classic festival 2024

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Live Act & DJ

AFAR

The duo AFAR attempts to explore the paradox between the organic and the electronic. In some places, AFAR builds up danceable rhythms underpinned by haunting vocals, while in others the band creates ambient moments consisting of multi-instrumental soundscapes.

Reading

Alina Sauernheimer

Alina Sauernheimer searches for intersections and predetermined breaking points; in the text, in (public) space and in interdisciplinary collaboration with other artists.

Anja & John

Anja and John are friends and neighbours who sometimes play records and digital traxx together, usually with an ear towards proper underground techno and UK Bass.

Anne in the woods with her eyes closed, surrounded by nature's beauty.

Anne Regler

Anne Regler serves up a colourful, wild mix of beats from all over the world and weaves them into a unique sound journey. Whether Afro Cumbia from Peru, Hip Hop from New York or IDM made in Berlin - you never know what's coming next. Spontaneous witch circles on the dance floor and expressive dance interludes are invited and encouraged.

Live Act

Are Women People?

The pianist Magdalena Wohlfahrt and the singer Carlotta Lipski deal with the collection of poems by the sufragette Alice Due Miller.

Armonia Táctil, surrounded by white balloons.

Performance & DJ

Armonía Táctil

Armonía Táctil is a multidisciplinary artist, dancer and teacher whose music selection is inspired by the tactile qualities of sound. Her blend of ambient and experimental sounds offers a sonic journey through an immersive world of different consistencies, textures and materials.

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Live Act

Arutani

Arutani loves to play with mystical and energetic synth sounds that underlie a driving, detail-oriented groove often combined with unusual samples.

Live Act

Athenaïs

As a singer and musician, Athenaïs enchants her audience with her enchanting vocals, which harmoniously combine 80s synths, poetic lyrics, field recordings and improvised melodies. Inspired by genres such as psychedelic rock, dark disco and synth-pop, she mixes electronic and acoustic elements in her music.

B.Clarke

B.Clarke is a Chilean DJ who immersed herself in the Berlin music scene nine years ago. In her sets, she aims to create a balance between deep house, minimal house, climaxes, landscapes, memories and good vibes. She puts out upbeat rhythms full of energy that you can dance to all night long.

Workshop

Badania

Badania gives a creative workshop on the Kids' Floor.

Live Act & Workshop

Bison Rouge

Bison embodies the earthy, analog sound of a cello, while Rouge ignites with electric flow and soulful vocals. Together they are a female force of nature in electronics, ambient classical and modern folk.

Three men in a tunnel, one wearing a hat.

Live Act

Bobby Rausch

Their concerts lead audiences through deep bass valleys, through pulsing groove scapes and the urban night. Handmade in Berlin!

Bogdan Krawalski

Bogdan Krawalski hosts the Kids' Rave in Atlantis.

Broccoli

Lara aka Broccoli, is a Berlin-based Italian who loves fast-paced, ethereal melodies that transport you to other worlds. Her repertoire includes trance and nostalgic sounds as well as trippy-groovy beats and swinging gproggy melodies. Lara's style knows no boundaries.

Live Act & Performance

CANCELLED: Duo L'Oro feat. Milena Gürtler

For the Detect Classic Festival, the three women are developing an overall dramaturgy of prose, early music and contemporary music. They combine Renaissance sounds, contemporary drama and expressive songs to create a performative concert to wake you up.

Workshop

Carina Columna

In her workshops, Carina Columna explores together with the participants the interplay between inside and outside, the sayable, the unsayable and the contradictions between the lines.

Cat

Cat aka Kidcat, is a vinyl loving DJ. She is usually seen running around with her trusted records, ready to reveal her secret gems. At Detect 2024 she will play a b2b with Supersonico. Get ready for a bouncy, drummy, sexy session, within the spectrum of house - techno - trance.

Live Act

Christian Traute

Christian Traute will play an intermezzo.

