Open Call: CTM 2026 Radio Lab
CTM Festival's 27th edition will run 23 January – 1 February 2026, returning to a range of Berlin venues such as Berghain, radialsystem, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxembug-Platz, RSO.Berlin, and Morphine Raum.
This year we turn our attention to the tensions between resonance and dissonance – generative or irreconcilable, soft or harsh, unexpectedly attuned or demanding dialogue. Rather than opposites, they are partners in an ongoing exchange, offering a lens through which to navigate personal, societal, and aesthetic experiences. If past editions of our festival traced a journey from liminality through transformation toward contact, opening portals and learning to sustain ourselves and our practices, then the CTM 2026 theme dissonate < > resonate invites us to inhabit the spaces in-between: the charged fields where frequencies meet, clash, and sometimes unexpectedly unite.
An open call for one commissioned work is currently out, for the CTM Radio Lab. Together with Deutschlandfunk Kultur – Hörspiel / Klangkunst and in collaboration with ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst, Ö1 Kunstradio, and tekhnē, the CTM Radio Lab seeks proposals from artists worldwide that engage with the festival theme while exploring hybrid possibilities of radio and live performance.
Application deadline os 14 September 2025.
More info & to apply: https://www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2026/open-calls/ctm-radio-lab-2026