New geographies

This 104-page publication was created on occation of CTM 2016 Festival Berlin, and explores the festival’s namesake New Geographies theme. Digitisation and globalisation are profoundly transforming the contemporary music landscape towards increased cultural hybridity. The course of these changes is reflected in today’s music as it tests relationships between local and global practices and technology, regional identity and the cosmopolitan reach, physical locations and virtual social spaces, and between human agency and autonomous processes in nature and technology. Feedback arses within these new hybrids, creating short-circuits that extend the possibilities and repertoire of current music even further. The CTM 2016 Magazine assembles a range of essays and articles authored by music journalists, researchers, theorists and artists, exploring the central roles that this hybridity and relational geography now plays in the global music scene. From discussions of „exotism“ to the pervasive habit of of describing music through localisations, and from portraits of individual artists and networks to inspection of music's „moral geographies“, the magazine includes contributions from: Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, Mari Matsutoya, Sandeep Bhagwati, Justyna Stasiowska, Rob Thorne, Luke Turner and more. Their pieces are accompanied by a handful of artworks from artists Tianzhou Chen, Akihiko Taniguchi and others.