CTM 2020's programme fills out with new additions. Mysterious duo Mohammad, shaabi adventurer 3Phaz, Enchufada affiliates Branko b2b PEDRO, Cashmere Radio resident Gigsta, Amplify alum Daniela Huerta, modular synth wiz Afrorack, Polish noise guerrillas BNNT, and Morphine Records boss Rabih Beaini round out the music programme. 

Does emptiness have a voice? In sergey kasich’s expansive installation, Hollow Howl, a variety of objects distributed throughout the exhibition space serve as passively resonating, reflecting, and absorbing surfaces. The installation is on-show during CTM 2020 at daadgalerie, free of charge.

A new commissioned work by Maria Thereza Alves and Lucrecia Dalt will be presented at the Botanic Garden Berlin. The spatial sound installation “You Will Go Away One Day But I Will Not” considers the Western practice of using Western scientific nomenclature to name plants worldwide.

With “Bergama Stereo,” Istanbul-based artist and musician Cevdet Erek uses the sonic to explore the lasting architectural legacy of the Pergamon Altar. A special CTM 2020 collaboration takes place at Hamburger Bahnhof to highlight the ongoing installation. On January 27th, the piece will be accompanied by a performance by the trio Contagious (Andrea Neumann, Sabine Ercklentz, and Mieko Suzuki) who have been invited to explore the themes and structural aspects of the installation.

SHAPE is a platform for innovative music and audiovisual art from Europe. Formed by ICAS members, the EU-funded project consists of festivals and art centres that support a new roster of emerging artists each year. The 2020 SHAPE roster is now announced, as well as new member festival Terraforma. 

Liminality is the possibility of transformation, ritual unbecoming. This year’s hacklab, hosted by Peter Kirn and Tad Ermitaño, focuses on how performance practice and invention can change the performer—making them someone or something else, making them newly visible, or making them entirely invisible. The 2020 Hacklab Fellows have now been selected; in January they will come together to develop pieces that remake one another’s onstage roles.

The festival welcomes live shows by Squarepusher and Dan Deacon supporting brand-new albums, a special commission by Nene H and Georgia’s Ensemble Basiani choir; a CTM x Nyege Nyege co-commission with Gabber Modus Operandi ft Wahono x Nakibembe Xylophone Troupe; a number of performances exploring liminality across spiritual, cultural, and conceptual axes, including Raja Kirik, Y-DRA, Jessica Ekomane, Andrea Belfi, and Lyra Pramuk; all-night longform projects at Säule with Frédéric Gies & Fiedel and 3Ddancer; and a wide-ranging club programme showcasing dancefloor oriented sounds from all over the globe with Sherelle, Tomasa del Real, Afrodeutsche, Rizan Said, Cera Khin b2b Lokier, DJ Firmeza, and plenty more.