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SECOND PANTHA DU PRINCE & THE BELL LABORATORY SHOW ADDED TO CTM.13

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:52:00 +0100

With Wednesday's performance nearly sold-out, a second showing of Pantha du Prince & The Bell...

CALL FOR WORKS: SIGN-UP FOR THE MUSICMAKERS HACKLAB @ CTM.13!

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 00:40:00 +0100

MusicMakers Hacklab @ CTM.13 - "Indeterminism Machines" // Submission Deadline: 11.1.2013 // Hacklab Runs: 29.1 - 1.2.2013 We don't want to just talk about the future: we want to invent our own Golden Age. The MusicMakers Hacklab at CTM.13 will be an open, collaborative environment in which participants can learn about new technologies and get their hands on making their own musical inventions. It's a space in which people can build a rapid prototype of anything they imagine, creating new ideas around music making and creation, from composition to performance and DJing. We're inviting people across media to encourage collaboration: musicians, developers, artists, designers, people working in skills like sound and music, but also code, fashion, visuals, and industrial design and craft. Throughout the week, we'll welcome artist and developer presentations from Keith Fullerton Whitman, Imogen Heap, Lucas Abela, Tim Exile, Ali Demirel, Native Instruments, Ableton, and others to be announced. Participants will share hands-on skill sessions on topics like physical computing and custom controllers, wearable technology and fashion, live visuals, Pure Data/libpd, Max for Live, Reaktor, OpenSoundControl, Quartz Composer, Processing, and more. PARTICIPANT INFO Selected participants who have proposed a project idea will be named official Hacklab Fellows and be provided with:

A free CTM Festival Pass;
Highlighted profile on CTM and createdigitalmusic.com websites;
The chance to show your finished work at the live showcase at Berghain Kantine on 1 Feb, as part of the CTM.13 program.

In that spirit of sharing and community, the Hacklab will be open to walk-ins from both hackers and the general public. HOW TO APPLY To be part of the Hacklab Fellows program, please submit:

A 150-word description of the project you'd like to execute;
A 100-word bio;
If you'd like, send us any images, sketches, videos, or websites you'd like to help us promote your participation and see what's inside your head. (optional)

Remember that you can include an idea about collaboration in your proposal - some Hacklab participants might want to join in your project. Send your submission (and any questions/comments) to: musicmakers@ctm-festival.de by 11.1.2013.

Presented with createdigitalmusic.com in collaboration with SemiDomesticated and CTM. Curated by Peter Kirn. General Assistant: Derek Holzer

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: EDUCATION NETWORKING DAY

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:23:00 +0100

Transfer, a new component of the CTM festival, takes shape as an interdisciplinary laboratory and meeting ground for professionals and members of the general public. Encompassing a conversation program, theoretical discussions, presentations, workshops, and networking events, the Transfer program aims to intensify the exchanges between artists, musicians, cultural workers, music technology developers, researchers, students, and industry professionals. Part of the Transfer program, the Education Networking Day scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, invites students, professors, and researchers from different graduate and posgraduate programs that straddle different fields such as audio, arts, media, and design, and related theoretical disciplines linked to these, to present programs, projects and activities. In addition to graduate and postgraduate students, the program is open to institutes and academies whose students have already made their first steps towards a professional or artistic practice. Located in the project rooms of the “Kunstqartier Bethanien”, the program gives students and professors the opportunity to present their research/study/project focus, and the diversity of their initiatives and ideas in 30 to 60 minute sequences. DISCOUNTED FESTIVAL PASSES FOR STUDENTS/PROFESSORS Additionally, CTM offers a reduced CTM/transmediale 2013 Kombi-Pass rate for groups of students/professors that wish to attend the festivals. Priced at 90 € per person (regular price 130 €), the rate applies to groups of min 10 people and grants access to all transmediale 2013 events and to most CTM festival (excluding events taking place at the HAU 1 venue). HOW TO APPLY Groups and institutions interested in participating in the Networking Day and/or in purchasing reduced festival passes may contact: Franziska Benkert (tel. +49.30.44 04 18 52) Deadline: Jan 7, 2013. Please specify if you wish to give a presentation during the Education Networking Day, and if so, please include a short description of the planned presentation. Please note that as presentation run times are tightly scheduled, overly-specialized/lengthy technical adjustments are not possible. A sound system, mixing desk, video projection equipment, and technical assistance will be provided.