Workshop

Contact Improvisation - let's support each other

with Shiva (she/they)

Workshop

ContrastPunkt

ANALOG: Camera Obscura. Photographing with a dark box - a ContrastPunkt workshop.

DJ Jetski

abc

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

Live Act

Detect Ensemble

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 an in-depth co-creation process.

Live Act

Die Wilde Jagd

With minimalist, dark intensity, Die Wilde Jagd spins a dense and atmospheric web of drama, romance, ecstasy and melancholy.

Live Act

Dobrawa Czocher

As a musician, Czocher loves to expand the sound spectrum of the cello and to oscillate between classical and contemporary music.

Live Act

Dora Donata Sammer

Dora Donata Sammer is one of the most versatile recorder players of her generation.

Dübl & Nase

Laut & Luise's full-time interns take curious journeys through spooky musical landscapes that will leave you in a delightfully dizzy state.

Performance

Eigenrauschen

With the question of how to deal with farewell and letting go, Eigenrauschen invites the audience on a journey of reflection about their own existence.

A man holding a reel of film in front of his face.

Live Act

Erland Cooper

"One of the most unique, consistently engaging composers of his generation" - CLASH

Esclé

Esclé researches traditional Folklore, Psychedelic Rock & Folk, Jazz, Hip Hop, Dub, Ambient, Wave and Techno from around the globe.

Live Act

Evi Filippou & Robert Lucaciu

The dynamic collaboration between the Greek vibraphonist and the German-Romanian double bass player has birthed an artistic partnership that defies the constraints of rigid genre categorizations. The essence of their work lies in the realm of boundless creativity.

A man with a guitar sits in front of a stone house.

Live Act

F.S.Blumm

F.S.Blumm produces, writes film music, gives concerts, paints pictures and develops live radio plays. In everything he does, he tries to stay true to himself. On stage, he speaks a direct, personal language and creates an intimate concert experience.

Fette Elke

Fette Elke is the second smallest dancefloor in MV and brings urban nightlife to the province. The best beats and the finest sound on the four-wheeled trampoline.

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Performance

Freemotion Performance Crew

The Freemotion Performance Crew is united by a common passion: movement, expression, improvisation and play.

Performance

Fullness

Maike Hautz aka Messer is a freelance performer, dancer and musician. Her artistic focus is on voice and singing on the one hand, and on movement research, interaction and communication between bodies on the other. Gregor Forbes is a pianist and composer. He is primarily active in the fields of improvised music, jazz and contemporary classical music.

GYRL

Producer duo GYRL have been wowing audiences in Europe's most renowned clubs and festivals with their dark and pitched-down techno sound since 2015.

Live Act

Gunilla & O/Y

Berlin based siblings Gunilla & O/Y team up to deliver a high energy improvised electronic live set spanning from minimal- and dub techno to breaks and progressive.

Performance

Hannah Mühlfeldner & Kaya Frank

With a penchant for quirky parodies and the absurd, Hannah Mühlfeldner aka PDH and Kaya Frank aka KY come together through multimedia art and experiment with performative and interactive installations. With "Are two pieces enough?", this year they are gluing the Detect together with a puzzle mix that can be purchased for a donation at the bars on the main floors.

Live Act

Heart Chor

Heart Chor sings and performs out of joy, curiosity and passion, radically spreading the message of LOVE.

Live Act

IDU#KS

A mixture of film and theater music in the contemporary sound spectrum forms a sound space in which musicians and listeners meet.

INTERNET.MP3

INTERNET.MP3 is the latest project from DJ and software engineer Juanpe Bolívar, whose kaleidoscopic and irreverent sets celebrate metamodernism in the digital post-club age.

Live Act

JakoJako

Primarily a live performer, JakoJako makes extensive use of modular synthesizers in her productions and on stage.

Jeanette Trèsbien

Vinyl DJ from Hamburg.

Judith van Waterkant

“If I die today, I’ll die happy.” It’s exactly this spirit that Judith van Waterkant tries to convey in her so-called Mindset-Sets, in a downbeat-comfortzone between 90-115 BPM on the dance-floors of the world or on the couch at home.

