CTM 2014 - Dis Continuity

The 15th anniversary edition of CTM – Festival for Adventurous Music and Arts – will take place January 24 – February 2, 2014 in different venues across Berlin, including the HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berghain, Stattbad, and the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien.

Under the title Dis Continuity, CTM 2014 zooms in on a range of musical pioneers whose curiosity and pursuit of new, idiosyncratic forms have kept them off the radar, even while their explorations and discoveries continue to influence how we create and experience music today. In so doing, the festival aims to encourage dialogue between past experimentation and a rising generation of creative minds. The festival's 15th anniversary is also an occasion to reflect on its own history, and to address the increased desire for historic references felt at the dawn of the post-digital era.

http://www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2014/preview/

The festival’s mix of concerts and club events will once again be supported by an extensive daytime program of talks, workshops, exhibitions and more. As always, CTM will be held parallel to and in collaboration with transmediale – festival for art and digital culture which takes place at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

Day-by-Day Programme Preview

Please note that certain programmes overlap, including most events at HAU1 and HAU2, as well as weekend events at the HKW.

FRI 24.1.2014

// Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien - Exhibition Opening
Generation Z: ReNoise - Russian Pioneers of Sound Art and Musical Technology in the Early 20th Century
Exhibiton runs daily until 23.2.2014
Opening performances with: Shadow Puppet? (NL/BE), ReNoise (RU), Wretch-Up (INT), Hyperaktivist (VE/DE)

SAT 25.1.2014

// HAU1. 19:30 – CTM 2014 Opening Concert
Kontakt der Jünglinge (DE)
Mika Vainio & Charlemagne Palestine (FI/US)

// HAU2. 22:00 – Sound Exchange I
DIISSC Orchestra (LT) – “Venta”
The First Latvians on Mars (LV) – "Dein Bart in Zeit und Raum"
Ornament & Verbrechen (Robert & Ronald Lippok) (DE) – "Béton Brute"
Black Manual (DE/BR)

// HAU2 Foyer – Exhibition
Experimental Music in Central and Eastern Europe

// HAU Studio – Installation
Dick Raaijmakers (NL) – "Ideofoon 3"
Open daily until 2.2.2014

SUN 26.1.2014

// Stattbad. 18:00 – Installation Opening
Chris Salter (CA), Marije Baalman (NL), Thomas Spier (DE) – "n-polytope: Behaviours in Light and Sound after Iannis Xenakis"
Open daily until 23.2.2014

// HAU2. 21:00 – Sound Exchange II
én aka Pál Tóth (HU) – “op. 120731 – hommage a király ernő”
Ensemble Mi-65 (SK) – “TRANS music ”
Bogusław Schaeffer (PL) – “Synthistory”, sound diffusion by: Łukasz Szałankiewicz (PL)
Łukasz Szałankiewicz (PL) – “Signalstory“

MON 27.1.2014

// HAU1. 15:00 – Electronic Music Pioneers in the Netherlands
Lecture by Kees Tazelaar (NL) with concerts or sound diffusions of works by:
Jan Boerman (NL), Gottfried Michael Koenig (DE), Dick Raaijmakers (NL), Henk Badings (NL), Jaap Spek (NL), Edgard Varèse (FR), Tom Dissevelt (NL), Ton Bruynèl (NL), Will Eisma (NL), Ton de Leeuw (NL)

// HAU2. 20:00
Phill Niblock (US)
Eli Keszler (US) - installation and performaces
Valerio Tricoli (IT)
Zinc & Copper Works (INT)

// West Germany – Walk That Sound
Lukatoyboy (RS)

// Where is Jesus
Π-node (INT)

TUE 28.1.2014

// HAU2. 16:00 – Editions Mego I: Groupe de recherches musicales / Recollection GRM
Lecture by Christian Zanési (FR) with sound diffusions of works by: Pierre Schaeffer (FR), Beatriz Ferreyra (AR), Philippe Carson (FR), Bernard Parmegiani (FR), Régis Renouard-Larivière (FR), Christian Zanési (FR)

// HAU2. 20:00 – Editions Mego II
Kassel Jaeger (FR)
Sound diffusion: Jim O’Rourke (US)
Main (Robert Hampson & Stephan Mathieu) (UK/DE)

// Berghain. 22:00 – Editions Mego III
Yasunao Tone (JP)
Russell Haswell (UK)
KTL (AT/US)
Chris Madak (Bee Mask) (US)
COH+Tina Frank (RU/AT)

WED 29.1.2014

// HAU1. 19:30
Hobocombo (IT)
James Holden LIVE (UK)

// HAU2. 20:00
Rabih Beaini (LB)
Charles Cohen (US)
Upperground Orchestra with Charles Cohen (INT)

// Berghain. 22:00
Moritz von Oswald Trio with Tony Allen and Max Loderbauer (INT)
Anne Wellmer & Julia Eckhardt (NL/BE)
Mark Bain (US/NL)

