The nowHERE Festival Guide

A full circle moment for us! After several years, we’re returning to Berlin with the nowHERE Festival.

Want to come along to the festival at the Konzerthaus on one or more evenings between 13 and 21 November? Our festival guide will help you find your way around.

Enjoy exploring!

Fri 13 Nov · A Concert Journey Through Three Halls

In the pre-concert workshop, you can learn about 'Deep Listening' using the method developed by composer and musicologist Pauline Oliveros. Following music by Thomas Tallis and Ralph Vaughan Williams, 88 members of the Konzerthaus Orchestra will mingle with the audience in the Great Hall for the spectacular work 'Terretektorh'.

Further stops on the walking concert invite you to dream away with Mozart and Eleanor Alberga, before the Konzerthaus percussionists bring you back to the here and now with Steve Reich.

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Sat 14 Nov · Konzerthaus X İÇ İÇE

On Saturday, the Berlin Festival for New Anatolian Music invites you to the Konzerthaus. The line-up includes MADANii and the Konzerthaus Orchestra, Aladin & Neam (who also appeared at Detect 2026) and JAZZMIN. There will be a talk with Zühal Bilir-Meier, Ebow and festival director Melissa Kolukisagil, and of course a number of DJs.

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Tue 17 Nov · Berlin Tracks: Kunal Lahiry & Freddie Ballentine

Pianist and BBC New Generation Artist Kunal Lahiry, alongside tenor and Grammy Award winner Freddie Ballentine, are joining forces for the second time with Berlin’s vibrant ballroom community to break away from the traditional concert format and create a polyphonic space for queerness, remembrance and self-assertion.

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Thu 19 Nov · Canto Diáspora // La Chica & El Duende Orchestra

Thursday is all about Latin American music: the women’s vocal ensemble Canto Diáspora will perform songs from various oral traditions and invite the audience to become part of the ensemble.

On the same evening, we are delighted to welcome La Chica back as part of a Detect event. This time, she will be performing with El Duende and a ten-piece ensemble.

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Fri 20 Nov · Detect Ensemble & Acid Pauli // OY

Following performances at the Between Mountains and Detect Classic festival, the Detect Ensemble and Acid Pauli are set to come together for the third time at the Konzerthaus. DJ and producer Acid Pauli processes the ensemble’s instrumental sounds live through his modular system. Together, they explore the intersections between acoustic and electronic music through improvisation and composition.

In the second half of the concert evening, O/Y will present a contemporary synthesis of minimal, dub, electronica, ambient and downtempo.

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Sat 21 Nov · Lamento for Latency // Konzerthaus Orchestra // Circle of Live // sub_bar

In true Detect style, an intense and spectacular finale to the festival awaits you on Saturday.

Lena Appel and Sophia Obermeyer will present the performance 'Lamento for Latency'. Developed as part of the festival and dedicated to the festival’s theme of 'Body', this dance performance revolves around the hesitation between impulse and movement, touch and echo. Designed as a 'relaxed performance', it welcomes a variety of needs, ways of perceiving and forms of participation.

The evening concludes with a double concert featuring the Konzerthaus Orchestra and Sebastian Mullaert’s Circle of Live.

The orchestra will perform Stravinsky’s 'Sacre'. This work heralded the dawn of the age of new music, the avant-garde, and an entirely new sound culture. The artistic interpretation of humanity’s ancient sacrificial rituals is followed in the second part by electronic improvisation: For each concert, musician Sebastian Mullaerts invites other musicians to join him. Dorisburg is already known as a Circle of Live collaborator. Furthermore, Azu Tiwaline will be making her debut as part of Circle of Live this evening.

We also recommend the evening’s side programme to all visitors: sub_bar features sounds that are not intended for the ear, but are felt throughout the body. The performance 'Blink Time' by Atelier Francesco begins with the artist’s heartbeat and then moves, following the resonance pattern of the sun, through a wide variety of vibrational forms and rhythmic, repetitive silences.

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And that’s not all! The festival also features a concert by Ibrahim Maalouf & Ensemble – which is already sold out – as well as musical theatre for children and young people.

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We’re looking forward to seeing you all and to this action-packed week in Berlin!

The nowHERE Festival is a collaboration between Detect Sounds, the Konzerthaus Berlin and IÇ IÇE, the festival for new Anatolian music.
written by · jasmin falk

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