"Berlin in the 90s was not the cosmopolitan city it is today; much of the music scene did not look far beyond its own connections and experiences. CTM’s founders were then active in Berlin’s club and art scenes, and struck by the novel role of clubs as extended art spaces, relatively free from convention and fundamentally based on the interplay of various artistic and social practices. Many artists active in this context weren’t musicians first and foremost, and saw their work and its settings as continuously shifting and necessarily hybrid. Despite this supposedly porous social and cultural character, exchanges between nightlife and other communities were yet to be developed, as was its wider recognition as a serious form of art. ...”
Burnt Friedmann's Korg synth at CTM.
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