4 – 6 September 2025
Across three nights at the ICA, CTM Festival brings together six artists mutating folk traditions into the present, deep-diving into the materiality of electronic sound, and manifesting offbeat connections through disjointed narratives and madcap performance.
This third collaboration between CTM x ICA will again immerse visitors into the intersections between music, visuals, and performance, highlighting both organisations’ longtime commitment to pushing artistic dialogues across forms and practices.
With: Lyra Pramuk, aya x MFO, Emptyset, Tarta Relena, Violent Magic Orchestra, and KAVARI.
Across three nights at the ICA, CTM Festival brings together six artists mutating folk traditions into the present, deep-diving into the materiality of electronic sound, and manifesting offbeat connections through disjointed narratives and madcap performance.
This third collaboration between CTM x ICA will again immerse visitors into the intersections between music, visuals, and performance, highlighting both organisations’ longtime commitment to pushing artistic dialogues across forms and practices.
With: Lyra Pramuk, aya x MFO, Emptyset, Tarta Relena, Violent Magic Orchestra, and KAVARI.
Supported by the Goethe-Institut London.
Programme
NIGHT ONE: emptyset: Dissever + KAVARI (live)
Thursday 4 September, 7:30pm
We kick off the first night of CTM and ICA's 2025 collaboration with an evening of raw frequencies and fractured visions from Scottish-based artist and producer KAVARI and emptyset, performing a live iteration of their sixth album, Dissever.
NIGHT TWO: Lyra Pramuk + Tarta Relena
Friday 5 September, 7:30pm
Night two opens a portal to ancient echoes and future devotions with Lyra Pramuk presenting new album Hymnal and Catalan duo Tarta Relena, who fuse traditional vocal music with modern textures.
NIGHT THREE: aya & MFO + Violent Magic Orchestra
Saturday 6 September, 7:30pm
The final night of CTM leads you into an audiovisual labyrinth of raw confession and jagged abstraction. British producer aya and German light artist MFO deliver a searing AV performance. And Japanese collective Violent Magic Orchestra fuse black metal, techno, and strobing visuals in a feral, ecstatic descent into an abyssal dance ritual.
no. 236848.