FRESH CONFIRMATIONS SWELL CTM.13's "GOLDEN AGE"

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:35:00 +0100

Adding to the richness and variety of performances encompassed in The Golden Age, the latest round of artists confirmed for CTM.13 fills-in what is now a nearly-complete 14th edition lineup: Mark Archer (Altern 8, UK) / Andy Stott (UK) / Biosphere + The Pitch Ensemble (INT) / Mykki Blanco (US) / Kuedo (UK) live A/V show with MFO (DE) / Sensate Focus (UK) / Shed (DE) / DJ Sprinkles (US) / Shackleton (UK) / Frank Bretschneider (DE) / Powell (UK) / Samuel Kerridge (UK) / Evol (ES) / Greco-Roman Soundsystem (UK) / Theo Burt – The Automatics Group (UK) / Lorenzo Senni (IT) / TM404 (SE) / Pharoah Chromium (DE) / Günther Schickert (DE) / Bader Motor (FR) / Nicolas Metall (FR) / Ravi Shardja (FR) / Cavern of Anti-Matter (UK) / Nicolas Moulin (FR) / Khyam Allami (IQ) with Vasilis Sarikis (GR) / Frederic Rzewski (US) / Lower Order Ethics (HU) / Half Girl / Half Sick (DE) / Soundwalk Collective (INT) / Zip (DE) / Sammy Dee (DE) / Jörg Franzmann (DE) / Reznik (DE) / Opium Hum (DE) / A Cell of One (DE) Day-by-day Program Overview. Several programs are of note. First, CTM kicks off its opening night on Monday, January 28th with a number of free performances and presentations that run in parallel to and continue far after the festival’s Opening Concert that features Matmos and AtomTM & Marc Behrens. In addition to AtomTM’s previously-announced second appearance as Alpha txt in the HAU 2, both the ground-floor WAU restaurant and the third floor rehearsal space will host special musical projects in collaboration with two universities as part of CTM’s Transfer program dedicated to increased networking between artists, researchers, and professionals. From 19h30 until late, students from Carsten Nicolai’s “Soundstudio” class at the Städelschule Frankfurt a.M. present a variety of DJ and live sets in the WAU, while Robert Henke and his students from the “Sound Studies” Masters program at the University of Arts Berlin take up residence in the rehearsal space to invite listeners into their “Pulse Lab II – Works for Wave Field Synthesis”, a sound environment within which a sequence of works specially-conceived for a wave field synthesis sound system graciously provided by Fraunhofer Institute IDMT and Iosono will be looped. The HAU 2 program continues later on in the week with two more newly-cofirmed evenings. On Tuesday January 29th, Theo Burt (of The Automatics Group) will take festivalgoers through his own unique way of de- and re-constructing early 90s rave culture, as part of an evening entitled “Rave Undead I”. Burt’s “Remixes” project uses simple automated processes to analyse, dissect, and reorder existing Eurotrance and rave anthems. While much of the original content is destroyed in the “new” tracks, surprisingly audible microstructures remain, lending a strange familiarity to these “remakes”. Joining Burt is multidisciplinary artist and composer Lorenzo Senni, who will perform in support of his new QuantumJelly LP, a record deeply influenced by his love of 90’s trance/hard-trance music and interest in the musical structures and sound archetypes of these genres. On Friday, February 1st, the HAU 2 hosts “Graunacht”, assembling members of visual artist Nicolas Moulin’s concept label “Grautag” to showcase self-described “dystopian landscape music” or “sound produced by that everyday sense of emptiness that can overcome you today, where ’better days‘ are definitly an obsolete concept.” The evening features the label’s first building block, Bader Motor (a trio made up of Fred Bigot aka Electronicat, Vincent Epplay, and Arnaud Maguet), psychedelic krautrock protagonists Pharoah Chromium and Günther Schickert, Cavern of Anti-Matter (better known as Stereolab’s Tim Gane), guitarist turned electronic musician Nicolas Metall, and musician and sound designer Ravi Shardja, all performing within a visual environment created by Nicolas Moulin himself. The Friday night program (Feb 1st) at Berghain is also now confirmed. Adopting the name “Rave Undead II”, the program explores the early rave aesthetic and its current