Berlin: Club Transmediale

Promoter-Curators Club Transmediale are working hard on this year's festival for adventurous music and visual arts in Berlin. Held between January 28th and February 7th 2010, this year it goes under the name OVERLAP [the second part of their Structures programme] and pushes multi discipline media - art, music and new technologies - together to explore just how far self-created music and experimental audiovisual culture can go in the next decade. That's like TV and Music and The Internet and Films and Noise Art and All That. "It will again be entering unknown territory" say the organisers, whose previous work includes the Structures Node events , the Wasted series and AV. Disk Sessions in cities all over Europe [see great parties with cool noise].



It's an important role to fill. As the media and previously separate 'creative' sectors get mixed up, we need to take a new look at how our visual and audio cultures fit together. Some teenagers' musical tastes are dictated entirely by TV reality shows, adverts and Zac Efron's abs while others are far too into in a web-culture that sits at home trying to spot the next new thing rather than realising just how great live shows are. Club Transmediale will confront all of these things, "previously fixed roles are now in flux" they add, "the discussion on how mutations in music culture should be framed continues...".




Oh yeah. And they'll also be throwing a great party. It is Berlin after all. See UK acts like hyper-dub Joker, Mount Kimbie or Four Tet doing what he does best. Glass Candy play alongside Hot Chip DJs while the reliably great Andy Votel DJs later in the week. It's also a time to hear something different; explore new music from Tok Tek, Mount Sims and Dubco. Need a preview? A compilation, available exclusively from zero" , will be available for free download from the middle of January until the last day of the festival.

With tracks by:
Patric Catani
Funckarma
Hildur Gudnadottir
Aoki Takamasa
Joris Voorn
Guido Möbius
Glass Candy
Desire
Ony Ayhun
Etienne Jaumet
and others.

CTM are also be entering a whole new venue. This year the festival will be held at the reopened WMF, home to the Lost.And.Found series, BPitch nights and Man Recordings club nights, with extra daytime events happening at .HBC, the office corridors of the former Hungarian centre.

View the whole of the programme by clicking on the words 'now what are the cheapest flights I can get?'