What better place to begin a festival examining futurity than a bell tower, that traditional demarcator of time. Before the invention of the mechanic clock, it was bell towers that manifested a concept of shared, public time. Pioneering musician Charlemagne Palestine will therefore launch transmediale.10 by ringing the bells of one of the world’s largest and most distinctive instruments – the Tiergarten Carillon, next to the HKW.

With this first set at the Café Stage, which is all about the strangeness of futurity, we get a taste of experimental sound art and music courtesy of Benjamin Laurent Aman. This is music that captures the senses by losing them!

transmediale.10 and CTM.10 are delighted to present two stunning works by some of the most important audiovisual performance artists today, that both address the materiality of moving images. Ryoji Ikeda, one of the world's finest electronic artists will perform his live set test pattern, and Jürgen Reble & Thomas Köner will mesmerise our sense with their live piece Materia Obscura.

In Elektrolab, the first of two performances which explore atemporal electrical inventions, a battery is created and dissected live on stage by Rachida Ziani & Dewi de Vree. Marvel at the audiovisual spectacle of energy being generated live...

Berlin-based musician and composer Lord Cry Cry presents a mixture of music regarded as futuristic when first released, alongside contemporary music which also anticipates the future – a special of mixes covering genres like avant-garde jazz, classical, electronic, reggae and dubstep.

This organ concert in Frazösischer Dom is the second chance to witness Charlemagne Palestine play live in the context of transmediale.10 and CTM.10. When playing the organ, Palestine famously uses a repetitive minimal technique, which elicits a glorious earsplitting resonance from the instrument. The audience is easily convinced they are witnessing a dozen organ players at once – an unforgettable experience.

In 2009 Atom TM aka Uwe Schmidt released two new albums, Liedgut on Raster-Noton and Muster on his own label, Rather Interesting. To celebrate, transmediale and CTM have invited this exceptional electronic musician in Berlin! The concert features Grischa Lichtenberger, Senking und Aoki Takamasa. To round it all up we will see Ulf Eriksson, DJ and organiser of the Full-Pull Festival in Malmö, spin a set of Detroit-style dance music.

A night of performance and music examining China as one of the motifs of FUTURITY NOW!. Featuring three artists who represent a new wave of Chinese practitioners working beyond the constraints of social, political or geographical identity; Feng Mengbo, FM3_Zhang (Zhang Jian) and aaajiao (Xu Wenkai).