Today's discourse events at Kunstquartier Bethanien continue with four presentations upstairs in Studio 1, two talks downstairs in the Projektraum, and two events at the Red Bull Music Studios. In Studio 1, Aden Evens will speak about "digital creativity"; Leigh Alexander will address play and promise in digital culture; George Lewis will discuss his interactive computer system Voyager; and Lewis & Roscoe Mitchell will speak with Wire editor Daniel Spicer. The Projektraum will host two sessions focusing on gabber & hardcore—the first will address the history of the genres and the second on its recent resurgence & appropriation by younger generations of activists. At the Red Bull Studios, Hanna Bächer will speak in two sessions with festival artists: Hanin Elias, who performed last Saturday, and Equiknoxx, the collective performing tonight at YAAM.

Versatile media artist Marco Donnarumma will appear at HAU2 tonight in the perfomance "Eingewide," which is the second piece in his "Corpus Nil" trilogy. The trilogy is a series of solo performances at the crossroads of body art, sound art, and technology. In them, Donnarumma probes the physical, psychological, and physiological relations between machine intelligence and the human body.

For the first time in Berlin, Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst will present the new expanded version of their live show with a 9-piece vocal ensemble. The performance will explore themes of AI and frontiers (technological, geographical, and otherwise) while celebrating community and endorsing hope in the face of despondency. In the first half of the show, six ensemble members (houaïda, Annie G, Albertine Sarges, Marshall Vincent, Josa Peit, and Lyra) present short vignettes of their solo projects.

The main floor at YAAM, presented by Carhartt, features fresh new takes on dancehall, hip hop, and other bass- and rhythm- heavy forms. Long-term partners Native Instruments have joined us in curating a second floor of London-based artists involved in a tightly-woven scene that is rapidly redefining the city’s dance music climate. Berlin community space and ongoing party series hoe_mies take over the third floor at YAAM with their crew of female, non-binary, and trans artists that fight for better representation in the hip hop scene. 

The festival is coming to a close! Our last daytime programme features two conversations led by Hanna Bächer at the Red Bull Music Studios Berlin. The first is with drum&bass pioneer DJ Storm, who will play at tonight's closing party at Schwuz. The second is with EBM legends DAF, who headline the closing concert at Festsaal Kreuzberg. At 18:00 and 20:30, in "Skalar Live," Christopher Bauder & Kangding Ray set their light installation into motion in real-time.

It's the final evening of CTM! In tonight's Red Bull Music x CTM closing concert, Gabriel "Gabi" Delgado-López and Robert Görl play live the music that has inspired generations of electronic music lovers and producers through its canny mix of dark momentum, humour, physicality. Berlin-via-NYC & LA darkwave outfit Bestial Mouths will open a night with their pumping industrial synth lines and raw, fearless vocals.

Turmoil will build and spin and come to a final close, at least within the bounds of the festival, across two floors in a gung-ho afterparty tonight at Schwuz. On the first floor, Angel and Klitclique flaunt post-digital attitude; performance art duo Faka raise the room temp; and Born in Flamez, Flava D, and Opium Hum traverse broad genre spektra to keep the booties shakin. The second floor spans the drum&bass tear-outs of trailblazer DJ Storm, sounds from China's underground via 33EMYBW and GOOOOOSE, and sets by Cairo producer ZULI, this year's radio lab winner, and dystopia gatekeeper Pixelord. Please join us for this celebratory grand finale!!

From 17:00 to 19:00, HAU2 hosts a special performance showcasing the fruit of 10 days of experimentation and ingenuity by the participants of this year's MusicMakers Hacklab. For those interested in the future of sound technology, this is not to miss!