Completing the CTM 2026 programme are new music acts and performances, a transmediale collaboration featuring works braiding local ecologies and recontextualised traditional methods, a one-day music conference with Resident Advisor, a film on the band Earth, spatial audio workshops, and our Discourse programme.

Newly confirmed acts and projects are:

• Batu
• Coco Calypso
• ∈Y∋ and C.O.L.O
• Dror Feiler's NO Orchestra »No IS«
• DJ MELL G
• Lukas de Clerck
• Miss Tacacá
• Nunguja
• ohjeelo b2b Nico Adomako
• Shapednoise & Sevi Iko Dømochevsky »Absurd Matter Continuum«

Film screening: »Even Hell Has Its Heroes«, a documentary about the band Earth by Clyde Petersen

Resident Advisor x CTM »Rethinking Music Ecosystems« conference

CTM 2026 Discourse programme

d&b spatial audio workshops with Marcin Pietruszewski & Ralf Zuleeg, Serge Graefe, and Felix Deufel

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A variety of passes remain on sale in limited quantities. The CTM Festival pass grants access to most festival events accross 10 days, while Weekend Passes bookend the festival. The Connect Pass grants access to CTM and transmediale 2026 programmes. Tickets to festival events are also on sale.

CTM 2026 passes and tickets

Even Hell Has Its Heroes traces the story of Earth, following band leader Dylan Carlson and his cohorts through landscapes emotional and literal, and capturing their devotion to drone and the personal struggles that have trailed them. This event is not included in festival passes.

Screening 23.1.

Screening 24.1.

Resident Advisor and CTM team up for a conference dedicated to the future of independent electronic music communities. This one-day programme will look at how global electronic scenes are responding to mounting pressure from platform monopolies, venue closures, political instability, and economic precarity. As traditional industry models prove inadequate to these pressures, scenes across the globe are developing alternative approaches, from cooperative ownership structures and solidarity economies to decentralised technologies and community-owned spaces. With Anthea Caddy, Assyouti, Subvert's Austin Robey, Louisahhh, Sister Midnight, Shapednoise, Tresor Foundation, White Prata & many more.

Programme details

Artist talks and presentations, lecture-performances, and panel discussions examine artistic practice, ear witnessing, and (embodied) listening as methods of navigating complex musical, social, and political interrelationships.

The CTM 2026 Discourse programme consists of:

Talks and discussions at the intersection of eco-violence, embodied artistic practice, and vibration and sound as indices of violence and power: Gascia Ouzounian, Ioana Vreme Moser, Mariana Berezovska, Nursalim Yadi Anugerah, Signe Lidén, and Svitlana Matvienko.

Artistic and research-driven examinations of the aesthetic and socio-political potentials of dissonate < > resonate with: Dror Feiler, Eiliyas, Leslie García (Microhm), Lottie Sebes, Mattin, and Vita Zelenska.

Resynthesising the Traditional explored via a talk by Anuar Duisenbinov and a day of performances and discussions with fellows of the namesake artistic lab. 

Artist talks with Hoda Afshar, Pinar Öğrenci, and Nikitan Kadan with moderators Natalie Kepler and Övül Durmusoglu.

A listening session with Isuru Kumarasinghe and Salomé Voegelin.

Discourse programme overview

Immersive, spatial, or object-based audio make a significant difference in today's audio productions and performances. Within CTM’s dedicated thread on the expanded possibilities of spatial audio, The Fifth Ear, several workshops will take place in collaboration with d&b audiotechnik around their Soundscape spatial audio system to allow everyone interested to familiarise themselves with the idea of immersive audio and understand the concept of object-based audio. With Rafl Zuleeg & Marcin Pietruszewki, Serge Graefe, and Felix Deufel.

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Funded by
Senate Department of Culture and Social Cohesion | Goethe-Institut | German Federal Foreign Office | Creative Europe Programme of the European Union | Musikfonds | FABiK – Fonds Ausstellungsvergütungen Bildende Künstler*innen Berlin

In Cooperation with
Berghain | DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program | HAU Hebbel am Ufer | Haus der Visionäre | iii – instrument inventors initiative | Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien | Morphine Raum | Radialsystem | RSO.Berlin | transmediale 2026 | Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

Institutional Partners
Checkpoint Charlie Foundation | Culture Ireland | Embassy of Canada | Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands | Embassy of Sweden | KOFICE Korean Foundation for Intercultural Exchange | Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism | Kore A Round Culture | Québec Government Office in Berlin

Programme Partners
∄ | Archipel Festival | Deutschlandfunk Kultur Hörspiel / Klangkunst | Forecast | Freie Universität Berlin | Kunst Universität Linz | Leuphana Universität Lüneburg | NERDS | NyMusikk | ORF Kunstradio | ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst | ORF Ö1 | Oroko Radio | Somerset House Studios | Sonic Acts Biennale | spæs | tekhnē | u2203 studio | Ultima Festival | Universität Oldenburg | Urbiks Music | WeSA

Supported by
Ableton | AIAIAI Audio | Ambrio Sound | Berliner Pilsener | d&b audiotechnik | d&b Soundscape | SAE | Stager | Johnnie Walker | Tanqueray | Kein Problem Studio

Media Partners
Deutschlandfunk Kultur | Taz – Die Tageszeitung | RBB Radioeins | Refuge Worldwide | Resident Advisor