Lynn Nandar Htoo, rEmPiT g0dDe$$, Gabriel Htoo, Sarah Hanan // Nídia & Valentina
CTM Festival 2025
Concert
Lynn Nandar Htoo © Promo
rEmPiT g0dDe$$ © Promo
Ticket Prices
24 Euro, reduced 19 Euro
Tickets are sold via the CTM Festival ticketing platform:
www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2025/tickets
This evening intertwines two explorations of resilience and transformation, where music becomes a vessel for connection across political, cultural, and environmental landscapes. Each performance evokes the power of music to transcend boundaries, bearing witness to both struggle and unity.
Commissioned by the CTM Radio Lab, Lynn Nandar Htoo and rEmPiT g0dDe$$’s "Resonant Resilience" explores the experiences of individuals displaced by the ongoing political turmoil in Myanmar and the harsh regulations faced by queer communities in Malaysia. Through field recordings and electronic compositions, they fuse soundscapes with dynamic visual art by Gabriel Htoo and Sarah Hanan.
Nídia and Valentina continuously meet 'on the road', sharing a sonic adaptation to the urgency and context of different environments. "Estradas" ("roads" in Portuguese), born from the Sicilian heat and refined under English rain, transcends cultural and environmental barriers, showcasing the duo’s rhythmic expertise and connection through intricate beats and infectious melodies.
Further informations: www.ctm-festival.de
Cast
With
Lynn Nandar Htoo
rEmPiT g0dDe$$
Gabriel Htoo
Sarah Hanan
Nídia & Valentina
Biographien
Lynn Nandar Htoo is a Burmese artist blending Myanmar’s traditional music with cutting-edge electronic rhythms to craft immersive sonic landscapes. A skilled sound designer, she also contributes innovative soundscapes to Southeast Asian cinema. Known for electrifying DJ sets across the region, her releases on Yes No Wave, Nusasonic, and ALIGN.ONLINE mirror the energy of her performances. Her music narrates Burmese heritage through modern dance synthesis, pushing boundaries in international residencies.
Victoria Yam is a leading figure in Southeast Asia's experimental electronic music scene, renowned for her innovative soundscapes and advocacy for decolonizing electronic music. Her work with the Goethe-Institut's Nusasonic initiative bridges Southeast Asian musical traditions with modern electronic forms, challenging conventional narratives. Yam serves as music editor for Magazine For Young Girls and hosts a radio show spotlighting Asian female musicians.
Gabriel Htoo is a visual artist and photographer known for capturing profound human emotions through her lens. Starting with film photography, she mastered light and shadow, developing a signature style blending natural light with a refined artistic vision. Her intimate, evocative imagery deeply resonates with viewers. Beyond photography, Htoo is a dynamic storyteller in the underground art scene, creating experimental films that challenge visual conventions.
Sarah Hanan is a Malaysian visual artist and designer whose work blends cultural imagery with contemporary aesthetics. Through digital media and subtle social commentary, she explores the complexities of human experience, weaving personal and collective narratives. Her art reflects the enigmatic aspects of existence while challenging perceptions of culture and technology.
Programme
Lynn Nandar Htoo, rEmPiT g0dDe$$, Gabriel Htoo, Sarah Hanan
„Resonant Resilience“
(World Premiere)
Nídia & Valentina
CTM 2025 will visit Radialsystem over seven consecutive days from 27 January to 2 February, uniting music experimentation and performances with a 5-day discourse programme and an artistic lab.
This festival edition will run without an overarching theme, instead exploring a series of new and ongoing thematic strands. One of several points of focus will be on how traditional art forms and aesthetics can be reinterpreted within modern sound and performance, outside of (self-)exoticisation and the uneven power dynamics created by mass-cultural and other stereotypes.
→ To the complete programme of CTM Festival 2025 at Radialsystem
Credits
The CTM Radio Lab is a project by Deutschlandfunk Kultur – Hörspiel / Klangkunst and CTM Festival in collaboration with ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst, Ö1 Kunst im Radio, and the sound art initiative tekhnē, which is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
The CTM 2025 Festival programme at Radialsystem is furthermore funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Goethe-Institut, Federal Foreign Office, the SHAPE+ platform that is supported by the European Union, Pro Helvetia, and the Embassy of the Netherlands.
Media partners: Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Refuge Worldwide, The Wire, The Berliner, Rausgegangen, taz. die tageszeitung and tip Berlin.
This evening intertwines two explorations of resilience and transformation, where music becomes a vessel for connection across political, cultural, and environmental landscapes. Each performance evokes the power of music to transcend boundaries, bearing witness to both struggle and unity.
Commissioned by the CTM Radio Lab, Lynn Nandar Htoo and rEmPiT g0dDe$$’s "Resonant Resilience" explores the experiences of individuals displaced by the ongoing political turmoil in Myanmar and the harsh regulations faced by queer communities in Malaysia. Through field recordings and electronic compositions, they fuse soundscapes with dynamic visual art by Gabriel Htoo and Sarah Hanan.
Nídia and Valentina continuously meet 'on the road', sharing a sonic adaptation to the urgency and context of different environments. "Estradas" ("roads" in Portuguese), born from the Sicilian heat and refined under English rain, transcends cultural and environmental barriers, showcasing the duo’s rhythmic expertise and connection through intricate beats and infectious melodies.
Further informations: www.ctm-festival.de
Cast
With
Lynn Nandar Htoo
rEmPiT g0dDe$$
Gabriel Htoo
Sarah Hanan
Nídia & Valentina
Biographies
Lynn Nandar Htoo is a Burmese artist blending Myanmar’s traditional music with cutting-edge electronic rhythms to craft immersive sonic landscapes. A skilled sound designer, she also contributes innovative soundscapes to Southeast Asian cinema. Known for electrifying DJ sets across the region, her releases on Yes No Wave, Nusasonic, and ALIGN.ONLINE mirror the energy of her performances. Her music narrates Burmese heritage through modern dance synthesis, pushing boundaries in international residencies.
Victoria Yam is a leading figure in Southeast Asia's experimental electronic music scene, renowned for her innovative soundscapes and advocacy for decolonizing electronic music. Her work with the Goethe-Institut's Nusasonic initiative bridges Southeast Asian musical traditions with modern electronic forms, challenging conventional narratives. Yam serves as music editor for Magazine For Young Girls and hosts a radio show spotlighting Asian female musicians.
Gabriel Htoo is a visual artist and photographer known for capturing profound human emotions through her lens. Starting with film photography, she mastered light and shadow, developing a signature style blending natural light with a refined artistic vision. Her intimate, evocative imagery deeply resonates with viewers. Beyond photography, Htoo is a dynamic storyteller in the underground art scene, creating experimental films that challenge visual conventions.
Sarah Hanan is a Malaysian visual artist and designer whose work blends cultural imagery with contemporary aesthetics. Through digital media and subtle social commentary, she explores the complexities of human experience, weaving personal and collective narratives. Her art reflects the enigmatic aspects of existence while challenging perceptions of culture and technology.
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