Rewire

"A truly rich blend of cutting-edge sounds, with an impressive number of special commissions" Rewire is an annual international festival for adventurous music.

Across four days from 3 - 6 April 2025, Rewire will return to The Hague with its fourteenth festival edition, bringing together a wide range of musical and interdisciplinary performances, specially commissioned works, club nights, installations, talks, screenings, and more.

21/05/2026

While some sing of what washes into the shore of contemporary life, the music of French composer and vocalist Malibu is of the cusping waves over its horizon and of what soaking truths swim beneath them, out of grasp yet slowly careening into view. ⁠
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Like a lighthouse's beam across stormy seas, Malibu's performance at Grote Kerk during Rewire 2026 shone a reassuring beacon out towards the audience. At the festival's 15th anniversary, Malibu carried her meditative music to shore in a stunning performance of ambient pop whose echoes swayed and bounced against the magnificent walls of the church.⁠
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Video by Niels van der Lans

19/05/2026

🎧 For the fourth consecutive year, Rotterdam’s cherished community station Radio WORM returned to Rewire festival, once again broadcasting live from the heart of The Hague at The Grey Space in the Middle.⁠
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Continuing its focus on Rewire’s interdisciplinary approach to sound, music, performance, and critical dialogue, Radio WORM captured a wide range of talks, symposia, and specially curated conversations with artists and participants from across the festival’s context and music programmes. Revisit the discussions, reflections, and ideas that shaped Rewire 2026. Tune in via: rewirefestival.nl/news/listen-radio-worm-x-rewire-2026

16/05/2026

A swarming bundle of chaos and fun surrounds ∈Y∋, the visionary founder of legendary avant-noise groups Boredoms, Hanatarash, and Puzzle Punks. On Friday evening at Rewire 2026, visitors filled into Theater aan het Spui to witness and listen to an unparalleled barrage of sound and visuals, thanks to ∈Y∋ + C.O.L.O, from Osaka’s Cosmic Lab. This maximalist audiovisual performance combined psychedelic noise and giddy visualisations into a hypnotic, mischievous collage.⁠
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Photos by Parcifal Werkman

12/05/2026

One of Rewire 2026's most anticipated performances took place on Saturday at the festival, when james K took to the stage of PAARD I before a full audience of giddy onlookers. ⁠
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She led Rewire's visitors into her intimate and elastic realm of ethereal pop and undulating trip-hop, performing songs from her prolific back catalogue, including her third solo album 'Friend.' A serial experimenter in dream pop and beyond, Krasner's downtempo music brought to the festival a sense of connection among the digital fray of contemporary times. james K's songs circumnavigate the hyper-acceleration of the modern moment, offering instead a glitchy and meditative 56k-modem pace. ⁠
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Our photographers were there to catch her performance.⁠
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Photos by Wouter Vellekoop and Alicia Karsonopoero

30/04/2026

On the occasion of Rewire’s 15th festival edition, Page Not Found and Rewire announced a new book Further Listening: On Adventurous Music and Sound – the publication is now available via: rewirefestival.nl/news/further-listening-publication-is-now-on-sale

Further Listening brings together myriad artistic voices that have and continue to shape adventurous music and sound, and holds conversations with artists, researchers, writers, and organisers, poetic texts, critical essays, archival fragments, text messages, and personal reflections. Organised around four “filters,” the contributions speak about infrastructures for adventurous music (Staging Sound); evolving music technologies, instruments, and forms of environmental listening (Instrumental Ecologies); exchanges across geographies and generations (Times and Territories); and speculative, critical, and forward-thinking listening practices (Further Listening).
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With contributions from Aaron Gonsher, Adam Harper, Aike Jansen, Alvin Curran, Amirtha Kidambi, Andreas Kühne, Ania Drożdż, Aniketh Khutia, Anna Møller, Annea Lockwood, Ash Kilmartin, Brandon LaBelle, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Callum McLean, Cis De Gendt, Clara De Asís, Clarissa Connelly, Cristina Cochior, Farzaneh Nouri, Federica Notari, Giada Dalla Bontà, Golnoosh Heshmati, Heloisa Amaral, Jeff Sermon, JJJJJerome Ellis, Joeri Woudstra, Julie Landers, Jung Hoon Ra, Kris Cooper, Laura Ortman, Laura Snapes, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Leslee Smucker, Liliane Chlela, Łukasz Moroz, María Mazzanti, Mark Peter Wright, Maya Al Khaldi, Mayssa Jallad, meLê yamomo, Meredith Monk, Momtaza Mehri, Nyokabi Kariūki, pantea, Philipp Rhensius, Polina Medvedeva, Rachael Rakes, Radna Rumping, Richard Foster, Robin van der Heijden, Salomé Voegelin, Samuel Hertz, Sarouna, Sian O'Gorman, Sigrid Angelsen, Xenia Benivolski, Yağmur (Yago) Sağlam, Yamen Mekdad, Yannis Kyriakides, Zahra Malkani, Zoe Besuyen⁠