KYBALA SUN

Come with us into the fantastic world of musical delights. Dive deep, fly high, waste no time!

Live Act

Kaan Bulak

Kaan Bulak is a composer, pianist, sound artist. Influenced by his two hometowns Istanbul and Berlin, Bulak found his unique way of composing beyond geographical or cultural boundaries.

Kinama

In his mesmerizing sets, Kinama guides his listeners on a musical odyssey where natural elements fuse harmoniously with contemporary sounds.

Workshop & Performance

Klex & Pipifax

Among other things, long-time RA.M.M. - performer and founding member of schloss bröllin e.V. specialist for sustainability, magical children's programmes and artistic hands-on workshops.

Live Act

Kollektiv eigenklang

Kollektiv eigenklang was founded at the end of 2017 with the invention of the installation of the same name and the aim of organising interactive happenings where visitors can not only consume art and culture, but also participate in it.

Kotoe

Kotoe makes you want to move — think disco, feel acid, breathe tropicali.

Live Act

L Twills

L Twills creates a unique electro-acoustic avant-pop sound, combining electrifying rhythms, synth textures and expressive vocals.

woman in white body suit laying on the floor surrounded by very long black braided hair.

Live Act

La Chica

There is something sacred in La Chica’s voice. Her incantation frees us from gravity, her body undulates, carrying ours by mimicry. A dance of sounds, words, cries, idioms, fingers. From her keyboard, just like a shaman, she drives and leads our trance.

Lasse Lambretta

From sensual to carefree, tidy to cheeky, challenging to manageable, chaotic to organised and drag to rave - Lasse Lambretta's sets are a meditation on his queer identity and life itself.

Installation

Lieber Analog

In the analogue light installation "Fraßspuren", artist Tom Kretschmer (Lieber Analog) makes the wounds of the Anthropocene visible with two feeding images of bark beetles and humans.

Live Act

Liedstadt

The Liedstadt Festival brings people together with songs - also here at Detect.

Performance

Lussekärringen

Joséphine and Clara have been dancing for and with each other in various projects and contexts for ten years and for this project they approach the choreographic process as a dialogue in which their individual practices merge.

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Live Act

MAUGLI

MAUGLI mixes lively sounds and driving rhythms from all over the world. His cross-genre music combines sampling and recording to create a lively collage. His crisp arrangements convey an electronic yet organic feel. As a selector, he is known for his warm and soulful sound, his mix is as eclectic as it is ecstatic.

Performance & Live Act

MOMENT

MOMENT is a collective project collaborating nationwide since 2015, combining various venues and art forms like music theater and performance.

MOTHA

MOTHA is an attempt at fairly shared care work. It invites you to come to rest, make yourself comfortable and let yourself be carried away into inner worlds. She always strives to provide safety and security and to wrap herself around her audience like a warm blanket.

Performance

Majó

Majó - (her: preferably no pronouns / Marika Pyrszel) - born 1994 in Poznań, Poland, is an artist specializing in audiovisual installations and music performances.

Workshop

Make jewellery

Learn the basics of jewellery making.

Malagüera

MALAGÜERA (Hütte Collective) is a multidisciplinary artist from Santiago de Chile who lives in Berlin. She works in the fields of theater and music as an actress, singer and DJ and creates hybrid and diverse performances.

DJ & Performance

Manuelo von Beruf

Manuelo von Beruf experiments with vibrant forms of musical expression. The character of his sets is an alternation of romanticism and technophilia, Mediterranean sounds that have landed in the Gulf of Naples, sounds without a fixed abode.

Live Act

Maradiuli

Five interwoven voices that place traditional texts and songs in a new context to bathe in timeless sound.

Marco Morelle

Marco Morelle is very low key.

Reading

Marie Kublik

As part of the reading collective serious case of Deformation, Marie is curating the readings at this year's detect festival and will be reading from her poetry cycle on Saturday, which deals with classism, origin, changing climatic conditions and her own self-image as a poet.

