Listen to CTM 2026 Radio Lab works
Please note that the streams include an introduction in German but are largely sound-based works not requiring knowledge of German.
Listen to »21s« by Emiddio Vasquez, a live improvised audiovisual performance that reanimates the psychogeography of Ayia Napa, Cyprus, once lauded as the epicenter of UK Garage. Pulverized breakbeats, asymmetrical resonance, bat recordings, VLF whistlers and gestural interference crack open the nexus of club culture and militarism which oozes out AI-slop and early noughties paraphernalia from Ayia Napa’s club alley. Set up originally to entertain military staff in nearby British military bases, the performance revisits the alley as part of an ongoing multiyear investigation that treats the mythologies of UKG found in vinyls, the history of pirate radio and the club culture surrounding it as legitimate renditions of cultural hegemony.
Listen to »The Core« by Khrystyna Kirik and Mark Bain. Exploring how the force of war imprints itself into land, the work uses seismic data recorded during missile strikes, environmental phenomena such as earthquakes, and daily baseline readings, they translate this violence into vibration and sound, layering inaudible yet physically impactful low-frequency waves, sonic winds and frequency pools, dense drones, voice, and high frequency textures.
The CTM Radio Lab is led by CTM Festival and Deutschlandfunk Kultur – Radio Art / Klangkunst in collaboration with Goethe-Institut, ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst, Ö1 Kunstradio, and tekhnē.