CTM 2023 Highlights: »Portals« & the worlds they give access to
After two years of lockdown, CTM Festival is finally returning to its usual format, simultaneously unfolding a diverse range of IRL activities across Berlin from…
The day after: Berlin Atonal X(Xenakis)100, an abyssal time embodying multiplicity
While on the way to Berlin, time-bending, going in and outside of the grid, we [the writers] started to question historicity through the legacy of…
Insight: ‘Requiem For Clouds’ by inklingroom, a dance dialogue with sound
‘Requiem For Clouds’ is a performance project commissioned by inklingroom, a London-based art platform specialising in combining contemporary dance and music. The collective debuted their…
Biomedia, Contributors, Op & Ed
‘Toxic geographies & nonhuman temporalities at Sonic Acts 2022’ Katažyna Jankovska
Understanding of time depends on what is valued in time. Capitalism sustains itself on ideas of the future and the perpetual movement forward. Looking through…
HÉLÈNE VOGELSINGER, an spiritual journey through modular synthesis
In electronic music, there is room for movement and stillness, machine and organism, continuity and detention. Immersing into the world of music made between machines…
Festival: MIRA Digital Arts Festival 2022 Barcelona
Digital arts festival MIRA returns to Barcelona on November 11-12. Running in the Catalan capital since 2011 (plus a couple of stints in Berlin), it’s…
Insight: freq_wave, a sound installation aimed to reflect on the depth of the oceans
freq_wave (Pacific; Los Angeles) is an immersive installation by pioneering new media and conceptual artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff, who has transformed the interior of…
‘Post-pandemic time & the New Chronologies of Sound ’ by Miguel Isaza
A New Chronology Among the many things that the Covid-19 pandemic has represented for humanity, there’s an issue that, although somewhat diffuse and polyvalent in…
Body Sculptures, Digital Culture, News
Insight: CODESS, the interactive installation & live performance by UY Studio Berlin
Starting in 2013 with the design and production of gender-neutral garments inspired by the Berlin club scene, UY Studio has proven itself in many creative…
Event: [ADSR]2, a new experimental music event by Tokoro Studio
[ADSR] was initiated within Tokoro Studio to bring a different space/place for emerging artists to perform and for people to have access to their sonifications….
WOJCIECH KOSMA, an affective abundance of music with a mouthful of Polish poems
Wojciech Kosma is mainly known for his performance practice based on collaboration and physical presence, unpacking the themes of relationships, emotions and intimacies between oneself…
ZOSIA HOŁUBOWSKA, the synth witch that queers
Born in Poland, Zosia Hołubowska is a sound artist and a non-binary activist based in Vienna; wherein 2014, they founded Sounds Queer? a collective synth…
PHILIP SAMARTZIS & EUGENE UGHETTI, investigating Antarctica’s soundscapes
There is an incredible supply of life in Antarctica, even though the region is often perceived as a barren solitude of ice. It is undeniably…
CTM/transmediale, Digital Culture, News
Festival: CTM 2022 »Contact«, experimenting with hybrids environments
Already a week in, CTM 2022 Contact asks how we might establish positively transformative modes of contact with other realities beyond our own, be it…
RACHEL PIMM & GRAHAM CUNNINGTON, suspending geology in its mutations
As nature preservation has become a major global concern, artists Rachel Pimm and Graham Cunnington scrutinise the magnitude of the physical world and its undisclosed…
Unsound Kraków 2021: The Day After
In 2018, it was the last time I travelled to Kraków without a Covid-19 passport on hand. Presence was the theme of Unsound Festival already…
ROBERT GERARD PIETRUSKO, inspecting data perspectives through sound & design
Robert Gerard Pietrusko is a designer, composer and educator who investigates the strain of everlasting data in time and space. Using multiple resources and jumping…
Festival: MIRA Digital Arts Festival 2021 Barcelona
MIRA Son Estrella Galicia Digital Arts Festival 2021, is taking place from 12th to 14th of November in Barcelona. In this edition, the team behind…
Event: Il Pianeta come Festival XL by MACRO X Terraforma vol.2
Terraforma is an international music festival dedicated to artistic experimentation and sustainability. The three-day event has taken place since 2014 in the garden of Villa…
‘Amoenus & Iklectik Art Lab, artistic explorations into 3D audio’ by Agata Kik
Amoenus has turned IKLECTIK Art Lab into an Ambisonic setup this year, immersed in an amalgam of audio effects. In an organisational partnership, they experiment…