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PRESS RELEASE 2 November 2016 CTM 2017 FEAR ANGER LOVE FESTIVAL FOR ADVENTUROUS MUSIC & ART, BERLIN 18th EDITION, 27 JANUARY – 5 FEBRUARY 2017 FIRST ACTS AND PROJECTS ANNOUNCED A major aim of the CTM Festival since its inception has been to make space for radical forms of musical expression and dissonant emotions. Under the title Fear Anger Love, CTM 2017 will focus explicitly on such emotions found in or through music, as well to examine the diverse strategies that are applied to unleash or harness them. With special projects and commissions, performances, an intensive daytime programme, and an outlook that continues to search the fringes of current music geographies, CTM 2017 will examine the unhinging and emancipatory potential of resonant (musical) emotion to recurrently question and challenge the status quo. From 27 January – 5 February 2017, CTM 2017 returns to its constellation of exciting nightlife and cultural venues in Berlin, including HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berghain, Yaam, and Heimathafen Neukölln. CTM also enters the cavernous Halle am Berghain for the first time, for the world premiere of Kurt Hentschläger’s “Sol”, an installation that celebrates loss of control, shifts in perception and a feeling of dislocation and timelessness. The exhibition, titled “Critical Constellations of the Audio-Machine in Mexico” is created in close collaboration with researcher and curator Carlos Prieto Acevedo. It traces the history and current state of electronic music and sound art in Mexico. It pays special attention to the interactions between sonic imaginaries and the nation’s collective struggles with survival, fragility and identity. The MusicMakers Hacklab, created with Peter Kirn (CDM) is back for a 5th edition this year with the “Emotional Invention” theme. An open call for participants is now out. We are also looking for junior researchers/students and emerging artists working in sound and related fields, that wish to share their ideas and findings at the Research Networking Day. Stay tuned for the second CTM 2017 announcement in late November. The full CTM 2017 programme will be available in January 2017. › www.ctm-festival.de A division of DISK / CTM – Baurhenn, Rohlf, Schuurbiers GbR • Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin, Germany Tax Number 34/496/01492 • International VAT Number DE813561158 | 1 | Bank Account: Berliner Sparkasse • BLZ: 10050000 • KTO: 636 24 508 • IBAN: De42 1005 0000 0063 6245 08 • BIC: BE LA DE BE FIRST PROGRAMME ANNOUNCEMENT The CTM 2017 music programme will feature: Actress [UK] / “Bight of the Twin,” film by Hazel Hill McCarthy III [US] / CTM x Set [IR] feat Sote with Arash Bolouri, Behrou Pashaei and Tarik Barri, Siavash Amini, 9T Antiope / Enrique Tomás – “Embodied Gestures” [ES] / Gazelle Twin – “Kingdome Come” [UK] / Genesis P. Orridge with Aaron Dilloway [UK/US] / Julian Bonequi – “The Death of the Anthropocene [MX] / Monolake – “VLSI Surround” [DE] / NON Worldwide [INT] in collaboration with Ligia Lewis, feat. Chino Amobi, Nkisi, Angel Ho, Dedekind Cut, Embaci, DJ Lady Lane / Moor Mother [US] / Princess Nokia [US] / Rima Najdi with Kathy Alberici and Ana Nieves Moya – “Happy New Fear” [INT] / Tanya Tagaq [CA] / Thomas Ankersmit – “Infra” [NL] / Tommy Genesis [CA] / Vomir [FR] The world premiere of the installation “SOL” by Kurt Hentschläger [AT] Supported by CTM’s exhibition Critical Constellations of the Audio-Machine in Mexico by Carlos Prieto Acevedo [MX]. We are thrilled to present the legendary, transgressive counter-cultural icon Genesis Breyer P-Orridge for a concert and film screening celebrating her rich history as a radical in both music and identity/gender politics. P-Orridge will perform together with former Wolf Eyes member and adventurous solo noise artist Aaron Dilloway. Director Hazel Hill McCarthy III will also be present for the screening of “Bight of the Twin,” a film created together with Genesis that follows what became an emotional search for Lady Jaye Breyer, P-Orridge’s deceased life partner. During a journey to Benin to explore the origins of Vodoun (Voodoo), P-Orridge was “serendipitously initiated” into an ancient ritual known as the “twin fetish,” a practice that held the promise of reconnecting her with Breyer’s spirit. The globally distributed collective NON Worldwide will appear with six of its members: Chino Amobi, Nkisi, Angel Ho, Dedekind Cut, Embaci and DJ Lady Lane, for a performance event created together with choreographer Ligia Lewis. NON achieved rapid success in its short two years of existence due to its multifaceted campaign of critique through genre bending musical explorations that twist and re- imagine pop culture and its derivatives. Comprised of artists and producers from Africa and the African