The winning projects for this year's CTM Radio Lab open call have been announced. Out of 135 entires from 38 countries, two submissions were chosen: Dani Gal & Ghazi Barakat's Altered State Solution and NUM's Nothingness; Life, Nothingness. The panel was made up of artist Nene H aka Beste Aydin, Elisabeth Zimmerman from ORF Kunstradio, Marcus Gammel from Deutschlandfunk Kultur Radio Art / Klangkunst
, the managing director of CTM Jan Rohlf, and The Wire's deputy editor Emily Bick.

The open call sought radio and live performance or installation submissions addressing the CTM 2020 theme Liminal. Winners receive €5000 plus technical/staging costs with additional funds for travel considered. Works will be premiered at CTM 2020 and broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Österreichischer Rundfunk.

For Berlin-based artists Dani Gal & Ghazi Barakat's submission, they consider noise as “an ambiguous space between the disruptive and the creative, and between the oppressive and the subversive.” Inspired by Claude Shannon’s Mathematical Theory of Communication, Gal and Barakat percieve noise as a liminal space and will use techniques of radio jamming, a method of blocking radio transmissions used widely by the Soviet Union and seen today in China, Iran and North Korea.

For duo NUM's project, Maryam Sirvan and Milad Bagheri will create a new work that deals with three stages of time: past, present and future. Incorporating these stages into a graphic score, the project will be a personal voyage into the couple's own experiences as musicians from Iran without formal music training.

More information on the artists and their chosen works can be found on CTM's website. CTM 2020 will run between 24 January–2 February.