CTM 2025: Elischa Heller + Plus44Kaligula
Returning to silent green in 2025 for their 26th edition, CTM Festival brings a host of adventurous and transgressive concerts once more. Concerts, performances and multisensory experiences from avant-garde music ensemble 33, Heinali and Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko’s reimagining of Hildegard von Bingen, the genre-defying These New Puritans returning with their first LP since 2019, the Egyptian composer Yara Mekawei and Spooky-J –the British electronic architect behind Nihiloxica’s rhythmic force—bringing the raw intensity of traditional Bugandan percussion with the throbbing pulse of underground techno.
6pm: Elischa Heller
To collapse inward without shattering—this is the sensation Elischa Heller conjures. Suturing digitalismans into the sinews of performance art, auto-tuned vocals and fragile futurisms collide with shrieking beats, layered noise, and expansive drones. The resulting aural births feel like living contradictions: equal parts synthetic and feral, a sleek internet-born vision that still breathes, pulses, and smells faintly of incense.
7pm: Plus44Kaligula
The compositions of Plus44Kaligula operate as aural landscapes, collaging fragments of ambient pads, glitch-ridden textures, and machine choirs into immersive environments that defy linearity. The voice—a central axis of her work—shifts fluidly from stark, raw confessions to near-operatic proclamations, threading together her penchant for surreal theatricality with the visceral weight of sincerity. This interplay between the synthetic and the human evokes a liminal space, both alien and intimate, where Plus44Kaligula’s audiences are simultaneously disoriented and anchored.
Festival passes are on sale now, along with further program details. More acts, and event details and tickets will be released as of December.
For 25 years, CTM has been highlighting new strains of underground club culture and art that ventures through the weird, the challenging, the cathartic, the esoteric, the contagious, and the ecstatic – simultaneously exploring sonic histories, contexts, and political and technological entanglements.
Friday, January 24
Doors 5pm / Start 6pm
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