reappropriation. The night develops from Samuel Kerridge’s tectonic techno that ploughs through murky, industrial terrain and a special hardcore set by Berlin’s Shed, through mysterious act Powell’s thoroughly emaciated, obtuse and primitivist take on techno to the utter destruction of rave in 2012 with the violent “rave slime” mutations of Evol, and the decelerated, dubbed-out techno of Modern Love mainstay Andy Stott. It culminates in a DJ-set of original rave hero Mark Archer, one half of duo Altern-8, who through their blend of Detroit techno, Chicago house, breakbeats and other 90s dance flavours, as well as through countless improptu appearances at major unofficial raves wearing chemical warfare suits while dancing “like electrified monkeys”, inspired a whole generation of rave and hardcore aesthetics. The final blow will be delivered by the gothic-industrial hybridity of Lower Order Ethics, who herself fuels Hungary’s renowned Technokunst parties in Budapest. Over in the Panoramabar that night, Zip and Sammy Dee take up their monthly Perlon night with special guests DJ Sprinkles (the dancefloor-oriented side of Terre Thaemlitz), and Shackleton. CTM.13’s Saturday program swells with the addition of a very special afternoon at the Funkhaus Nalepastrasse, home of the GDR National Broadcasting Corporation until 1990. The program tells the story of an old GDR synthesizer, the Subharchord, and continues to weave it into the present day. Built in the 1960s in East Berlin, the Subharchord was an electronic sound generator ahead of its time, of which only 7 instruments were ever built. Thanks in part to the tireless work of sound art curator Carsten Seiffarth, who will be moderating the entire afternoon, the Subharchord is slowly coming into the limelight. Including a talk with Gerhard Steinke, who led East Berlin's “Labor für musikalisch-akustische Grenzprobleme (Laboratory for musical and acoustic boundary issues)” during the time the Subharchord was developed and built, the program features performances by artists who have worked or are working with the instrument including the world premiere of a commissioned work by Biosphere + The Pitch Ensemble, Frank Bretschneider performing his work, “Kippschwingung”, and the first performance of Frederic Rzewski's 1965 Subharchord magnetic tape piece “Zoologischer Garten” remastered. The afternoon begins with an exclusive preview and discussion of the upcoming “Subharchord – A Child of the Golden Age” documentary directed by Ina Pillat. Saturday continues with the late-night program at Stattbad, now also rounded out with a varied mix of new confirmations such as Michael David Quattlebaum, who through that fateful summer day when stepping out into the streets of NY in head-to-toe drag gave rise to his Mykki Blanco persona, subsequently becoming one of the main protagonists of the city’s queer rap (aka swag) scene. Using his performance art and poetry background to fuel his raw and electric MCing, Blanco is supported by beats from Physical Therapy. Atari Teenage Riot’s Alec Empire, eclectic London/Berlin collective Greco-Roman Soundsystem, and local Half Girl / Half Sick round out the festival’s Saturday night. Finally, CTM.13’s Closing Concert with Sunn O))) takes shape with support from contemporary Arabic oud lute player Khyam Allami, who will perform alongside percussionist Vasilis Sarikis. With firm roots in Iraq’s Maquam musical tradition, yet drawing on contemporary influences such as postrock and western avant-garde, Allami’s stark and utterly bewitching compositions will set a a tense and uneasy calm before Sunn O)))’s thundering close to CTM.13. Stay tuned as a few final artists are announced via our website and facebook page before end of December. The full Exhibition and Transfer daytime conference & workshop program will be unveiled in January. INDIVIDUAL TICKETS NOW ON SALE With this latest announcement, as well as the end of our Early-Bird festival passport sale, individual tickets for all events are now available via the Tickets & Accreditation section of the CTM website. Please check the Program Overview section for the full CTM.13 program listing.