Martha van Straaten

The sound of Martha van Straaten (Laut & Luise, Berlin) can be described as the patchwork of a thousand joyful days in the sun. With fond love forcolorful tunes from all over the world, she blends the musical treasures she discovers on her neverending journey.

Performance

Mawa Jusi

The Mawa Jusi collective merges movement, body, sound and space into performative dance and generative-interactive video art.

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Mira

Whether she was playing in a small underground club in East Germany in the 90s or in front of thousands of festival-goers at Burning Man - Mira is one of those artists of whom you can truly say that she does it for the love of music.

NICI PALM

Anyone who experiences NICI PALM behind the decks immediately senses that it‘s all about one thing – energetic and organic music.

Reading

Nadia Rassuli

Nadia Rassuli published her first book, Die dem Tod entgegensahen, with Re:sonar Verlag. Her first poetry collection mellifluous mess will be published by tîr-verlag in June 2024.

Live Act

Neuer Kammerchor Berlin

In its programmes, the New Chamber Choir Berlin regularly presents world premieres by young composers and creates innovative interdisciplinary choral projects, including electronic music, light installations and video art.

Live Act

OTK

OTKs fragmented and hypnotic sound creates images of space escapades, electric frogs, ruins & the destroyed world of enchantment. Utilizing analogue synthesizers, reeds and FX they craft complex and pattern-based improvised sets.

Performance

Paper's Garden

The performance explores how, by recognizing the pluriversity of our educational histories, internalized notions influence our choices and how pure inner creativity can connect to that of others.

A woman in an orange outfit sits on the floor of a rooftop.

Live Act

Perera Elsewhere

No matter where Perera has found herself musically, she has constructed a creative habitat and welcomed others to it. Elsewhere, but always rooted.

Performance

Perish Bordell

Micka Meleon will move around the festival site in a UMO (unidentified moving object), which will be a spaceship, instrument and invasive object all in one.

Phil Paruschke

In his divers dj sets, Phil Paruschke is chasing sweet spots of sound and dynamic ways of storytelling.

Workshop

Polli Morph

Polli Morph will give a sound painting workshop.

Live Act

Popp Drum Trio

The drum trio, led by Munich-based drummer and composer Simon Popp, plays its way through polyrhythmic structures with an incredible sense of timing and mood.

Live Act

Probably Nancy

The songs of Probably Nancy are inspired by the marvellous Berlin malaise with its shitty friends, murderers, donkey lovers, stinking 24-hour bars, addictions and potato salad.

PullenPenny

A bit of disco and a bit of trance and everything is a bit dirty. Guaranteed to get young and old fidgeting, even if you thought you didn't like techno, let alone psytrance.

A woman with brown eyes sits on the floor, looking into the camera.

Live Act

Radio Hito

Days and nights, living in the clarity of mind and voice: Radio Hito’s pensive compositions get stripped down to the bare elements while still retaining the solemn power of truth. The words of others gain meaning of their own through a contemplatively personal rendition whose simplicity manages to brim with endless poetic possibility.

Reading

Res Theo Sigusch

Res Theo Sigusch (dey/demm/deren), geboren 1993 in Jena, hat in Hildesheim Literarisches Schreiben und Lektorieren studiert. Deren fiktionale Texte beschäftigen sich mit (künstlerischen) Arbeitsweisen, Erfolg vs. Versagen, Geschlecht und Machtdynamiken in Beziehungen.

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Roe Deers

Roe's tireless DJ sets and music productions feature rolling arps, vintage analogue synths and arrangements that are fresh and inventive, proving that you don't need a formula to succeed internationally and land on the playlists of the biggest DJs.

Workshop

SHAKETHEPAINAWAY

Ada and Tania Sternberg are sisters and an artistic duo. Ada is a dancer, dance mediator and DJ, Tania is a visual artist and performer. In their work, the two combine various forms of artistic expression with an interest in socio-political issues and a queer-feminist perspective.

