We're excited to partner with the wonderful Berlin Community Radio in order to extend festival coverage outside of the venues of our 19th edition. Several members of their crew will help kick off the festival tomorrow night with DJ sets at the CTM exhibition opening. Aside from also broadcasting a selection of recordings from the festival's music and discourse programme, BCR has organised daily live shows featuring CTM 2018 artists. The series starts tomorrow at 15:00 with special guest Celestial Trax and continues on Tuesday with Jessica Ekomane. Check out the full broadcast schedule for more info!

For this year's Hacklab, we invite participants to invent collaborative performances that embrace the chaos, strangeness, and cultural anxiety surrounding the theme of AI, echoing the titular TURMOIL of this year's CTM festival. We want coders and technologists to apply, but also people from across artistic and research backgrounds, from musicians to poets to psychologists – anyone interested in how humans, machines, and hybrids might perform together. We’re looking primarily not for existing work, but for new ideas to be created on the spot, in spontaneous collaboration with others. Apply by 30 November!

We're excited to release the second wave of artists and projects confirmed for CTM 2018 Turmoil. Through 10 days of special projects, commissioned works, performances ranging from extreme noise explorations to contemporary club sounds, an exhibition, and an intensive daytime programme, this 19th edition explores the state of music and sound practice in the face of a confusing and critical present. New highlights include: a special Turmoil DJ set by Boys Noize; George Lewis & Roscoe Mitchell performing with Voyager; punk and hardcore sounds from the likes of Cuntroaches, Hanin Elias, NAKED or NAH; additions to the gabber/hardcore showcase at Berghain including Marc Acardipane, Kilbourne, and HAJ300; appearances by JASSS, Nihiloxica, Hyph11e & many more.

Ahead of her appearance at CTM 2019, Sho Madjozi joins Thomas Meinecke for the year's inaugural edition of Plattenspieler, a celebrated series at HAU Hebbel am Ufer. For the festival, she will appear at Griessmuehle this Saturday, as part of a night hosted by Berlin collective Through My Speakers.

The 20th birthday edition of CTM kicks off today! Between openings for The Mantis, the Eishalle, Raster’s Labor, and the Persisting Realities exhibition, the schedule is chock-full adventurous work to see, hear, and experience.

Feeling overwhelmed? We’ve compiled a programme overview to guide you through the festival.

The club programme opens with a Bassiani x CTM collaboration at Berghain, and As If We Were Unique up in Panorama Bar. The likes of Machine Woman, Anastasia Kristensen, RUI HO, quest?onmarc, Tama Sumo, and more kick off CTM 2019.

The Research Networking Day welcomes students and researchers from different European graduate and postgraduate programmes traversing the fields of audio, arts, media, design, and related theoretical disciplines.

Two heavyweight club lineups arrive at Griessmuehle. Berlin crew Through My Speakers welcomes Slikback, Gafacci, Sho Madjozi, and Phatstoki, while LSDXOXO hosts the inaugural edition of Floorgasm with guests Wallis, Juliana Huxtable, and Pangaea.