CTM 2025: Tarta Relena + 33

8pm: Tarta Relena

Tarta Relena’s music emerges as a dialogue between the rich vocal traditions of the Mediterranean and the subtle whispers of synthetic nuance. Layered harmonies and sonic experimentation uncover new resonances in age-old melodies, drawing on diverse vocal techniques—flamenco’s raw intensity, the precision of lyrical singing, and the fluidity of jazz. Folklore is treated as a mutable and living tradition.

Evoking resynthesis—a processing method in computer music that analyzes sounds to extract their fundamental components—as a guiding metaphor, the thematic strand features performances, talks and an artistic lab that in various ways confront conservative views of culture as something frozen, solidified, and generally untouchable, thus resistant to any transformative practices.

Unconfined by historical boundaries; melodies from the oral traditions of Sephardic Jews, Sappho’s poetry, and medieval hymnody are reinterpreted, suffused with a shared, time-transcendent language: grief and joy, divinity and earthliness, dissolving into a singular resonance.

9pm: 33

A multisensory experience that smears the lines between concert and performance art, Berlin-based music ensemble 33 emerged as a collaborative force between artist-filmmaker-musician Alexander Iezzi and experimental composer-performance artist Billy Bultheel. The duo craft a mutant vision blending experimental soundscapes with classical elements and draw from an eclectic mix of musical collaborations.