CTM.12 – SPECTRAL
// 30 January – 5 February 2012
// Various venues, Berlin
// ctm-festival.de
With an extensive program of concerts, discourses and an exhibition space, CTM.12 – Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Arts is appropriating the festival theme SPECTRAL to explore the current reemergence of all things ghostly and dark in experimental music, avant-pop, and art – and to speculate about its possible causes and inherent potentials.
// Artists involved (small excerpt):
Ancient Methods
Anstam
AUDiNT
Balam Acab
Ben Frost
Catherine Christer Hennix and The Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage
Conrad Schnitzler
DiskJokke
Eleh
Éliane Radigue
Grouper with Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
Haxan Cloak
Hieroglyphic Being
Holy Other
Hudson Mohawke
James Ferraro
Joshua Light Show with Manuel Göttsching, Oneohtrix Point Never, Supersilent
Loud-E
Mark Fell
Mohn (Wolfgang Voigt & Jörg Burger)
Morphosis
Mouse On Mars
oOoOO
Pole
Qluster
Roly Porter + MFO
Shlohmo
Tim Hecker
// Trailer is made by MFO, music features
// Phurpa's Mu Ye and Sendai's Northeast