// Date: FRI 05/02 & SAT 06/02
// Time: 15–12:00
// Venue: [.HBC]
// Entrance free

The 5 & 6 February 2010 are earmarked for the second edition of the Creative Independents Network Market, an event at which we warmly welcome anyone active in the field of independent audio and media cultures.

In its first decade of hard-won existence, CTM has earned itself an impressive international following among audio and media professionals – and it continues to grow. In 2009, well over 1000 institutions, initiatives and businesses from music, design, media and the arts applied for joint accreditation to CTM and its concurrent sister festival transmediale – International Festival for Art and Digital Culture. Today, the two festivals have become a vital port of call on the international circuit, a venue where not only visiting professionals, but everyone can learn about the latest creative innovations, make new contacts, initiate projects and found partnerships.

That’s why we are once again offering visiting professionals a networking-forum: the Creative Independents Network Market. On the 5 & 6 February, on some 1000 sqm. in one of this year’s new Festival venues – the .HBC on Alexanderplatz in Berlin-Mitte – any representatives of institutions, initiatives, projects and businesses who are committed to independent audio and media cultures can take the opportunity to present their activities and products to a broad public.

Entrance to the market is free, so stand-holders can reach not only visiting professionals but also our young festival fans, whose interest in music, arts and media is clearly alive and kicking.

Participation in the Creative Independents Network Market is free for the representatives of small initiatives, projects and businesses. Admittedly, we do charge the regular Accreditation Fee of 40,-EUR per person But this means that, by participating in the Market, you are automatically guaranteed free access to almost every event, for the entire duration of both CTM.10 und transmediale.10. If you are already accredited, you of course are not required to re-apply. However, don’t forget that you still have to register your market participation.

To register, please fill out the PDF-form and send it to us by fax or email. Confirmation of your reservation will be sent to you shortly.

Andreas Gogol
> email
> tel. ++49 30 44041852
> fax. ++49 30 44045827

// Celebrating the Convergence of Games, Art, and Music

A MAZE. Interact is a festival about the convergence of computer games, art and music, organized by a group of Berlin game experts. It takes place within CTM.10 in cooperation with CTM and other international cooperation partners. With its main focus on the increasing convergence of computer games and music, A MAZE. Interact will be an essential contribution to CTM.10’s theme OVERLAP – Sound & Other Media.

A MAZE. Interact – Celebrating the Convergence of Games, Art, and Music analyses computer game culture from a cultural, aesthetic and social point of view. It puts the critical appropriation and continued development of computer games as an artistic medium to centre stage – and at the same time takes a look at the every day use of computer games produced by the arts and entertainments industry. It reflects on the structural changes in the cultural market places and links the emerging game cultures with developments in the fields of contemporary music and art.

A MAZE. Interact at CTM.10 consists of six modules: the one-day Game-Music Symposium, a series of Game-Art Workshops, the Games Culture Circle (GCC) and the Music-Games Exhibition, all presented at the festival’s daytime venue HBC. At WMF, the festival’s night venue, the Jump’n Run Bonus Cheat club night presents music, graphics and interactive performances informed by game aesthetics. The Global Game Jam (GGJ), an international game design event, will take place within the festival on January 30 & 31 and simultaneously at about 100 locations around the world.

The core program of A MAZE. Interact takes place from January 29 to February 2, while the exhibition will be on display over the course of the whole festival from January 29 till February 6.

> amaze-festival.de
> globalgamejam.org

A MAZE. Interact is organized by the A MAZE. GbR Liebe Wiedemann and supported by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.

CTM.10 partner Hotel Agon offers special rates for festival visitors. The
Agon is situated at Berlin Alexanderplatz in 10 minutes walking distance
from CTM.s two main venues WMF and .HBC. It is a decent, quality 3-star hotel.

Special rates for festival visitors – includes breakfast:
> > 26.01 – 02.02.10
> > Preis / Classic ( 1Pax): 65,00€ pro Zimmer / Nacht
> > Preis / Classic ( 2Pax): 75,00€ pro Zimmer / Nacht
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> > 03.02 – 05.02.10
> > Preis / Classic ( 1Pax): 104,00€ pro Zimmer / Nacht
> > Preis / Classic ( 2Pax): 113,00€ pro Zimmer / Nacht
> >
> > 06.02 – 08.02.10
> > Preis / Classic ( 1Pax): 65,00€ pro Zimmer / Nacht
> > Preis / Classic ( 2Pax): 75,00€ pro Zimmer / Nacht

Reservations can only be made by phone: +49 30 275727 0. You need to give
the code Wort: “club transmediale” and your creditcard number as a deposit.
http://www.agon-am-alexanderplatz.de/

On Monday February 1st, 2010, CTM.10 will host the world debut of the mysterious Apparatjik project with a very special performance.

Inspired by the Bauhaus movement, the ‘Bauhaus Bühne’, and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy’s work ‘Light-Space-Modulator’ from 1930 in particular, this first ever performance of Apparatjik will take place inside a specially constructed cube at the newly reopened WMF.

Apparatjik is a project fusing scientific interest and artistic effort. Apparatjik consists of Guy A, Jonas A, Magne A and Martin A.

Find out more on Apparatjik:

> http://apparatjik.com

> PRESALE

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YOKOMONO-PRO AT CTM.10

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With an eye on CTM.10, Geert-Jan Hobijn / Staalplaat Soundsystem (http://www.staalplaat.org) and sound artists Ilpo Vaisanen and Mika Vainio (Pan Sonic) are busy preparing the outdoor sound-performance-action ‘Yokomono-Pro’. Staalplaat Soundsystem has won international renown for public actions devoted to investigating the sound properties of everyday objects, gadgets and different varieties of architecture, and immersing the audience in new auditory experiences.

