Its aim is to present the most outstanding international productions in adventurous, experimental and electronic music and audiovisual performance, as well as to reflect recent artistic and technical developments in panels, screenings and artist presentations.

club transmediale encourages the crossover of institutional, academic and subcultural contexts. It tries to uphold the idea of the "club" as a physical space whose uniqueness lies in its relative non-definition, giving a wide scope for the interplay of divergent media, formats and artistic approaches. CTM wants to provide a platform for the experimental development of the potentials of music and its interaction with visual art. In addition, it aims to make the results of this process accessible to a wider audience. As a forum of communication between artists, visitors and producers, it brings the social dimensions of media technology to center stage.

DISK Sessions:

DISK Sessions are conceived as an irregular series of performances and presentations for a small audience and present the work of artists, who engage in the experimental exploration of the acoustic realm and the relation of sound and image. It is a format to present material and projects in progress and to encourage a direct and personal communication between artist/presenter and audience.

The DISK Sessions take place at General Public, Berlin – a non profit project space that is located in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg.

WASTED:

WASTED is a series of mini-festivals to celebrate loud, fast, radical and mostly electronic new musics unified by a bold spirit of unrespectful dissent, unruly enthusiasm and a mountain of positive energy, that are generally summed up under the loose terms of Breakcore, Mash-Up or Raggacore.

WASTED originates from ideas offered to CTM by Jason Forrest and Pure – the two main forces behind all three WASTED festivals up to now – for its first installment as part of CTM.05 in February 2005. A CTM offshoot, WASTED nowadays is a festival in its own right. With CTM/DISK handling all production issues behind the scenes, offside music experts Forrest and Pure have both their hands free to reach deep into the music networks they are active parts of to bring up the most surprising line-ups, boasting from energy, humor, sonic mayhem and musical radicalism.

The distinct musical backgrounds of Forrest and Pure guarantee for high tension and a synthesis of contradictions to be found in the presented sounds itself: Blessed eloquent entertainer – and WASTED conferencier, who guides through the program – Jason Forrest, creates music that digests everything the international pop-archives have to offer and while doing so explodes from humor and wit. Pure, a Hardcore-Techno-protagonist from the very first hour, in recent years has moved on towards complex, dark and haunting soundscapes filled with sonic anger, intense drones and crunchy noise.