Overlap – Sound & Other Media
// January 28 – February 7, 2010
CTM.10, the 11th edition of Berlin’s unique Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Visual Arts, titled by many as Berlin's best pop and music event, is on from January 29th to February 6th 2010 under the title OVERLAP – Sound & Other Media.
Neat routine has never been CTM’s style, and in 2010, with new themes and new venues at Alexanderplatz, it again will be entering unknown territory. The festival’s blend of club nights, performances and concerts will be staged at the shiny, newly reopened WMF, with performances by exciting contemporary artists from undefined convergence zones between out-pop, experimental music, noise, art and media technologies. The daytime programme will run nearby at .HBC with a dense series of lectures, workshops, panel discussions, with installations and the new lounge as a central meeting place for festival visitors. And, not least, improving the transport connections with the sister festival, transmediale. A joint programme featuring top-class audiovisual projects at Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the joint approach to the transmediale award emphasize the increasingly close ties between the two festivals. The CTM.10 opening concert will take place at HAU 2 theatre on January 28th.
With the theme OVERLAP – Sound & Other Media, the festival continues the discussions begun during the highly praised jubilee edition in January 2009 regarding the situations, terms and future prospects of self-determined music creation and experimental audiovisual cultures. While the focus in 2009 was on the internal structures of independent music and media cultures, OVERLAP will broaden the scope to interfaces between music and other creative and economic fields. CTM.10 takes a critical look at the opportunities and risks of developments where media and creative disciplines melt increasingly together, and where previously fixed roles are now in motion. The discussion on how mutations in music culture should be framed continues.
CTM Festival website
CTM.10, the 11th edition of Berlin’s unique Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Visual Arts, titled by many as Berlin's best pop and music event, is on from January 29th to February 6th 2010 under the title OVERLAP – Sound & Other Media.
Neat routine has never been CTM’s style, and in 2010, with new themes and new venues at Alexanderplatz, it again will be entering unknown territory. The festival’s blend of club nights, performances and concerts will be staged at the shiny, newly reopened WMF, with performances by exciting contemporary artists from undefined convergence zones between out-pop, experimental music, noise, art and media technologies. The daytime programme will run nearby at .HBC with a dense series of lectures, workshops, panel discussions, with installations and the new lounge as a central meeting place for festival visitors. And, not least, improving the transport connections with the sister festival, transmediale. A joint programme featuring top-class audiovisual projects at Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the joint approach to the transmediale award emphasize the increasingly close ties between the two festivals. The CTM.10 opening concert will take place at HAU 2 theatre on January 28th.
With the theme OVERLAP – Sound & Other Media, the festival continues the discussions begun during the highly praised jubilee edition in January 2009 regarding the situations, terms and future prospects of self-determined music creation and experimental audiovisual cultures. While the focus in 2009 was on the internal structures of independent music and media cultures, OVERLAP will broaden the scope to interfaces between music and other creative and economic fields. CTM.10 takes a critical look at the opportunities and risks of developments where media and creative disciplines melt increasingly together, and where previously fixed roles are now in motion. The discussion on how mutations in music culture should be framed continues.
CTM Festival website
