CTM 2018 Festival in Review

Documentation

Browse a collection of articles, radio broadcasts, video recordings, and images documenting CTM 2018. Audio and video recordings of this year's discourse programme will be up on Soundcloud and YouTube soon.

CTM 2018 in Image

The official CTM 2018 gallery with photos taken by the CTM photographic team: Camille Blake, Udo Siegfriedt, Stefanie Kulisch, and Isla Kriss. You can also access the images as well as documentation of past festivals directly via our Flickr page.

CTM 2018 Lectures & Talks

Listen to a selection of recordings from our CTM 2018 discourse programme. More to be added in the next days.

CTM x Berlin Community Radio

Over the course of the ten-day festival, CTM teamed up with Berlin Community Radio to produce fifteen different mixes by some of this year's featured artists.

CTM x Red Bull Radio

During the festival CTM also collaborated with Red Bull Radio to produce live recordings of several standout sets at Club Ost, Festsaal Kreuzberg, and Schwuz.

Video Recordings

Christoph Winkler – Ernest Berk (Part 1)

Date: 28.01.-30.1.2018
Venue: HAU2

SKALAR by Christopher Bauder & Kangding Ray

Date: 27.1. – 25.2.2018
Venue: Kraftwerk Berlin

Red Bull Music Academy Lectures: Equiknoxx

Date: 01.02.2018
Venue: Red Bull Music Studios Berlin
Moderator: Christine Kakaire

Red Bull Academy Lectures: Hanin Elias

Date: 01.02.2018
Venue: Red Bull Music Studios Berlin
Moderator: Hanna Bächer

Red Bull Music Academy Lectures: DJ Storm

Date: 04.02.2018
Venue: Red Bull Music Studios Berlin
Moderator: Torsten Schmidt

Red Bull Music Academy Lectures: DAF

Date: 04.02.2018
Venue: Red Bull Music Studios
Moderator: Hanna Bächer

Articles and Radio Broadcasts

East Africa's New Wave

Resident Advisor
Date: 05.12.2017
Content: Portrait – Nyege Nyege Tapes
Author: Aaron Coultate
Language: English

CTM und DJ Heroin

Red Bull Radio
Date: 16.01.2018
Content: Interview – Jan Rohf, Johanna Grabsch, & DJ Heroin
Moderators: Naima Limdighri & Keno Mescher
Language: German

Hardcore Spreads Its Wings

Resident Advisor
Date: 18.12.2017
Content: Year in Review and Preview of CTM's Gabber Night
Author: --
Language: English

Groove Podcast 142: Kilbourne

Groove
Date: 19.01.2018
Content: Interview & Mix – Kilbourne
Author: Kristoffer Cornils
Language: English 

Soulful Footwork Mutations

Passive/Aggressive
Date: 22.01.2018
Content: Interview – Jana Rush
Author: Sandra S. Borch
Language: English

Avant-Garde Insanity

Electronic Beats
Date: 23.01.2018
Content: Festival Preview
Author: Born in Flamez
Language: English

Klänge der Krise, Musik des Aufruhrs

Deutschlandfunk
Date: 25.01.2018
Content: Interview – Jens Balzer
Moderator: Sigrid Fischer
Language: German

Wie dieses Berliner Frauen-Kollektiv die Hiphop-Szene aufmischt

i-D/Vice
Date: 25.01.2018
Content: Interview – hoe_mies
Author: Juule Kay
Language: German

Echo Spaces // Julius Eastman

Stray Landings
Date: 25.01.2018
Content: Portrait – Julius Eastman
Author: Georgie McVicar
Language: English

Eröffnungsparty des CTM Festivals im neuen Club OST

RBB radioeins – ARD Mediathek
Date: 26.01.2018
Content: Interview – Heiko Hoffman
Moderator: radioeins vom RBB
Language: German

The Complete Expressionist

TIP Berlin
Date: 26.01.2018
Content: Preview – Ernest Berk
Author: Peter Laudenbach
Language: German

ZULI – Shaping Music and Culture

Passive/Aggressive
Date: 26.01.2018
Content: Interview – ZULI
Author: Sandra S. Borch
Language: English

Kablam Made us a Cardi B Rant-Sampling Party Mix

i-D/Vice
Date: 26.01.2018
Content: Mix – KABLAM
Author: Alexandra Bondi de Antoni
Language: English

Innehalten beim alltäglichen Tumult

TAZ
Date: 26.01.2018
Content: Festival Preview
Author: Beate Scheder
Language: German

Wenn Gefühle leuchten

Tagesspiegel
Date: 26.01.2018
Content: Preview – SKALAR
Author: Birgit Rieger
Language: German

Unbequeme Musik für unbequeme Zeiten

Musikexpress
Date: 26.01.2018
Content: Festival Preview
Author: Laura Aha
Language: German

