Composer and audiovisual artist Zeno van den Broek presents his new work Ways of [ ] at Rewire 2026. For this unique audiovisual performance, van den Broek brings together members of two world-renowned percussions groups – Les Percussions de Strasbourg, and HIIIT, formerly Slagwerk Den Haag – to collaborate and interact with digital entities in an interweaving of technology and humanity. For the work, intelligences were developed that can sense and play with their accompanying percussionists, responding to one another as human performers might, and adapting and leading each other into strange new cybernetic rhythms. Drawing from increasingly urgent questions around how humans might relate to other forms of intelligence, what van den Broek offers in response is a vision of autonomous machines whose algorithms have been fed with rhythmic data from their ancestors: steam engines, looms, and other industrial machines – offering them a means of history- and sense-making beyond the logics of corporate machine-learning. Ways of [ ] explores various forms of intelligence, logic, and musical structures, making space for both its percussionists and digital entities to act individually and collectively in this special performance.

Performing for Les Percussions de Strasbourg are Hyoungkwon Gil, François Papirer, and Yi-Ping Yang; and for HIIIT are Jonathan Bonny, Ryoko Imai, and Kalina Vladovska.