CTM’s 24th edition will engage with the theme “Portals”. Notable features include a focus on South Asian electronic music, a showcase of collaborations between African and German artists via the Afropollination project, collaborations with transmediale, MONOM, and KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, and sonic portals that run the gamut of psychotropic journeys, intimate melancholia, experiences of war, ceremonies of grief and renewal, and full-blown hyperdrive club nights.

CTM 2023’s Portals morph into curatorial shapes through which to make contact with specific modes of experience, histories, communities, and speculative futures – and to reflect on the preconditions, thresholds, regulation, and fundamental function of sound and music as gateways to other realities.