The collective sees itself as an organization that aims to wire and rewire the abilities, interests, ideas and approaches of its members, followers and sympathisers to all sorts of constellations in order to deliver innovative output in the fields of art, technology, media and society.
The beginning of all and still the heart of the collective is the band Drahthaus, in which four musicians perform live electronic music with around 20 acoustic and digital instruments, everyday objects and effect devices. Both in music and in other products of the collective, the will to overcome boundaries and to create new tangible spaces is crucial. Technology is metaphorically the extension of the human arm, through which, among other things, they are able to penetrate into these new spaces.

There were and still are many approaches to locate electronic music production in public space. The Drahthaus Kollektiv wants to bring a new, radical, strictly participative approach into play: to thematize the process of the emergence of music. Usually this exact theme is left out, then a "finished" substrate is presented on stage, which is ready for (mostly purely hedonistic) consumption.
The much more substantial and exciting process of applied creativity usually only takes place behind closed doors in studios, workspaces and rehearsal rooms. Drahthaus want them to be open. Admittedly, this means that we are also - deliberately and intentionally - leaving the field of pure music production.
Drahthaus as an open, in its theoretical basis very well thought-out, indeed almost rhizomic* collective of the most diverse experts (not just in the field of music), wants to dedicate its own festival to the processuality: processes of everyday life, processes of social development, processes and value chains, who are behind products, creative processes ... (*i.e. following the theories of the philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, who are highly esteemed in the field of art and culture)
Too theory-heavy? No, if one brings into play factors such as desire, curiosity, expertise and artistic networking. And if one misses the anarchic space of art with systematic analytical questions.