Curation at its Core

PW Magazine
Date: 27.01.2018
Content: Interview – Jan Rohlf
Author: Claire Mouchemore
Language: English

Der Sound des Tumults

TAZ
Date: 27.01.2018
Content: Festival Preview
Author: Philipp Rhensius
Language: German

Tiempos incómodos

Berlin Amateurs
Date: 27.01.2018
Content: Festival Preview
Author: María Muñoz
Language: Spanish

Expatriarch Radio #93

Expatriarch Radio
Date: 28.01.2018
Content: Mix – CTM / kos_mic q'andi
Moderators: Bella Cuts & Gizem
Language: English

Das schöne Leben nach dem Menschen

Der Spiegel
Date: 28.01.2018
Content: Review – Opening Concert
Author: Tobi Müller
Language: German

Das CTM Festival bringt abenteuerliche Musik in die Stadt

Morgenpost
Date: 28.01.2018
Content: Festival Preview
Author: Alexander Gumz
Language: German

Unruhige Zeiten rufen nach unruhiger Musik

Berliner Zeitung
Date: 28.01.2018
Content: Review – Opening Concert
Author: Markus Schneider
Language: German

Amenra Live in Berlin

Intro
Date: 28.01.2018
Content: Review – Amenra
Author: Valentin Erning
Language: German

Kontemplation und rohe Energie

TAZ
Date: 29.01.2018
Content: Review – Exhibition
Author: Tilman Baumgärtel
Language: German

Cevdet Erek at Berghain

Creative Boom
Date: 29.01.2018
Content: Interview – Cevdet Erek
Author: Emily Gosling
Language: English

SKALAR. Reflections on Light and Sound

Chromart Magazine
Date: 29.01.2018
Content: Report – SKALAR
Author: María Muñoz
Language: English

Unruhige Zeiten verlangen nach unruhiger Musik: CTM Festival 2018

TIP Berlin
Date: 29.01.2018
Content: Festival Preview
Author: Tim Caspar Boehme
Language: German

Im Auge des Tumults

TIP Berlin
Date: 30.01.2018
Content: Preview – Exhibition
Author: Stefan Hochgesand
Language: German

Grenzen Sprengen

Tagesspiegel
Date: 30.01.2018
Content: Festival Preview & Opening Concert Review
Author: Andreas Hartmann
Language: German

Aufruhr und Schönheit

Berliner Morgenpost
Date: 31.01.2018
Content: Review – Opening Concert
Author: Alexander Gumz
Language: German

Interview: Hugo Esquinca

Local Suicide
Date: 31.01.2018
Content: Interview – Hugo Esquinca
Author: Thomas Romana
Language: English

Schallwaffen gegen das Unbehagen

TAZ
Date: 31.01.2018
Content: Preview – "Unease" & "Antidote"
Author: Steffen Greiner
Language: German

Nackt zu Geigen-Beats tanzen

TAZ
Date: 31.01.2018 
Content: Review – First Weekend
Author: Philipp Rhensius
Language: German

Dystopische Sounds in 4-D

TAZ
Date: 01.02.2018
Content: Review – MONOM
Author: Natalie Mayroth
Language: German

Pionierinnen des Drum'n'Bass: Frauen lassen Bässe rollen

TAZ
Date: 02.02.2018
Content: Preview – Ikonika & DJ Storm
Author: Philipp Rhensius
Language: German

Es Wird ein AI-Baby

TAZ
Date: 03.02.2018
Content: Portrait – Holly Herndon
Author: Jens Uthoff
Language: English

Schaltzentrale

Fullmoonzine
Date: 03.02.2018
Content: Festival Report
Author: Andrea Bodnárová
Language: Czech

"Skalar" von Christopher Bauder

RBB 24
Date: 04.02.2018
Content: Interview – Christopher Bauder
Author: Bastian P. Welte
Language: German

CTM Festival nicht ganz so futuristisch wie oft behauptet

Berliner Zeitung
Date: 04.02.2018
Content: Festival Review
Author: Johannes von Welzsäcker
Language: German

CTM Festival's Gabber Party at Berghain was Absolutely Insane

Electronic Beats
Date: 05.02.2018
Content: Review – "Adrenalin"/Gabber Night
Author: Derek Opperman
Language: English

Verschwende dein Alter

Der Tagesspiegel
Date: 05.02.2018
Content: Review – DAF
Author: Volker Lüke
Language: German

CTM Festival 2018: Five Key Performances

Resident Advisor
Date: 06.02.2018
Content: Festival Review
Author: Caroline Whiteley
Language: English

Angst and Love über Berlin

Kaput Mag
Date: 06.02.2018
Content: Festival Review
Author: Thomas Venker
Language: English