CTM.13 INDIVIDUAL EVENT TICKETS NOW ON SALE

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:19:00 +0100

With our Early-Bird festival passport sale coming to a close, tickets for nearly all invidivual events are now available for sale via the tickets & accreditation section of the CTM website.

A PREVIEW TO CTM'S SISTER FESTIVAL TRANSMEDIALE 2013 – BWPWAP

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 20:15:00 +0100

Adopting the theme BWPWAP – Back When Pluto Was A Planet, Berlin's festival for art & digital...

SUNN O))) CONFIRMED FOR CTM.13’S CLOSING CONCERT!

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:31:00 +0100

The CTM team is pleased to add one more important piece of the 14th edition’s program – the Closing Concert at Astra Kulturhaus – which will headline Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley's Sunn O))), an influencial project with a revolving cast of musicians that excavates and expands the metal genre, remapping its coordinates with the lowest frequencies imaginable and mutating its compositional scope in the process. The massive wave-pools Sunn O))) create are more akin to the precisely oscillating soundscapes of minimalist drone composer Tony Conrad than some flint-fingered pseudo-Sabbath acolytes. Loud though rarely harsh, the sounds start low, intensifying incrementally until they've transformed the entire listening area into a dank chamber teeming with elegant sustain. Adding to the sensory overload of the Sunn O))) experience, the duo obscures themselves in clouds of thick fog, dressing in hooded robes, periodically thrusting guitars toward the sky. While CTM has hosted diverse projects by Sunn O)))'s core musicians over the years (Burial Chamber Trio, KTL, Aethenor etc), 2013 marks the first time that conditions were in place to present this celebrated project, and is also the first time the band performs in Berlin since 2009. Supporting act TBC. For more information check these links: › ideologic.org › southernlord.com/band_sun.php INDIVIDUAL TICKETS NOW ON SALE While this event is included in all of the different CTM festival passports available, individual tickets are also now on sale online. Check the Tickets & Accreditation section for more information and to purchase.

SECOND BATCH OF ARTISTS CONFIRMED FOR CTM.13!

