Scottish composer and musician Drew McDowall has been a pioneering mainstay of experimental music for decades. A former member of two truly legendary groups – Psychic TV in the 1980s and Coil from the 1990s onwards – he began releasing solo records with Dais Records just over a decade ago. As a solo musician, he delves into the hallucinatory, hypnagogic spaces between intimate reality and the celestially infinite. He melds intricate modular soundscapes with cut-up samples while deconstructing electro-acoustic sounds into a tapestry of whirring, shuddering elegance. An opus of tumultuous timbres falling in and out of harmony and dissonance, angelic yet devilish, soothing yet confronting, A Thread, Silvered and Trembling (2024) is McDowall's fifth and latest studio album. At Rewire 2026, McDowall presents the music of this album as a special live A/V show with filmmaker Pedro Maia – whose cross-disciplinary and multi-format work weaves classical techniques with contemporary innovations to envision unfathomable spectacles fit for McDowall's sublime, astral music.