CTM's daytime Transfer programme supports the festival’s vast musical scope. Transfer takes place at Kunstquartier Bethanien and other venues, and ties together the Discourse series of talks, panels, workshops and screenings; the collaborative MusicMakers Hacklab; several public networking events including the Research Networking Day created together with Humboldt University’s Department of Musicology; the Uncanny Valleys of a Possible Future exhibition, a special performance by artist Stefan Römer, and much more.

CTM 2018 "Turmoil" starts today with the opening of the exhibition "Uncanny Valleys of a Possible Future" at Kunstquartier Bethanien, featuring works by Lawrence Lek, Zorka Wollny, Anne de Vries, and more. The MusicMakers Hacklab will also open in parallel upstairs in Studio 1. This year's Hacklab co-host, Ioann Maria, will be performing alongside long-time host Peter Kirn. Meanwhile, Berlin Community Radio will set up shop downstairs in the Projektraum with DJ sets by Lamin Fofana and Hunni'd Jaws.

Directly following the CTM 2018 Exhibition Opening, a vibrant music ten-day programme will kick off at Berghain and Panorama Bar. Yesim, a resident at Golden Pudel, will open a restive downstairs line-up that includes JASSS, Borusiade, Boys Noize, and more. Upstairs, the likes of Esa, RAMZi, and Dengue Dengue Dengue imagine colourful, "fifth-world" sanctuaries from turmoil.

The CTM Opening Concert tonight features Jace Clayton aka DJ Rupture's homage "The Julius Eastman Memorial Dinner" and Zorka Wollny's choral piece "Dissent." Together with pianists Emily Manzo and David Friend, Clayton revisits two of late American composer Julius Eastman's seminal works for piano and reacts to them in real-time using a custom-built processing system. In "Dissent," Zorka Wollny explores the political act of voicing via a 23-piece choir, which she leads through articulations of hope, anger, and despair.

Our first collaboration with Friedrichshain's new Club Ost features a programme designed to take full advantage of the venue's first-class, custom-built soundsystem. The multifaceted line-up will unfold on two floors. The first, which starts at 22:00, traverses Antwood's cyber-ecosystems, Jlin's virtuosic percussion fractals, Special Request's jungle tear-outs, and more. The second room, which begins at midnight, is devoted to au-courante iterations of punk and noise.

Our discourse programme Kunstquartier Bethanien continues today with performances and talks by Stefan Römer and Jace Clayton aka DJ Rupture. Following a panel together with Henrik Jungaberle and Ivo Gurschler discussing psychedelics and music, Römer will give a performance at 18:00 in the spirit of musical and spiritual pioneers Syd Barrett and Conrad Schnitzler. At 15:30, Clayton gives an overview of the complexities of contemporary sound production. 

The festival's first 2018 event at Festsaal Kreuzberg features post-metal lords Amenra and Scott Kelly of Neurosis. Both acts explore the dance between darkness and light via direct, honest emotion.

Tonight's programme at HAU2 will explore the life and legacy of choreographer, electronic music composer, improviser, dance therapist, and pedagogue Ernest Berk. Despite far-reaching influence within music and dance scenes during his lifetime, Berk never truly achieved lasting recognition; his legacy as a composer, performer, and pedagogue has all but slipped out of the public consciousness. In “The Complete Expressionist”, the celebrated and versatile Berlin choreographer Christoph Winkler will oversee the long-overdue reconstruction of Ernest Berk’s dance pieces and the performance of selected musical compositions as live tape concerts. Ten dancers plus Berlin-based experimental musicians groupA, Rashad Becker, and Pan Daijing will reinterpret various pieces from Berk’s extensive body of work, all of which explore the interplay between dance and music.