This session is curated and presented in collaboration with Resident Advisor.

11:30 - 12:50, de Brakke Grond (Grote Zaal) ‍
Panel: Trois-Quatre Taxi System, LNR (Biodegradable Soundsystem), Woody92 (Omen Wapta)
Moderator: Chloe Lula (RA)

In the post-COVID era, demand for hard music grew exponentially, with the 4/4 hard techno boom serving as a prime example of maximalist outwards tension. At the same time, while being forced to go inwards in the lockdown days, other listeners were drawn to a very different continuum: the emergence of a dormant convergence of various music genres: psychedelic electronica, powerful ambient, trip-hop, and glitchy, sub-murged organic (poly)rhythms.

This session brings together music producers,DJs and researchers whose work moves along this broader historical and aesthetic arc. Together they trace how these influences persist, mutate and reappear across contemporary electronic music. Their perspectives span from the materiality of sound systems and the politics of DIY infrastructures to the shifting balance between intensity and fragility, propulsion and drift. The conversation explores how past and present lineages continue to inform the ways we build, imagine, and inhabit sonic worlds today.

This session is curated and presented in collaboration with Resident Advisor.

13:10 - 14:30, de Brakke Grond (Grote Zaal)
Speakers: Alberta Balsam, Femke Dekker , Nicolas Geysens (AMBRIO Sound), Jan Rohlf (CTM Festival) Moderation: Jarl Schulp

We’re currently experiencing a shift in electronic music and club culture, where audiences, producers, DJ’s and promoters are increasingly focusing on listening events or unique sonic experiences. While clubs are struggling to stay alive with regular club nights, the attention for listening contexts and spatial/immersive sound experiences has an enormous momentum. 

Worldwide more-and-more new unique spatial sound, immersive media and listening-focussed locations are opening. Soundsystem builders are experimenting with new setups and alternative locations or listening contexts. Simultaneously there is a change in behaviour amongst audiences; the rise of a more grounded relationship with night culture, an interest in the spatial dimensions of sound, spaces and interactions with psychedelic and spiritual domains.

In this panel we try to explore and envision how these developments will influence the future dancefloor or electronic music performance space. Where are we now? What access do the artists have to access the current wave of immersive sound developments? And how can a focus on new listening cultures potentially change the production and experience of music and sound?

15:40 - 17:00, de Brakke Grond (Grote Zaal)
Speakers: Mariana Berezovska (lecture), Louis Braddock Clarke (artist talk)

The ‘Fragile Territories’ session focuses on how visual and sound artists tell urgent stories about environmental damage and its consequences for both human and non-human lives, caused by invasive forces. They explore the often overlooked aspects of the extraction industry, ecocide and war crimes through audiovisual performances and music.

Mariana Berezovska researches and presents collaborations between artists and scientists who create audiovisual projects about the extensive environmental destruction caused by russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. She will talk about the projects Echoes of the Earth and Disturbed Ground (a collaboration between Kyiv’s ∄, u2203 and CTM Festival).

A very different kind of invasion is about to unfold around the world, as numerous deep-sea mining companies are assembling their forces on the borders of unknown deep-sea ecosystems. Artist Louis Braddock Clarke introduces us to his practice at the intersection of sound, geopolitics, geology and disrupted ecologies. Highlighting his newest long-term project Roving Rare Earth.

17:30 - 18:30, de Brakke Grond (Grote Zaal)
Speakers: Dean Spade (Remote) & Rachael Rakes
Moderation: Abdo Hassan

Mutual aid, care and love in times of polycrises

In a world shaped by escalating crises, extractive systems and widening inequalities, writer and scholar Dean Spade invites us to rethink how collective care, mutual aid and community-based forms of resistance can become practical forces of change and survival. His work translates political and relational theory into clear, usable tools for organising care, sustaining movements and building relationships that can withstand ongoing crises. 

Reflecting on the newly expanded edition of Mutual Aid and his recent writing on how to love in a damaged world, Dean Spade explores how fragile forces such as interdependence, softness and shared responsibility and everyday acts of solidarity can strengthen resilience where repair feels impossible. Rather than viewing fragility as weakness, this keynote asks how we might cultivate forms of solidarity that can hold us while we navigate the uncertainties of our time.

Fri May 29 + Sat May 30 | de Brakke Grond
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Thu May 28 | murmur
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