Suzan Peeters is a Brussels-based accordionist, composer, and improviser who uses the accordion in ways previously unimagined – taking its gestural and pneumonic, breathy characteristics and infusing this age-old folk instrument with new cybernetic, noisy potential. In her search for new timbres and sonic textures within the instrument, she pushes its acoustic spectrum to its limits in a careful yet energetic interplay between her body and the body of the accordion. Her latest album, Cassotto (2025), on the Belgian label blickwinkel, is a gleaming example of this: it contains droning abstraction, minimalistic noise, and motorik staccato stabs which are nearly indiscernible as accordion play, as well as warm compositional moments which gleam with cinematic charge and character. While recordings start to tell the story, it's in Peeters's live performances where the true imagination and creativity of her work comes into full focus – witness the ways she fuses tradition and newness at Rewire 2026.

The presentation of this work was made possible thanks to the support of Flemish Arts Centre de Brakke Grond, STUK, and VierNulVier.