Twenty-three applicants were selected out of over 70 applications to take part in the Hacklab's second edition at MUTEK.MX.

The European Network for Contemporary Audiovisual Creation is offering six AV research and/or production residencies with CTM Festival (Berlin), humainTROPhumain (Montpellier), LABoral (L.E.V Festival, Gijón), Avatar (Quebec) and le lieu unique (Nantes). Taking place over a period of November 2016 to May 2017, the call searches for creative and innovative artistic projects and research within the fields and at the cross-sections of sound, visuals, music, performing arts and digital culture. Artists may apply for more than one preferred residency location until the extended deadline of 23 June.

We're excited to partner with Berlin Community Radio, to extend festival coverage outside of our 18th edition's venues. Aside from broadcasting a selection of recordings from the festival's music and discourse programme, BCR has organised daily live shows from their studio in Mitte, featuring artists performing at CTM 2017. The series starts today, with special guest, Pan Daijing, at 17h. Check-out the full broadcast schedule for more info!

The MusicMakers Hacklab will celebrate its 5th year this January 2017 at CTM Festival! Led by Peter Kirn (DCM) and co-host Byrke Lou, this collaborative, improvisatory, experimental environment facilitates working together to conceive and realise new ideas in a week of intensive activity. An open call for this year's "Emotional Invention" theme is out now, with a deadline of 30 November.

Following our first festival announcement in October, we are pleased to release the second wave of artists and projects confirmed for CTM 2017. From deconstructions and brutal sonic examinations of Lorenzo Senni, Pharmakon, Pan Daijing and Colin Stetson's Ex Eye, to the future bass sounds of Miss Red, Endgame and Mechatok, CTM's 18th editon swells with a multitude of audacious sounds. A notable Mexico focus that ranges from club sounds of Siete Catorce to vocal chaos by duo (sic), as well as a venture into the Norwegian Space Disco scene led by Diskjokke and Bjorn Torske are also confirmed.

Established in 2013, CTM’s Berlin Current initiative taps into the city’s sprawling landscape of unconventional pop and electronic music hybrids to map out its current expansion of musical diversity, and to support emerging Berlin-based acts and artists. A range of Berlin Current supported events are upcoming this fall, including two collaborations with Unsound (in Vladivostok and at the festival's home edition in Krakow), a showcase produced with Lunchmeat in Prague, and input into CTM's Polymorphism event in October at Berghain. Have a look at artists and projects that have been supported by the initiative.

Following several editions at CTM Festival, the MusicMakers Hacklab has begun to travel! The Hacklab is a collaborative, improvisatory, experimental environment that invites artists, technologists and researchers in the fields of sound, image and related arts to imagine and realise new musical ideas. From 17 - 23 October, CDM and CTM bring a special Hacklab edition to MUTEK.MX festival in Mexico City, which will explore the "Immersive Invention" theme together with hosts Peter Kirn, Leslie Garcia and Paloma Lopez (Interspecifics), and professor Roberto Morales. More information on this theme, as well as an application form, are now up.

The fourth edition of the Technosphärenklänge series by Haus der Kulturen der Welt and CTM Festival puts a focus on the 50-year anniversary of Morton Subotnick’s seminal release, Silver Apples of the Moon. Subotnick joins forces with Alec Empire and video artist Lillevan to create a new interpretation of his seminal work as well as other older and more recent compositions. Further performances by Valery Vermeulen, and Caterina Barbieri.