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the music plays here

Detect Sounds is a platform for inspiring and unconventional musical experiences. With a passion for electronic live music, classical music and new music, we organise two festivals as well as artist residencies.

what is detect?

Originating from the idea of being a platform for inspiring and unconventional musical experiences, Detect today consists of various music culture projects. Once a year we realise the Detect Classic Festival together with the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. In 2025, we will bring the Detect atmosphere to Switzerland for the first time at the Between Mountains Festival together with kfka.

With Ein Ding der Möglichkeit, we are also hosting a music residency programme in northern Germany.

Other formats included the detect Landpartie and the Detect Classic Sessions, which we filmed during the pandemic and which you can watch on YouTube.

our projects

detect classic festival

Since 2019, the Detect Classic Festival has been organised as a 3-day festival together with the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a team of music dramaturgical tinkerers and several art and cultural collectives from Bröllin, Leipzig and the surrounding area of Berlin. Since 2022, the venue has been Bröllin Castle in Fahrenwalde.

Shot of an orchestra but everyone is dressed in colorful clothing, smiling and there's a lot of movement.

* 8–10 August 2025, Schloss Bröllin *** 8–10 August 2025, Schloss Bröllin *** 8–10 August 2025, Schloss Bröllin *** 8–10 August 2025, Schloss Bröllin *** 8–10 August 2025, Schloss Bröllin **

between mountains

Born from the idea of bringing the concept of the Detect Classic Festival in Germany to Switzerland, this summer we are collaborating with kfka – Kollektiv für kulturelle Aufgaben (Collective for Cultural Tasks) to stage the first Between Mountains Festival in Hölstein in the canton of Basel-Landschaft.

* 19 July 2025, Holdenweid, Hölstein CH *** 19 July 2025, Holdenweid, Hölstein CH *** 19 July 2025, Holdenweid, Hölstein CH *** 19 July 2025, Holdenweid, Hölstein CH **

detect lab

Together with Ein Ding der Möglichkeit, a co-creation space on an old farm in northern Germany, we are realising residencies for musicians and music makers. At the end of the residency, the residents and neighbours have the opportunity to experience the developed materials live.

see autumn residencies & programme

People of different ages sitting around a drum set, played by an artist.

detect ensemble

With their backgrounds in contemporary music, classical music and jazz, six musicians explore musical communication channels: The Detect Ensemble has set itself the task of creating content that combines the qualities of different art music worlds, with the courage to embrace complexity and artistic innovation through a profound co-creation process.

© Sophia Hegewald
A diverse group of people standing together on stage, smiling and looking at the audience.