CTM is a member of several international networks that taken together regroup over 50 independent festivals and organisations with the goal to support artistic work and research as well as artists on local and international levels. The Meet & Greet for Collaborative Networks on Thursday 4 February offers a chance for artists, curators and the public to meet with three of these networks, involved respectively in promoting emerging artists, audiovisual production, and sound art residencies.

Back-to-back RBMA sessions at Red Bull Studios Berlin host Mumdance and Anna Homler with Steven Warwick. The sessions are open to the public and free of charge.

The musician Hanno Leichtmann and filmmaker Carolin Brandl bring the lunatic, hypnotic musical film “African Twin Towers” back to life using as yet unpublished, self-made footage by Christoph Schlingensief.Beforehand, musician and DIY music ethnographer Laurent Jeanneau presents his Kink Gong, which since 1999 has documented the local music traditions of ethnic minorities in Southeast Asia, whose cultures are threatened by modernisation.

The rich line-up comprises Tara Transitory aka One Man Nation, Aïsha Devi with Tianzhuo Chen and Beio, group A, Le1f, and Lena Willikens in Berghain, while as of midnignt Nidia Minaj, nkisi, Jlin and KABLAM take over Panorama Bar. Limited tickets are available at the door. Passholders are advised to show up early to ensure entry.

A/V lectures by Cande Sanches Olmost on product placement, and Lucia Udvardyova on the DIY sonic landscape in Eastern Europe round-out a day that also visits Ghana, Palestine and Israel. Hosted by Norient.

American composer and instrumentalist Pauline Oliveros’s ground breaking work in tape, electronics, and improvisation and her related writings and theory since the 1960s have earned her recognition as one of the most important voices in avant-garde electronic music. For her multichannel concert tonight, Oliveros will perform on V-accordion through her EIS, joined by word artist Ione, who will deliver improvised vocals.

Assembling T’ien Lai, Esplendor Geometrico, Kassem Mosse, Gesloten Cirkel and Alienata, Berghain juxtaposes several mesmeric, catharsis-causing rhythmic manifestos. While the Berghain main floor is in the throes of hypnosis, Panorama will be flaunting rhythmic pockets that are just as deep and varied. Borusiade, Mikael Seifu, Baris K, Honey Dijon and Resom take the music to the early morning.

The Research Networking Day is a yearly CTM festival initiative that provides a platform to exchange ideas and experiences for students and researchers from different European graduate and postgraduate programmes traversing the fields of audio, arts, media, design and related theoretical disciplines. For 2016, the focus turns to the realm of sound art as local and international students and practitioners discuss geography, culture, sound, language and site-specificity. The programme is rounded-out with an opening keynote address from artists and curators Julia Eckhardt, Eric Mattson and Carsten Stabenow.