CTM

On his new album, Lunng, Sam Slater composes evocative, multifaceted, and haunting music from electronic and acoustic sounds, which gains intensity through Lukas Feigelfeld's compelling cinematic visuals and Theresa Baumgartner's immersive lighting design. Feigelfeld's uncanny images, filmed from the cockpit of a car, combine with Baumgartner's immersive lighting design to create dense, unsettling atmospheres.

The interplay creates a hypnotic pull, within which a dialogue unfolds between the identity-forming urgency of listening to music on youthful road trips and the pressing reality of the present. Memory and the present merge into a disorienting, sonically and visually polyphonic hallucination, where one eye is fixed on the rearview mirror and the other onward into the unknown. The AV concert's stage premiere features guest appearances by Maria Horn, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Hilary Jeffery, and Cavid Dheng.

Songwriter and singer Emma Ruth Rundle is a restless spirit on the fringes of doom-folk and ambient existentialism, drawn to shadows and myths. Her last album, *Engine of Hell*, explored the existential homelessness of emotional openness and psychological vulnerability. Since then, her work has shifted even further inward, exploring restraint and negative space as active forces. Guitar, piano, and voice are her central tools. In her music, silence carries as much weight as melody. It now unfolds less as narrative songwriting and more as emotional architecture, as slowly burning structures honed by the harsh winds of grief and memory.

The concert is the second evening of the CTM Festival 2026, which takes place from January 23 to February 1, 2026, at various venues in Berlin. Under the motto "dissonate < > resonate," the 27th edition of the CTM Festival explores the complex dance between dissonance and resonance, in which spectral textures, melodies on the fringes of tonality, and frequencies oscillating between harmony, distortion, and sharp breaks address the simultaneous existence in multiple, often extremely contradictory, realities.