Radio Lab, this new work by Fronte Violeta with dMartha Kiss Perrone takes place in the context of end-of-the-world narratives, provoking the possibility of types of contact that trigger new perceptions of listening to what is absent, and to narratives, bodies, and technologies that survive disasters. It will be presented as an installation at CTM 2022, and in March as a radio play via Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
Free entry
Dana Gingras & Animals of Distinction – »Jump Cut«
1.-6.2022 | 18:00 | HAU4 & CTM YouTube
A video series that features multi-disciplinary casts of artists exploring remote collaboration. Daily premieres with: Brenna Murphy, Marie Davidson, Miguel Prado, Lucrecia Dalt, Peaches, Roger Tellier-Craig, Sabrina Ratté, Sonya Stefan, Tot Onyx & more. Presented with HAU Hebbel am Ufer.
Free
2.2.2022 | 20:00 | Kulturbrauerei (Kesselhaus)
Ensemble mosaik’s members have been steadily deepening their virtuosity on synths and keyboards, since undertaking multiple performances of Enno Poppe's »Rundfunk 3« for nine synthesizers over the past years. This engagement serves as the starting point for »Keys Only,« an evening that will feature two world premiere collaborations with composers Mirela Ivičević and Maximilian Marcoll, plus works by Johan Svensson and Enno Poppe.
2.–4.2.2022 | online
A series of six online workshops for artists by artists that aims to help sound practitioners expand their skill sets and practices at a time when touring and in-person performance opportunities remain affected by the pandemic. The workshops will be announced in January.
Fronte Vacuo – »Humane Methods [ΣXHALE]«
5-6.2.2022 | 18:00 & 21:00 | Radialsystem
Performance group Fronte Vacuo presents a ritualistic choreography where human, more-than-human, and AI lifeforms influence one another, revealing an uneasy interdependence. Presented with HAU Hebbel am Ufer.
CTM 2022 Part 2
24–29 May 2022
Club nights, concerts, the MusicMakers Hacklab, and Discourse programme at Berghain, Heimathafen, Kunstquartier Bethanien, and other venues tba. The programme will be announced in January.
Tickets and Accreditation
Due to ongoing uncertainties with the Covid-19 pandemic, we will not offer festival passes to CTM 2022 Part 1 events. Tickets to individual events are now on sale. Streamed content will be offered free of charge via CTM’s YouTube channel. Press accreditation is now open, with an application deadline of 7 January 2022. Accreditation grants access to Part 1 and Part 2 of the festival.
In-person access to all festival events will be offered under the »2G+ rule« (vaccinated, recovered).