diaspora, NON and its collaborators are committed to fucking with the powers that be through sound and live performance. Somewhere between variety show and spectacular abstraction, the vision of NON will meet the physical duress of Lewis’ powerful and energetic choreography in a hybrid live event co-produced with longtime CTM partner, HAU Hebbel am Ufer. CTM will team up with the Tehran-based SET Festival to present works at the forefront of the Iranian experimental electronic music scene. In a new commission, Ata ‘Sote’ Ebtekar will collaborate with celebrated audiovisual composer Tarik Barri and performers Arash Bolouri and Behrouz Pashaei on a project merging electronics with traditional acoustic instruments for a Persian techno apocalypse. Two additional acts, Siavash Amini and 9T Antiope, will likewise help to represent a nascent culture of sonic experimentation burgeoning in Tehran. This recent upsurge of creative activity is broadly a result of Iranian citizens’ ingenuity and resourcefulness in making the most of the piecemeal reform occurring over the past several years alongside internet-based research and grassroots artistic exertions. The programme is a collaboration with Goethe Institut, and contributes to the cultural programme complementing the exhibition "Die Teheran Sammlung" (The Tehran Collection), which will be presented at Gemäldegalerie Berlin from 04.12.2016 to 05.03.2017. | 2 | NYC-born individualist and trailblazer Princess Nokia fuses music styles of diverse diasporas and reaches out through fresh, brassy lyrics to fringe characters and category hybrids across the world: “banjee girls in Harlem, teen brides in the Middle East, gay boys in East Asia. Labels no longer matter.” Another figure representing the increasing prominence of iconoclastic female artists in underground hip hop is Vancouver native Tommy Genesis. Signed to Father’s Awful records for her 2015 debut LP, Genesis delights in weaving provocative lyrics around straightforward taste for sadomasochism and lusty memories, contrasting these with more contemplative, suggestive videos. A quietly rising voice catering to deep-web Soundcloud nerds around the globe, she’s capable of resurrecting memories of Cannibal Ox or early M.I.A. while drowning them in sleek rhythms worthy of Future or Young Thug. Philadelphia Afrofuturist Moor Mother, who attests that “sci-fi is reality,” will contribute the sonic activism she has described as “project-housing bop,” “slaveship punk,” and “witch rap.” Her music is a vessel for addressing the history of struggle and loss and the necessity of rebellion and endurance in the American black community. Tanya Tagaq is a Canadian Inuk throat singer from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. Through guttural groans, colossal breathing, and deeply spiritualistic performances, she translates ancient vocal traditions into a postmodern language. She approaches politics as directly as she does sound, understanding art as a weapon with which to fight for women’s and indigenous rights. Her appearance will commemorate the October 2016 release of her album, Retribution. Actress has always made it his business to expose the sensitive nerve endings of London rave culture. Years of experimentation and refinement have earned him a sound that lives and revels in the emotional haze between the strict grid lines of techno and 2-step. Shape platform supported artist Thomas Ankersmit, is similarly devoted to music at its most intrusive and gargantuan, will present his new multi-layered composition, “INFRA,”at Berghain. The work explores the artistic, musical, and perceptual potential of infrasound, triggering strong emotional reactions from unease and angst to awe and even spiritual catharsis. Radical prophet of anti-music Romain Perrot aka Vomir is known for his uncompromising “harsh noise walls.” For him, static sound at the limits of listenability is an opportunity for both isolation and immersion, embodying an existential nihilism and the wish to withdraw from society at large. Known for her restless, uneasy industrial pop, Gazelle Twin will return to CTM 2017 to present her latest work, “Kingdom Come”. The audiovisual performance, created together with filmmakers Chris Turner and Tash Tung, is inspired by J.G. Ballard’s final novel of the same name and explores contemporary suburban consumerism, terrorism and the rise of the political far right across Europe. Fast-forwarding into future sci-fi scenarios, Mexican artist Julian Bonequi’s commissioned work, “The Death of the Anthropocene”, imagines a series of one-on-one encounters between ordinary people and mysterious visitors – mutants, composite human-robot-animals, aliens… – painting humorous yet grim pictures of the future of humanity. Bonequi is one of two winners of the CTM 2017 Radio Lab, which with broadcasters