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:00:00 +0100

Nearly a month after the first CTM.13 program elements were unveiled, we’re pleased to announce a second list of artists and projects confirmed for the festival’s 14th edition, which will take place January 28 - February 3, 2013 in Berlin: ︻╦╤─ ƱZ ─╤╦︻ (INT) / Pantha du Prince & The Bell Laboratory (DE/NO) / AtomTM presents Alpha txt feat. Material Object (CL/DE/AU) / AtomTM & Marc Behrens (CL/DE) / Simian Mobile Disco (UK) / Skream feat Sgt Pokes (UK) / Xiu Xiu + Eugene S. Robinson: Sal Mineo (US) / Dean Blunt presents The Narcissist (UK) / Terre Thaemlitz (US) / Demdike Stare (UK) / d’Eon (CA) / Holly Herndon (US) / Forest Swords (UK) / Set Mosaic (US/IT) / Ghédalia Tazartès (FR) / Pete Swanson (US) / People Like Us (UK) / Boris Hegenbart (DE) / Gatekeeper (US) / EAN (UK) / Necro Deathmort (UK) / Sun Worship (DE) / xorzyzt (US/DE) / BlackBlackGold (US/DE) / Tom Ass (US/DE) / reliq (DE) / Wife (IE) / Lucas Abela (AU) With this second batch of artists, CTM ventures further into its theme – The Golden Age – exploring the radically diverse yet interconnected niches of today’s musically (over)-abundant landscape via a range of approaches that span an arc from abstract sound research all the way to the latest developments in bass culture. Check the festival's day-by-day Program Preview. The highlights are many. Joining Matmos for CTM’s Opening Concert at the HAU1 on Monday January 20 , AtomTM & Marc Behrens give the stage premiere of "Bauteile", a work commissioned by Deutschlandradio Kultur that sees the musicians postulate “that any musical structure exists in a kind of historical and stylistic weightlessness and therefore basically can drift through all styles a epochs.” Directly following the Opening Concert, festivalgoers are invited to a free performance of AtomTM presents Alpha txt feat. Material Object at the nearby HAU2. A mixture of improvisation and sequences taken from AtomTM album classics, the project attempts to rewrite AtomTM's personal music archive. Additional sound inputs and passages will come from Material Object, who also worked as the graphic designer for the prominent ambient label FAX +49-69/450464 run by recently deceased pioneer Pete Namlook. AtomTM's opening night performances set the tone for the festival’s program at HAU this year, which highlights a series of artists as ideosyncratic vectors, uncompromisingly forging their very own way of doing things while constantly negotiating between subjective and common idioms. For instance, Pantha du Prince, one of the leading proponents of an aesthetically sophisticated Shoegaze-Techno, together with The Bell Laboratory, an ensemble of classically trained percussionists, will perform a symphony for electronics and percussion instruments on January 30 at HAU1. Co-presented with HAU, the sonic center of this symphony is formed by a heavy bell carillon with 64 bronze bells. Friday February 1st at the HAU1, Hype Williams’ Dean Blunt presents The Narcissist as a world premiere, part two of which was recently released on Hippos in Tanks. Blunt is joined by another world premiere by Sal Mineo, a new collaborative project by Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu) and Eugene S. Robinson (Oxbow) – which will see its debut album release in April 2013 on Important Records. Both create tense, narrative-driven atmospheres charged with an undercurrent of latent aggression built up from the repeated accretion of failure, via samples of familiar sounds, free roaming experimentation and arresting lyrics that conjure troubled characters from daily life. Dean Blunt - 'The Narcissist ft. Inga Copeland' by BOILER ROOM At the HAU2, on Wednesday January 30, artist and activist Terre Thaemlitz gives an extended performance plus discussion of his latest concept album, named Soulnessless, that assembles a body of works created in different mediums ranging from music to film. A critique of the role of spiritualism and religion in fomenting inescapable identity politics, the project equally denounces the socio-economic condition of the music market place and its rigid formats. Listen to samples of Soulnessless here. Imaginary ethnographies and primal ritual music assembled from a plethora of sources that are drawn together from the archaic through the present, from the remote to the proximal, from the exotic to the familiar, characterize the performances of French outsider musician and sonic traveller Ghédalia Tazartès, as well as of Set Mosaic, the new project by Francesco Cavaliere and Christopher Kline. Interweaving visual art and sound, Kline and Cavaliere’s performance takes place