THU 30.1.2014

// HKW. 11:00 - Anonymonth
Workshop with Mat Dryhurst

// HAU2. 16:00 – 50 Years Elektronmusikstudion EMS Stockholm
Lecture by Mats Lindström (SE) with sound diffusions of works TBA

// HAU1. 19:30
Cyclobe (UK)
Lichens (US)

// HAU2. 20:00 - Editions Mego IV – EMS/Ideologic Organ
Mats Lindström (SE), current head of EMS presents a sound diffusion of:
Ákos Rózmann (HU/SE) - “Images of the Dream and Death” (97 min)

// Berghain. 22:00
Berlin Current commission: Owen Roberts Ensemble (UK/DE) – “Recycled Hyperprism Plastik for Amplified Chamber Ensemble”
Carl Michael von Hausswolff (SE)
Porter Ricks (DE)
Samuel Kerridge (UK)
Hypnobeat (DE)
Felix K (DE)

// Panorama Bar. 00:00
Beneath (UK)
Recondite (DE)
Sylwia (PL)

// Berghain Kantine. 22:00
Grumbling Fur (UK)
Phoebe Kiddo (AU/DE)
Mary Ocher (RU/IL/DE)

FRI 31.1.2014

// HAU2. 17:00 - Erkki Kurenniemi's Cinematic Collaborations
Films by Erkki Kurenniemi (FI), Eino Ruutsalo (FI), and Ralph Lundsten (SE)
Curated by Mika Taanila (FI). In collaboration with KIASMA Museum for Contemporary Art

// HAU1. 19:30 - Editions Mego V – Spectrum Spools
Outer Space (US)
Innode (US)

// HAU2. 20:00 – Sounds Like Kurenniemi
Sound diffusion: Erkki Kurenniemi (FI) – “On-Off”
“Project QRZ” with Mikko Ojanen (FI), Carl Michael von Hausswolff (SE), Tommi Keränen (FI)
Mika Vainio (FI)
Lucky Dragons (US) – "Make a Baby"

// Berghain. 23:00
OAKE (DE)
Dasha Rush (DE)
TR \\ ER (Truss & Tessela) (UK)
Concrete Fence (Regis & Russell Haswell) (UK)
Metasplice (US)
Helena Hauff (DE)

// Panorama Bar. 23:00
Actress (UK)
Marcel Dettmann (DE)
Moiré (UK)
Mørbeck (DE)

// Berghain Kantine. 22:00
Ion D (RO)
Rodion G.A. (RO)
Veronica Vasicka (US)
Alexander Robotnick (IT)
Fearplay (TR)

// HKW. 21:00
Dinos Chapman (UK)
In collaboration with transmediale

SAT 1.2.2014

// HAU2. 14:00 ** CANCELLED ** Towards the Maryanne Amacher Archives
Lecture with Bill Dietz (US) and Micah Silver (US)

// HAU2. 20:00
Thomas Ankersmit (NL)
Rashad Becker (DE)
Sven-Ake Johansson (SE)

// HAU1. 20:00
Julia Kent (CA)
Berlin Current commission: Kathy Alberici & Martha Jurksaitis – “Sonic Portrait of the Funkhaus Nalepastrasse” (DE/UK)

// HAU1. 22:00
Soundwalk Collective with Lillevan (INT) –"Killer Road"

// Stattbad I. 23:00
Mark Ernestus presents Jeri-Jeri (SN/DE)
Boddika (UK)
DJ Marfox (PT)
Sarah Farina (DE)

// Stattbad II. 23:00
Fatima al Qadiri (US)
patten (UK)
Sasha Go Hard (US)
M.E.S.H. (DE/US)
Lotic (DE/US)

// Stattbad III. 23:00
1991 (SE)
Karen Gwyer (UK)
Tommi Keränen (FI)
Basic House (UK)
Lumisokea (BE/IT)

// HKW. 21:00
Lucky Dragons (US)
In collaboration with transmediale

SUN 2.2.2014

// HAU2. 15:00
Talk and film screening with Godfried-Willem Raes (BE)

// HAU2. 16:00
MusicMakers Hacklab Closing Showcase
Hosted by Peter Kirn (US) and Darsha Hewitt (CA), with Hacklab participants.
Mirjam Sögner and Peter Kirn: Chorophon (AT/US)

// West Germany. 18:00 - Closing Performances Deutschlandradio Kultur/CTM/ECAS Co-commissions
Lukatoyboy (RS) - "Walk that Sound"
Π-node (INT)

// Haus der Kulturen der Welt. 21:30 - CTM 2014 Closing Concert
Robert Henke (DE) - "Lumière"
In collaboration with transmediale

More info including details of premieres of commissioned works & CTM 2014 exhibition here:
http://www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2014/preview/

Early Bird Passes available until Nov 15th here:
http://www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2014/tickets/