Live Act

Sabine Mariss

In her solo programme, the Göttingen-based singer, clarinettist and loop performer Sabine Mariss combines all the influences that have shaped her path in her own compositions and improvisations: In addition to jazz, these include Indian dhrupad singing, the music of Eastern European Jews, minimal music, as well as experimental vocalists such as Meredith Monk. Delicate, wild, surprising!

Workshop

Sarah Baum aka MCmissTREE

MCmissTREE is musician, live and freestyle artist, capoeirista, cultural manager, little sister and much more. Get ready to be part of a common feeling - vamos vadiar!

Live Act

Sea Change

Her live-sets turns her dreamy dance music into a shadowy techno-esque fever dream, complete with Sea Change's haunting vocals.

Shepherd

As a shepherd urges his sheep collectively onwards to a better place, this Shepherd gently guides his flock along a journey of his own making.

Live Act

Simon Höfele

Simon Höfele is a trumpet virtuoso who has worked globally with renowned orchestras and conductors. Besides his enthusiasm for chamber music with his musical partners Elisabeth Brauß or Frank Dupree, he has been the host of the WDR3 podcast KLASSIK CRUSH.

DJ & Live Act

Sinua

Sinua is exploring the limits of dance music, bringing a live violin prelude to a dj set based on layering dub and bass infused sounds with percussive techno drums.

Sirol

Sirol is originally from Slovenia and lives in Berlin. He likes to playfully mix all kinds of records, with a focus on techno, house, breakbeat, electro and acid. He loves to bring the heat to the dancefloor.

Smooth Operators

Sina and Anton, who perform for Detect as the Smooth Operators, share, among many other things, a love of good music. For the opening of the Detect Festival, they are bringing along a fine collection of tracks that promise a good mood and will get you grooving into the festival weekend.

Sonne, Mond & Mango

Inspired by a passionate love for a wide range of music and without committing to a specific genre, Sonne, Mond & Mango present colourful sets and create a deep and sensual atmosphere on the dance floor.

Supersonico

Supersonico is part of Hütte Kollektiv and Bass Global Project.

T-nka

T-nka is the hut newcomer you've been waiting for - ever since she kept announcing her debut over the last few years while she was busy organising backstage. You can expect a variety of tunes, tracks and songs from different genres, some hippie house and some happy hop, a clear selection of favourites.

Live Act

Teresa Emilia Raff

Harpist Teresa Emilia Raff sees her instrument as a seismograph for human emotions. In her personally curated programmes, she attaches particular importance to presenting works by female composers, showcasing the harp's infinite sound spectrum.

Four wind players in black suits standing on a white backdrop.

Live Act

Tetra Brass

Tetra Brass is characterised by creativity, endless curiosity and experimental openness. This open approach creates a diverse repertoire, ranging from original works from the late Romantic period and the 20th century to contemporary music written especially for the ensemble and premiered by it.

Performance

The Musical Zoo

A performance on the kids' floor.

Live Act

The New Solarism

Izabela Kalduńska released her first solo album in 2021 - ‘The New Solarism - Studies of Myself’. - it consists of six solo compositions, written and performed by the author with violin, looper, effects and her voice.

Performance

The Post

Interactive art installation.

Performance

The SDS Project

The sds project is a loose association of musicians and artists. artists. Founded by the musician Micka, the project brings together artists in order to develop a common communication through improvisation. At detect the circus performers will be Antonia Rödel (handstand) and Julia Berger (aerial rope).

Live Act & Performance

TÆ

The band collective TÆ attempts to deconstruct the boundary between concert and sound installation. Minimalist patterns, rhythmic illusions and asymmetrical forms coexist with atmospheric soundscapes and field records, often in a prepared concert location. An invitation to meditate about the nature of time and change.

Installation

Wishing well

Make a wish.