within an environment of objects, that will also set the stage for Tazartès. Ghédalia Tazartès 'Repas Froid I' (PAN 17) by •PAN• d'Eon (Hippos in Tanks) appears on Saturday February 2 in support of his Music for Keyboards project, an ongoing series of synth-only compositions, that tie together the blissfull soundworlds of Tangerine Dream, reinterpretations of hokey pop songs, and symphonic forms coloured by the problematic presence of nationalism and patriotism. An obvious nod to classical works for piano, d’Eon’s 4-hour performance cycles through different “movements” to explore the world of the synthesizer, leaving a vast complex of freedom for listeners to submerge themselves into. d’Eon will also perform his swirling, twisted pop explorations as part of a separate lineup at Berghain. d'Eon - Music For Keyboards Vol. 1 by Hippos In Tanks With the complete program still in the works, the festival’s Saturday night at Stattbad (2 February) gains shape with headliners Skream, who will perform an extended DJ set with Sgt Pokes that travels through Skream's vast musical influences, and Simian Mobile Disco, who will perform an analogue set in support of their latest album, Unpatterns. Pairing-up with Berlin promoters PURGE and #gHashtag, the evening features even more death defying bass and aural evil, including mysterious act ︻╦╤─ ƱZ ─╤╦︻, whose tunes are described by Diplo as "drunken energy sub bass and cartoon horn stabs that make my stomach feel weird and my feet shuffle," EAN of groundbreaking British non-dubstep duo Various Production, who dives deep into low-end juke and footwork, and the thrashing guitar-heavy sound of locals Sun Worship. Supported by PURGE/#gHashtag DJs xorzyzt, BlackBlackGold, and Tom Ass, the night also includes Necro Deathmort, a London-based duo that “veer seamlessly between dub-infused electronica, pounding sludge and experimental noise – often within the space of just one song” (The Quietus), and New York based duo Gatekeeper (Hippos in Tanks), who with their muscular dystopian synth thrills send listeners off into hyperreal consumer nightmares. Latest tracks by EAN KRAYTah On a separate evening, Gatekeeper will also present their latest album, EXO, as a glossy IMAX fantasy AV set conceived with New York artist Tabor Robak, known for his work with artists such as Ford & Lopatin and Fatima al Qadiri. Gatekeeper are joined by Demdike Stare as part of this sci-fi oriented audiovisual showcase at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt produced in collaboration with CTM's sister festival transmediale – festival for digital art and culture. transmediale and CTM will also co-present world premieres of new performances by People Like Us and Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez feat. A Guy Called Gerald, as well as the second edition of Boris Hegenbart's latest project “Instrumenatrium II” with Felix Kubin performing on everyone's favourite dwarf planet. Other festival performances include Pete Swanson of Yellow Swans, new Tri-Angle act and singer of black metal band Altar of Plagues, Wife, transcendent post-metal progeny reliq, the long-awaited Berlin premiere of Forest Swords, and Holly Herndon, who combines avant-garde abstractions with visceral beats. Finally, CTM’s Exhibition begins to take shape with audio activist Lucas Abela, who will present his “Vinyl Rally”, a work where gamers are invited to mess around in reengineered, old-school racing consoles and operate remote control cars equipped with cameras and styli that send back audio and video signals as the cars drive over a track constructed from disused vinyl records. This fresh wave of acts comes on top of an already diverse line-up that includes: Matmos, Diamond Version & Atsuhiro Ito, Myrninerest, Mark Fell, Florian HEcker, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Lee Gamble, Jar Moff, Heatsick, Emptyset with Joanie Lemercier, Oneirogen, IceAge, Ernstalbrecht Stiebler with Agnieszka Dziubak, Werner Dafeldecker, and ensemble l'Art pour l'Art. Stay tuned as we launch a brand-new website as well as more program elements right before Christmas. TICKETS, EARLY-BIRD PASSES, AND ACCREDITATION A range of CTM.13 and transmediale 2013 Early Bird Festival Passes are available at discounted prices between 70 – 150 EUR until December 17, 2012. Festivalgoers can choose between CTM.13 Passes and Kombi Passports that grant access to both CTM.13 and transmediale 2013. Individual tickets go on sale early December for select showcases, and will be available for all events by Christmas. Professional visitors and press representatives are invited to apply for special discounted passes at 100 €. Click here