Photos by The Book Photographer

26/04/2026

Save the date for Rewire 2027, when the festival for adventurous music returns to The Hague between 8 and 11 April for its 16th edition.⁠
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As Early Bird Passes for Rewire 2027 have sold out, Regular 3 Day and 4 Day Passes are now available via the 🔗 in bio.

24/04/2026

Rewire 2026 is now truly in the books, both figuratively and literally, as the last few reviews for the festival's 15th anniversary edition are coming in. Today we publish our ‘Rewire 2026 in reports’ article, which gathers quotes and impressions from earlier in April when Rewire festival again transformed The Hague into a place for attentive listening, experimental encounters, and inspiring sounds. Ranging from different national and international publications, we are grateful to share with you these writers’ own perspectives on Rewire 2026. ⁠
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Please note: as reviews and articles are released, they will be added on our website. As a preview of our ‘Rewire 2026 in reports’ article, find a small handful of quotes below:⁠
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“Come to Rewire, and you may just leave feeling that music is still capable of surprise, and that the world, through it, can feel larger, stranger and newly possible.” – Metal Magazine
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“The Hague festival strikes the perfect balance between urgent and highbrow” – 3voor12⁠
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“This year, Rewire perhaps reached its peak in terms of its artistic programme. Not only because of the sheer number of performances, but also because of their quality.” – Zero.eu⁠
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“There is an implicit awareness [at Rewire] on how sound and music are good for far more than just being bread and circuses to amuse the masses: it can be an agent of true transformation.” – Beats Per Minute
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“Rewire’s curators are always spot on when it comes to the latest developments in the experimental music scene, and after attending six editions, I can’t even say which one I thought was the best. 2026 is an⁠
excellent contender.” – Gonzo(circus⁠)
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Read the full ‘Rewire 2026 in reports’ article via: rewirefestival.nl/news/rewire-2026-in-reports
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Photos by Pieter Kers, Wouter Vellekoop, Rogier Boogaard, Alex Heuvink, and Jan Rijk

23/04/2026

The responsibility of being Rewire 2026's final act fell upon Civilistjävel! & Mayssa Jallad, who presented a world premiere collaborative performance at one of the festival's most beloved venues, Lutherse Kerk.

Their moving performance took Civilistjävel!'s rework of Jallad's 'Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels' as its starting point, using song to guide the audience into a war-torn visage of Beirut's skyscrapers. She addressed the absurdity and weight of performing in The Hague – a city that houses international courts and mechanisms of justice – while war continued.⁠
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Matt Reed in Metal Magazine recalls the performance: "Jallad offered a pointed reminder of how fortunate those in attendance, and in the warless West more broadly, are. Recalling a question she had asked herself while walking The Hague’s quaint streets earlier that day, “how do we all live under the same sun?,” she spoke of missiles raining on Lebanon and the devastating genocide in Palestine, and of her hope that one day there might be justice . . ."⁠

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20/04/2026

Although it can be difficult to give words to a weekend full of experiences like Rewire 2026, there were luckily a number of visiting press, from around the Netherlands and beyond, to help in that regard. Ahead of our forthcoming ‘Rewire 2026 in reports’ article, find a small handful of quotes below:⁠
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"Rewire manages something rare: it restores the possibility of being surprised and experience something genuinely, fundamentally new." – Glamcult⁠
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“Fifteen years in, and Rewire still hasn't learned how to be comfortable. That's the highest compliment you can give it.” – Coeval Magazine⁠
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“Rewire is adept at staging wildly different iterations of sound.” – The Quietus⁠
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“You leave [Rewire] dosed with just enough inspiration to carry you through until the next year. Its scale should be unwieldy; yet somehow it isn’t. Fifteen editions in, there is nothing else quite like it.” – Crack Magazine⁠
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“The programme for the fifteenth edition of Rewire in The Hague was, once again, of an exceptionally high standard. It was rarely easy to take in, but all the more memorable for it.” – Festileaks⁠
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In the coming weeks, we’ll be sharing pictures, videos, and memories from this year's 15th anniversary edition of the festival.⁠
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Photos by Camille Blake, Laura van der Spek, Alicia Karsonopoero, and Parcifal Werkman

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