Workshop

Yoga with Verena

Verena is looking forward to seeing you on the mat!

b-seite

As a music lover with a fine antenna, without a fixed genre corset, b-seite accompanies the dancing shoes he meets on his journey through a cosmic portal, behind which they chug along together in psychedelic reminiscence, dusted with magic, on the soul train towards future disco - very nice!

Live Act

elen in wavs

this is elen in wavs personal journey of sound - be welcome.

Live Act

flieder

flieder is the new live act of your hearts. Their blend of modular sound design and deep basslines, paired with smooth beats, always keeps the drive going.

Performance

ili Os

Ili Os (no pronouns) is a genre-fluid musician and sonic ecologist based in Berlin. Transcending Greek/Albanian roots, Ili uses instruments, voice, field recordings, community building, and radio to explore and express.

Performance

in_verse_city

Zacharias Faßhauer (electronics, composition) and Sophia Hegewald (oboe) have created a walk-through labyrinth, which is transformed into a living city backdrop through the interplay of audience, music and light.

Live Act

jnkammer

The chamber music emissaries of the junge norddeutsche philharmonie will caress your ears with intermezzi and a concert.

mattmosphere

Matti has been making waves for years with various sets in numerous clubs and festivals around the world, taking music lovers on gentle, warm and mystical journeys.

māz

māz plays favourite records with a focus on vocals.

An electronic musician and a trumpeter standing on a foggy stage.

Live Act

noufān

With kraut, trumpets and noise poetry, noufān create their own post-punk.

pokka

Welcome to pokka's sound universe. Her sets range from sultry depths of 80 bpm to the pulsating highs of 140 bpm, from acid to dance to downbeat. Whether it gets dirty or deep, you will find yourself on the dance floor.

samtbody

samtbody - singing as lippstück since the 90s - one half of the duo "air cushion finish" with jayrope since 2008 - on the road as dj samtbody at countless events and festivals

schmauli

schmauli is one of the disguises I use when I play music at events. i love travelling through genres and discovering or creating connections. I love music that has an energetic vibe without taking it too seriously. i usually play with and for friends. it's important to me that my audience feels comfortable.

Reading

serious case of deformation & paula van well

serious case of deformation is a collective that performs prose and poetry on reading stages and invites authors to do so.

tufo

tufo, co-founder of BASS* GLOBAL*, is driving bass music around the planet and creating safe spaces for global sounds in the Berlin scene.

Consent

AFAR

Alina Sauernheimer

Anja & John

Anne Regler

Are Women People?

Armonía Táctil

Arutani

Athenaïs

B.Clarke

Badania

Bison Rouge

Bobby Rausch

Bogdan Krawalski

Broccoli

CANCELLED: Duo L'Oro feat. Milena Gürtler

Carina Columna

Cat

Christian Traute

Contact Improvisation - let's support each other

ContrastPunkt

DJ Jetski

Detect Ensemble

Die Wilde Jagd

Dobrawa Czocher

Dora Donata Sammer

Dübl & Nase

Eigenrauschen

Erland Cooper

Esclé

Evi Filippou & Robert Lucaciu

F.S.Blumm

Fette Elke

Freemotion Performance Crew

Fullness

GYRL

Gunilla & O/Y

Hannah Mühlfeldner & Kaya Frank

Heart Chor

IDU#KS

INTERNET.MP3

JakoJako

Jeanette Trèsbien

Judith van Waterkant

KYBALA SUN

Kaan Bulak

Kinama

Klex & Pipifax

Kollektiv eigenklang

Kotoe

L Twills

La Chica

Lasse Lambretta

Lieber Analog

Liedstadt

Lussekärringen

MAUGLI

MOMENT

MOTHA

Majó

Make jewellery

Malagüera

Manuelo von Beruf

Maradiuli

Marco Morelle

Marie Kublik

Martha van Straaten

Mawa Jusi

Mira

NICI PALM

Nadia Rassuli

Neuer Kammerchor Berlin

OTK

Paper's Garden

Perera Elsewhere

Perish Bordell

Phil Paruschke

Polli Morph

Popp Drum Trio

Probably Nancy