CTM 2026 Radio Lab commissions 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. Pulverized breakbeats, asymmetrical resonance, bat recordings, VLF whistlers and gestural interference crack open the nexus of club culture and militarism which oozes out AI-slop and early noughties paraphernalia from Ayia Napa’s club alley. Set up originally to entertain military staff in nearby British military bases, the performance revisits the alley as part of an ongoing multiyear investigation that treats the mythologies of UKG found in vinyls, the history of pirate radio and the club culture surrounding it as legitimate renditions of cultural hegemony.
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. The arists translate this violence into vibration and sound, layering inaudible yet physically impactful low-frequency waves, sonic winds and frequency pools, dense drones, voice, and high frequency textures.
The Radio Lab is a project by Deutschlandfunk Kultur – Hörspiel / Klangkunst and CTM Festival in collaboration with Goethe-Institut, and ORF Ö1 Kunstradio. This year it is also supported by the sound art initiative tekhnē, which is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.