CTM 2027: Spatial Radiants

NOTE: Pre-sale tickets are not full capacity. Tickets will be available at the door. Further artists TBA for all floors.

On the main floor, Cinna Peyghamy is a delver into the affinities of sound. At the centre of the French-Iranian composer’s practice squats the Persian tombak drum; entwined with and perpetually transformed by its presence hums an elaborate constellation of oscillators, resonators, control voltages, and signal pathways through which each strike may acquire an unforeseen afterlife.

Showcasing her new album Ruin: It’s Not Just Music in a special multi-channel spatial format, the harmonic expanses and intricate melodic ecologies of Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s earlier work remain, but beneath them now breakbeats and drum-and-bass patterns splinter through a dense strata of synthesis.

Yoinking from Durban gqom, São Paulo baile funk, Baltimore club and British bass, Zimbabwe-born producer State OFFF juggles their cavernous low frequencies and abrupt rhythmic dislocations, flipped to compel unfamiliar movement.

Performing a hybrid live set, Nadia Struiwigh carries in her a dancefloor eloquence built of subterranean techno and the protean vocabularies of jungle and drum and bass, peppered with the most exploratory of IDM.

In Panorama Bar, SHERELLE’s musical idiom is a whirling reverie of breakbeats, sub-bass detonations, serried percussion and highly precipitous syncopations. At tempos exceeding 160 BPM, her selections are possessed of the headlong momentum of a machine operating at the outermost limits of its ingenuity; yet their exhilaration derives from an exacting comprehension of rhythmic architecture and the so-delicate art of juxtaposition.

T.NO’s drumcentric DJ flavors deliver a finely-tuned force of percussion + concussion. His Surinamese roots touch both sets and productions, evoking the souls of gqom, grime, kawina, bubbling, kuduro and funk carioca into sheer dynamic flow.

DJ Strawberry’s productions possess a kinetic intelligence, combining Chicago footwork velocity with Japanese minimalism, bolstered by a microscopic attention to repetition and rhythmic displacement.