CTM 2026: CORIN, Sote

In collaboration with Berlin's Forecast Mentorship program, CTM 2026 features a pillar of Iran’s experimental music community and a rising crafter of mythic resonance.

The premiere of Sote's »Sound Design In Far Sea« is a live exploration departing from the confines of structure. Transformed echoes of Persian instruments and field recordings from Iran dissolve into shimmering layers of synthesis, microscopic sonic detail and tactile density shaping a landscape where memory turns liquid and history drifts through circuitry. Performed in an immersive surround format using the d&b Soundscape system, it submerges the audience in a sea of disorientation and awe, a shifting zone where resonance and abstraction entwine as light refracted underwater.

Haunted by future folklore, the work of CORIN blends trance, baroque-inspired ambience, and hyper-digital textures with her classical background to create hybrid sonic worlds where western classical, contemporary electronic, and non-western forms converge. Her performance »Resonance« creates harmonic and rhythmic systems within non-Western musical ecologies by sampling the kulintang, a Filipino precolonial gong chime instrument: alternate futures tethered to ancestral memory.