We still need YOU!
For the performance on Sunday, 31 January 2010, we need a total of 30 volunteers, each with his/her own car, to be sound-drivers.

Yokomono-Pro features several groups of cars – 30 vehicles in total – playing synched sound-patterns and driving a carefully choreographed route around a specific (tba) location for a period of approx. 30 minutes. Each vehicle’s battery is hooked up to a specially designed horn that is triggered by low-frequency transmitters linked to a central controlling unit. After dividing the vehicles/drivers into groups and assigning each a specific route, Ilpo Vaisanen and Mika Vainio are able to ‘play’ them like an instrument: the interaction of choreographed traffic and the horns’ sound patterns creates a composition tailored to the spatial dimensions of the action. YOUTUBE

The low-frequency transmitters will not interfere with any ‘official’ radio signals. The vehicles’ original horns remain independent of the added-on ‘action-horns’ and function as per usual at all times. Installation of the extra components is temporary and simple. No original car parts will be modified or removed so there is no danger of damage to participants’ vehicles.

Nor does the action restrict or impair public traffic. The individual movements that make up the car-choreography (changing lanes, stopping, etc) proceed in compliance with German traffic regulations.

If you interested in taking part in this extraordinary experiment and have a car at hand, please drop us a line at:yokomono@clubtransmediale.de

At the invitation of CTM.10 and the transmediale.10, Charlemagne Palestine will give a 90 min (approx) concert on 5 February, on the Eule organ and grand piano of the Französischer Dom, at Berlin’s Gendarmenmarkt. The performance is titled “Spektral Continuum Berlin 2010″. On Tuesday, 2 February 2010 at 19:00, Charlemagne Palestine will give the free concert “Tintinnabulations for Tomorrow and Tomorrow” on the grand Tiergarten Carillon, to mark the opening of the transmediale.10 Festival. The Tiergaten carillon is one of the world’s largest and most distinctive carillons, comprising 68 bells weighing a total of 48 tonnes. It is a striking modernist element of contemporary Berlin, and a unique auditory quirk in time, space and history. American composer, musician, performer and artist Charlemagne Palestine has close links with American Minimalist music of the 1960s. However, he chose to follow his own path early in his career. In contrast to the more light-hearted Minimalism of his contemporaries La Monte Young, Phillip Glass, Terry Riley and Steve Reich, Palestine took a more ritualistic approach. For more than forty years, he has used the existential intensity of his drone-based ‘resonant music’ to fathom the transcendent qualities of sound. Charlemagne Palestine was born in 1945 in New York and studied at New York University, Columbia University, Mannes College of Music and at the California Institute of the Arts. He is a professional cantor and one of the world’s few contemporary carillonists. In the 1960s he worked as a bell ringer in St. Thomas’ Church in New York, which is why his earliest compositions were created specifically for bells. “I lived near the bells, played them right next to my body. The sound became physical, visceral, each crack of the clapper was like a small earthquake”, says Palestine. Palestine has produced more than twenty solo albums and given concerts worldwide, alone and in the company of artists such as Pan Sonic, Tony Conrad, David Coulter, Phill Niblock and Michael Gira. He has also exhibited visual artwork at various venues, including the documenta 8. Palestine is, however, best known for works for piano and organ. By slowly superimposing and thus transforming overtones and drones over lengthy periods of time, he lures from his instruments a chilling crescendo of sound that may culminate in noise. One feature of Palestine’s musical style is the so-called ’strumming’ effect, percussive repetitions that give rise to dense, hypnotic rhythms. A sparse yet persistent scattering of alternating notes generates shimmering overtone clusters with rich and unusual timbres. Often of several hours duration, Palestine’s performances are akin to shamanistic rituals. Both his music and the way he performs it are a testament to physical intensity taken to its outermost limits and, simultaneously, to otherworldly transcendence. Palestine seeks an expansion of time and space; the trance-like experience. Music critic Brian March describes the experience thus: “There’s a transcendent timelessness about Charlemagne Palestine’s music that makes me feel as if it will always be around”. The very title that Charlemagne Palestine has chosen for his performance in the extraordinary space of the Französischer Dom – “Spectral Continuum Berlin 2010″, emphasizes that experience. Palestine’s music is vertical in the sense that it generates a state of vertical temporality or of timelessness. His pieces have neither a beginning nor an end. Rather, they consist of stratifications marked by an absence of linear progression. Although they exhibit an overwhelming dynamism, his pieces remain substantially unchanged throughout their course. What we hear seems to be an excerpt from a continuum that may well ring for eternity, an infinitely extended present that makes past and future fade away. For tickets for Charlemagne Palestine’s concert at the Französischer Dom on February 5, please go Tickets

Alexis O’Hara, sound artist from Montreal, is seeking your kind contributions in the imminent construction of Squeeeeque, The Speakerbox Igloo, a sound installation that will be presented at Club Transmediale 2010 starting 29th January.

This igloo is made of sound! The first igloo was built in Montreal, photos can be found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/volcanohara/sets/72157617962129251/ Seeking donations of broken and unbroken (please!) speakerboxes, specifically speakers housed in wooden boxes. Guitar amps would also be great. Also needed are two stereo amplifiers. Donations can be dropped off at Schoenhauser Allee 167C 10435 Berlin (U-Bahnhof Senefelderplatz) at the office Club Transmediale or call 030-44041852 (ask for Anne Pranz) to arrange for pick up within Berlin.

Or send an email to Anne Pranz:      anne@clubtransmediale.de

Early Bird Tickets at special advance rate only available until DEC 18th

Go to the ticketshop

Program preview is online and most details now confirmed.

See the program here or visit our last.fm page to listen to selected tracks of CTM.10 artists!