The Rewire 2026 line-up continues to take shape. Listen to these recent releases from artists that have been added to the programme, offering a gateway into the sounds one can expect at the festival when it returns to The Hague in April.
Scottish composer and musician Drew McDowall has been a pioneering mainstay of experimental music for decades. His latest collaborative work with Kali Malone, Magnetism (2026), came to fruition in a day performing and working together. On Magnetism, Malone’s melodies take form through McDowall’s distinctive sound design, creating a shared musical language. Built around repetition and resonance, the album carries a sense of motion that lingers beyond its closing moments. At Rewire 2026, McDowall will be performing in 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.
As a duo, Stemeseder and Lillinger wield a purely chaotic form of composition which draws from disparate and broad elements such as sample culture, serialism, and folk music. Their latest release, Algol (2026), is a result of a collaboration between Christian Lillinger, Elias Stemeseder, and Camilo Ángeles, which came to fruition during recording sessions conducted in 2024 between Mexico City and Guadalajara. It operates as a fertile ground where composition, improvisation, and electroacoustic experimentation can interlink and flourish.
The ritualistic music of filmmaker-turned-sonic-experimentor Susu Laroche brings listeners into a ceremonial procession of droning ecstasy and percussion. War Against The Lie (2025) is Laroche’s first solo album. Long awaited, this work imagines a para-fictional law from ancient Zoroastrian Persia that revolves around the pursuit of truth. At Rewire 2026, Laroche presents music from her newest album War Against The Lie with accompanying visuals created by her.
A baroque and broken string sequence introduces Elischa Heller's new album Spellwork (2026). This peculiar and hypnotic introduction sets the stage for an album of unpredictable sounds and wide-ranging emotionality. Wrapped in AutoTune and creaky textures, futuristic yet decorative, Heller's music brings rapid beats, forlorn drones, and poppy melodies together into a ceremonial gathering of sonic magicks. It is the perfect soundtrack for a tumultuous world in flux; seek brief respite from these times when Heller brings his strange and symphonious bouquet of songs to Rewire 2026.
A seasoned composer, producer, DJ, and musician, Jennifer Walton’s debut album Daughters (2025) was inspired by the strange liminality of touring motel-life during her 2018 US tour, the scenes of wealth disparity she saw, and, most of all, by the life-altering news that her father had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Taking the guitar as her instrument of choice, she playfully and artfully disintegrates it into a blurry, woozy, maximal collage of digital sounds. Her wistful and emotive form of hyper pop is a kinetic puzzle of jovial maximalism that's warmly distorted and crunchy with compression.
Mark Fell is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, and theorist whose electronic music and sound art explores the limits of structure, rhythm, and perception; Pat Thomas is a revered improvisational pianist in the contemporary free jazz scene. Reality Is Not A Theory (2025), is the first collaboration between them, and although they both emerged from different backgrounds, together the duo interweave the timeless timbres of the piano with an unfurling chaotic assemblage of electric sounds, which yet still sound inextricably woven together. Such magic is beautifully captured in this release.
The California-based musician and artist, Joshua Chuquimia Crampton, a member of the Great Pakajaqi Nation of Aymara People, has been steadily building a reputation as one of the most exciting experimental guitarists playing today. His new album Anata (2026) released by Puro Fantasía, aims to honor the Andean ceremony, Pachamama (Mother Earth), and the principle of reciprocity between humans and nature (Ayni). The album promises to explore these Andean ceremonial rituals through Chuquimia Crampton’s experimental approach and sonic lens. At Rewire 2026, Chuquimia Crampton will perform alongside his sibling Chuquimamani-Condori, presenting the duo's much-lauded project Los Thuthanaka.
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. 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.
Drew McDowall, Stemeseder Llillinger, Susu Laroche, Elischa Heller, Jennifer Walton, Mark Fell & Pat Thomas, Joshua Chuquimia Crampton, and Suzan Peeters will be performing at Rewire 2026. Book tickets via rewirefestival.nl/tickets