CTM CONCERTS: NOVEMBER-DECEMBER

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:24:00 +0100

CTM rings-in two final concerts for the 2012 year, with nister, low-end bass lines, and intense hazes of sound on the one hand, and an evening exploring spatial perception of sound on the other. Be sure not to miss them!
// November 22, Berlin Polymorphism #4 - HYPE WILLIAMS & KING MIDAS SOUND // Venue: Berghain // Time: 20h // December 4, Berlin ROBERT HENKE & TIM HECKER // Venue: HAU 1 // Time: 20h

FIRST CTM.13 ACTS UNVEILED!

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:11:00 +0100

The 14th edition of CTM – Festival for Adventurous Music and Arts - will take place from January 28 - February 3, 2013 in different venues in Berlin including the HAU theatre, Berghain, Stattbad, and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, as well as the historic Funkhaus Nalepastrasse, home of the DDR National Broadcasting Corporation until 1990. Entitled The Golden Age, CTM.13 reflects on the (over-)abundance of music in the modern world and its consequences for individuals, aesthetics, politics and the economy. Read more on the theme here. As always, the CTM festival will be held in parallel to and in collaboration with transmediale - festival for art and digital culture - which takes place at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. We’re pleased to announce prolific Berlin promoter and DJ Michail Stangl (Boiler Room, ≠ not equal, Leisure System) as a new co-curator of CTM’s music program that aims to walk the line between the playful affirmation of aesthetic plentifulness of the one side, and radically subjective restrictions on the other. As a prelude to the music program, beloved US duo Matmos will perform their new album, "The Marriage of True Minds", at the CTM.13 Opening Concert on January 28th at HAU 1. Scheduled for release in February 2013 on Thrill Jockey, their new album was recorded through four years of experimentation in Ganzfeld telepathy experiments that seek proof of ESP. Matmos - Very Large Green Triangles from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.
Also on the bill is Diamond Version, a new collaboration between Raster-Noton label heads Carsten Nicolai and Olaf Bender. With an EP already out on MUTE, the duo is set to release two more this November 2012 and January 2013, right ahead of their CTM.13 performance, which will be only their second live show under this new project banner. Their EP series will then culminate in a full-length album in June 2013. Joining Diamond Version on stage will be Atsuhiro Ito, who plays a modified fluorescent tube (the Optron) like a guitar, adding to the raw noise and dynamic visuals of the performance. Diamond Version: Empowering Change from Mute on Vimeo. The world of austere, sculpted sound that defines Diamond Version is interpreted on a different register by UK duo Emptyset have been steadily honing a dark, metallic sound that evokes their native Bristol, an industrial center under drastic reconstruction. Performing in support of a recent release on Raster-Noton, Emptyset's new live AV show plays with gritty analogue visuals that amplify the raw precision of their sound. Myrninerest is the new Hallucination from Current 93's David Tibet. They will perform their first album, "Jhonn," Uttered Babylon, which was written by David about his close friendship with Jhonn Balance of experimental group Coil and about Jhonn's tragic death. The album was composed by David with founding member James Blackshaw. With all lyrics by Tibet and all music written by Blackshaw, the project features James Blackshaw on classical guitar/Indian harmonium and David Tibet as vocalist, Andrew Liles (electronics and percussions), Reinier van Houdt (piano), Aloma Ruiz Boada (violin) and Davide Pepe (hallucinatory utter film). &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;http://myrninerest.bandcamp.com/album/jhonn-uttered-babylon-the-spheres-one&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;JHONN,&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; UTTERED BABYLON (THE SPHERES ONE) by MYRNINEREST&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; Through a series of performances and events, CTM.13 is also proud to create a portrait of the German composer Ernstalbrecht Stiebler in collaboration with Berlin’s m = minimal label, and including musicians Agnieszka Dziubak (PL), Werner Dafeldecker (AT), and ensemble L'Art pour L'Art (DE). As one of the first German composers to adopt minimalist composition techniques, Ernstalbrecht Stiebler is one of the pioneers of a strict, reductionist, repetitive, sound-oriented music. In light of recent trends in electronic