With each edition of Rewire, we strive to locate music’s place within wider social and cultural conversations. This year, we anchor our exploration around three key themes: Sense of Self, Network Music and Electronic Music Innovation In Historical Context.
With Electronic Music Innovation In Historical Context we fold linear time to bring technological innovations throughout the history of sound and music into the present day. Operating as a starting point for new investigations, we review the role of context and examine processes of restoring and reinstating the silenced and forgotten.
This theme rifts off a continuous wave of interrogative and critical perspectives into the history of music. Many of which operate as a mean to reveal history’s fluidity and multiplicity, and with that, our ability to challenge and reconstruct not only these stories but also the present state of play.
Explore the complete Electronic Music Innovation in Historical Context programme below.
The Rewire 2018 discourse programme is free. Festival and Day passes for the rest of the programmeare available atTickets.
Friday 7 April – Korzo
Based on film material preserved by EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam and Le Corbusier’s original script, architect Jan de Heer and composer Kees Tazelaar recreate Le poème électronique as an immersive audiovisual experience. Following the performance, Kees Tazelaar and Jan de Heer will discuss the original’s pioneering compositional and architectural achievements.
Sunday, 8 April – Korzo
An original pioneer of musique concrète, Beatriz Ferreyra explores an intuitive method of free electroacoustic composition that embraces a range of tape cutting techniques as well as acoustic instrumentation and electronic technologies. Presented as part of our Musical Material, our recurring series of inspiring encounters with West Den Haag, Beatriz Ferreyra retraces her career, experiences and musical practice.
Sunday, 8 April – Korzo
Ahead of its Sunday premiere, New York-based DJ, producer and electronic artist Antenes will discuss her new performance, Telegraph Music. Commissioned by Rewire and The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision’s RE:VIVE initiative (in co-production with COMM Museum), Telegraph Music is a unique live performance that explores the intertwined histories of electronic music and telecommunications using a one-of-a-kind repurposed switchboard modular setup and modified telegraph key system.
Sunday, 8 April – Korzo
Drawing on synthesiser reconstruction projects encountered while researching the electronic music studio and synthesiser company EMS London Ltd, researcher and writer Frances Morgan reflects on these approaches as a means of generating new methods of critical writing and helping us to engage with the multiple temporalities at work in electronic music histories.
Sunday, 8 April – Korzo
In this panel, New Emergences – an initiative to openly discuss issues regarding gender equality in electronic music and sound art – explore the medium of radio in representing the female voice, the female experience and the “herstory”.
Sunday, 8 April – Korzo
Known for her inventive soundscapes and eclectic DJ sets, Antenes also operates a studio-turned-laboratory of self-made sequencers and modular synthesisers built from vintage telephone equipment. At Rewire 2018, she presents the world premiere of Telegraph Music, a Rewire and RE:VIVE commission (in co-production with COMM Museum) that explores the intertwined histories of electronic music and telecommunications by performing with a one-of-a-kind repurposed switchboard modular setup.
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Sunday, 8 April – Korzo
Argentinian composer Beatriz Ferreyra has stood at the vanguard of electroacoustic experimentation since the 1960s. An influential member of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), her own works – anthologized by Editions Mego in 2015 – explore an intuitive method of free electroacoustic composition that embraces a range of tape cutting techniques as well as acoustic instrumentation and electronic technologies, ushering Pierre Schaeffer’s utopian musique concrète into the future.
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