CTM Festival 2026 - dissonate < > resonate

Running 23 January – 1 February 2026 at Radialsystem, Berghain, RSO.Berlin, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Morphine Raum, and Haus der Visionäre, CTM Festival’s 27th edition dives into the complex dance between dissonance and resonance, where ephemeral textures and oscillating frequencies evoke existence in multiple, often extremely contradictory realities simultaneously. The CTM 2026 theme dissonate < > resonate invites us to inhabit the spaces in-between: the charged fields where frequencies meet, clash, and sometimes unexpectedly converge in moments of shared attunement.

Highlights in our programme announced thus far offer glimpses into a dedicated spatial sound programme in collaboration with d&b audiotechnik, commissions exploring sonic traditions from contemporary perspectives, collaborations with Seoul’s WeSA Festival, Kyiv’s ∄, the music collectives Terminal and No_Stone and more. Spanning concert and club programmes, our current lineup tunnels through doom and drone, erupting in blackened choral metal and EBM fury, and mutating into amalgams of hyperpop, noise-laced chaos, and bass-heavy tropical heat.

Weekend passes are now available, as well as tickets to many events, and a limited number of full festival passes remain on sale. More acts, workshops, the festival exhibition, and a collaboration with Refuge Worldwide will be announced mid-December. Our Discourse programme will be announced in January.