music, the methodologies developed by artists such as Stiebler take on a renewed importance, but have not been fully recognized to date. Specializing in connections between experimental electronic, minimal club music, Krautrock, the Berlin school, and contemporary music, the m = minimal label has recently published a few of Stiebler’s works, thereby taking a first step towards a wider reception of this artist. Under the name Oneirogen, New York based composer and multi-instrumentalist Mario Diaz de Leon creates hallucinatory washes of sound with electric guitar, electronics and acoustic instruments. With his latest release Hypnos, out this past August 2012, Oneirogen descends into an otherwordly territory of ethereal synths and unsettling distortion framed within techniques of modern composition, underground metal, and noise elctronics. Despite an aversion to the limelight, post-punks Iceage made waves with their urgent, abrasive gloom when they surfaced on Danish underground label Escho in 2011. With a new album scheduled for release in January 2013, the group’s mash of frantic, disinterested, hardcore energy is a reminder that the fringe of the post-punk movement is still fighting tooth and nail. In cooperation with the PAN label, which can be described without exaggeration as one of the most exciting and conceptually compelling platforms for experimental music around today, CTM will present a night of high contrast performances and installations at Berghain, where new projects by SND's Mark Fell (UK), Florian Hecker (AT), Keith Fullerton Whitman (US), Jar Moff (GR), and Lee Gamble (UK) set out on a spatial sound journey throughout the Berghain. Culminating in a session of Extended Play with Heatsick (UK) the evening illustrates the label’s fascinating wealth of works across genres, generations, and scenes. Another unusual program highlights Purge/#Gashtag, currently the most daring and eclectic party series in Berlin. Taking over the atmospheric Stattbad for their CTM.13 instalment, Purge nights are a black and fearless mixture of neo-goth and industrialized electronics, acid magic, ritual-rave and witched-out hip-hop, trance inducing drones, and black-metal-blasts. PURGE feat. HTRK + BRUISES / 10.11.11 / Chez Jacki / Berlin from BL4CK M4G1CK on Vimeo. DAYTIME PROGRAM - EXHIBITION AND TRANSFER As in previous year’s, the festival’s Exhibition will be housed in the Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, which will already be open on Friday, January 25th in the context of an extensive Berlin-wide partner program. Repeating last year’s format, the weekend of January 25-27th sees a large number of independent Berlin art, music, and media organizations open their doors to introduce projects that connect to the festival themes of both CTM and transmediale. Ongoing until February 24th, the CTM.13 Exhibition explores, among other, the interpretation and editing of pop music in internet user culture, and highlights how through the appropriation of music – mostly in the form of music video remakes – a new musical vernacular with far-reaching implications is appearing beyond professional networks of composers, musicians and music promoters. The Kunstquartier Bethanien, within which the Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien is housed, will also host a newly designed program segment entitled Transfer, an interdisciplinary laboratory and meeting ground for professionals and interested members of the general public. Encompassing a conversation program, theoretical discussion, presentations, workshops, and networking events, the Transfer program aims to intensify the exchanges between experimental artists, musicians, cultural workers, music technology developers, researchers, and industry professionals. And not to forget, CTM and transmediale will once again present a number of signature collaborative projects at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Stay tuned as the second wave of CTM.13 artists and program series will be unveiled early December, along with a newly redesigned festival website! The full CTM.13 program will be available in the first week of January 2013. EARLY BIRD PASSES NOW ON SALE! A range of CTM .13 and transmediale 2013 Early Bird Festival Passes are available at discounted prices between 70 - 150 EUR until December 17, 2012. Festivalgoers can choose between CTM.13 Passes as well as Kombi Passports that grant access to both CTM.13 and transmediale 2013. Professional visitors are invited to apply for special discounted passes at 100 EUR, while press representatives are invited to check back as o f November 5, 2012 to apply for Press Accreditation. Click here for more information and to purchase.