Musik nach Algorithmen

SWR2
Date: 06.02.2018
Content: Portrait – Roscoe Mitchell & George Lewis
Moderator: Franziska Buhre
Language: German

Música para tiempos convulsos

Beat Burguer
Date: 06.02.2018
Content: Festival Review
Author: Carolina Velasco
Language: Spanish

Recover from CTM with Laurel Halo

Electronic Beats
Date: 06.02.2018
Content: Mix
Language: English

Rückblick CTM Festival: Ambivalenz des Aufruhrs

zweikommasieben
Date: 07.02.2018
Content: Festival Review
Author: Marc Schwegler
Language: German

DJ Lakuti: Heart, Sincerity and Compassion

Passive/Aggressive
Date: 07.02.2018
Content: Interview – DJ Lakuti
Author: Sandra S. Borch
Language: English

I Slept With 69 Strangers to Try and Access My Subconscious

Sleek
Date: 07.02.2018
Content: Review – NOQTURNAL
Author: Harriet Shepherd
Language: English

Freiheit unseren dressierten Körpern

TAZ
Date: 07.02.2018
Content: Festival Review
Author: Philipp Rhensius
Language: German

IOANN's Imagining the Hyperspace at CTM Festival

Berlin Art Link
Date: 07.02.2018
Content: Report – MONOM
Author: Diane Barbé
Language: English

Lucrecia Dalt at CTM Festival 2018

Berlin Art Link
Date: 07.02.2018
Content: Interview – Lucrecia Dalt
Moderator: Diane Barbé
Language: English

CTM 2018 Embraced Both Light and Shade in a Showcase of Experimental Art and Music

Crack Magazine
Date: 08.02.2018
Content: Festival Review
Author: Anna Tehabsim & Graeme Bateman
Language: English

How Creativity Responds to "Turmoil"

Creative Boom
Date: 08.02.2018
Content: Review – CTM & transmediale
Author: Emily Gosling
Language: English

Report: CTM Festival 2018

Kink
Date: 02.2018
Content: Festival Review
Author: Anna Wim
Language: English

CTM Festival 2018  – "Wie viel Noise hältst du noch aus?"

Spex
Date: 13.02.2018
Content: Festival Review
Author: Sonja Matuszczyk
Language: German

Vrijheid als Gist voor Cultuur?

Gonzo Circus
Date: 14.02.2018
Content: Festival Review
Author: Allart van der Woude, Ruth Timmermanns
Language: Dutch

CTM Transmediale

Rai Radio 3 / BATTITI
Date: 19.02.2018
Content: Mix
Author: Toni de Martino
Language: Italian

 

Entanglements, Attractions and Contradictions

Passive/Aggressive
Date: 20.02.2018
Content: Festival Review
Author: Sandra S. Borch
Language: English

Unbehagen und Underground

Passive/Aggressive
Date: 22.02.2018
Content: Festival Review
Author: Nadine Schildhauer
Language: German

Consciously Uncomfortable

Beyond the Drop
Date: 27.02.2018
Content: Festival Review
Author: Daniel Melfi
Language: English

Sny o etiopskim spektralizmie

Glissando
Date: 28.02.2018
Content: Festival Review
Author: Daniel Brozek
Language: Polish

Chaos und Krawall

Goethe Institut Japan
Date: 02.2018
Content: Festival Review
Author: Verena Daurer
Language: German

Ind i Mørket, ind til Modstanden

Seismograf
Date: 02.03.2018
Content: Festival Review
Author: Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek
Language: Danish

Things Learned

The Quietus
Date: 02.03.2018
Content: Festival Review
Author: Tristan Bath
Language: English

Surrounded

zweikommasieben
Date: 06.03.2018
Content: Review – MONOM
Author: Mathis Neuhaus
Language: German

MONOM and Spatial Sound

PW Magazine
Date: 07.03.2018
Content: Interview – William Russell
Author: --
Language: English

Arte Tracks

Arte Tracks
Date: 16.03.2018
Content: Feature Rashaad Newsome, feature WIXAPOL S.A.
Author: --
Language: German

HDMirror's Futuristic Hardcore Set

Electronic Beats
Date: 20.03.2018
Content: Live Set
Author: --
Language: English

A Hymn of Human Perception

Design Boom
Date: 25.03.2018
Content: Review – Skalar
Author: Zach Andrews
Language: English

Tam bir disavurumcu, Ernest Berk

Gaia Dergi
Date: 26.03.2018
Content: Review – Ernest Berk
Author: Müga Olacak
Language: Turkish

Motorized Mirrors and Techno

Electronic Beats
Date: 27.03.2018
Content: Review – SKALAR
Author: --
Language: English

Podcast: Sarah Farina & Johanna Grabsch

Electronic Beats
Date: --
Content: Podcast
Author: --
Language: German