CTM’s 24th edition will take place at the end of January at Berghain, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, silent green, radialsystem, and other Berlin venues. Sound and music open portals to other realities and to the experiences of others. As such they transport us to real, speculative, and imaginary worlds, which in turn always point back to the reality of a world’s creator. Yet in thinking about music as portals and practices of world-building, one must inevitably also deal with questions of access and exclusion.

CTM 2023 uses the metaphor of Portals as curatorial shapes through which, on the one hand, we attempt to make contact with specific modes of experience, histories, communities, and speculative futures, and, on the other, reflect on the preconditions, thresholds, regulation, and fundamental function of sound and music as gateways to other realities. The Research Networking Day open call invites students and junior researchers to submit proposals to present their research and exchange with other colleagues and researchers working on related ideas