With just six weeks to go until Rewire 2019, we are now completing the festival’s music programme with the addition of 25 new artists and projects.
The ninth edition of Rewire festival takes place in The Hague from 29 to 31 March. Having previously announced Nicolás Jaar, Low, Jlin & Company Wayne McGregor, Tim Hecker & Konoyo Ensemble and Tanya Tagaq, among many others, we are now completing the music programme with the addition of 25 new artists and projects, including performances by Actress + Young Paint (live AV/AI), Julia Holter Duo, Angel Bat Dawid, Jessica Pratt, Sega Bodegaas well as a prelude concert in collaboration with the Royal Conservatoire and Konrad Boehmer Foundation on Thursday, 28 March.
In addition to the aforementioned additions, we have also confirmed performances by:
Tirzah, Angel-Ho, CTM, Sote, Clara! y Maoupa, Foodman, Violet, Jesse Osborne-Lanthier, upsammy, Niels Broos & Jamie Peet, Anat Spiegel, Zeno van den Broek, Red Brut, Spinifex, Dianne Verdonk, Nosedrip, Nic Collins & Daniel Teruggi, Nic Collins & Gabriel Paiuk, Jasmín, and Spekki Webu.
In the coming weeks, we will be adding an expansive discourse programme – featuring a symposium, artist talks, workshops, and screenings – as well as revealing the Rewire 2019 timetable. Festival Passes, Day Passes and Club Tickets can be purchased at Tickets.
Rapid changes in technology have resulted in landmark developments on today’s creative landscape. Extending our exploration of these developments as well as speculative ideas of what could come next,Preeminent British electronic musician and producerActress will present the Dutch premiere of ‘Actress & Young Paint’, a new collaborative project in which he explores the creative and social potentials of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Having spent the better part of 2018 training and programming the AI-based character ‘Young Paint’ on his own sonic palette of UK garage, bass-heavy sounds and London’s rave heritage, Actress will take the stage alongside a life-size projection of Young Paint, with the AI character paralleling Actress’s performance in a unique, hybrid human-AI live collaboration.
London-based DJ and producer Sega Bodega has built a reputation as being one of the UK’s most innovative and precocious creative minds. At Rewire 2019, he presents the latest iteration of ‘self*care’. Originally released as a digital EP before evolving into multidisciplinary video project, ‘self*care’ now takes the form of an ambitious new performance built around live vocals, club-centric R&B, andstage design by Shaun Murphy – responsible for Lanark Artefax’s incredible live presence at last year’s festival.
A boundless experimentalist, Julia Holter’s recorded output blurs the lines between indie, traditional pop, modern composition and electronic music. Performing as Julia Holter Duo, the LA-based composer and multi-instrumentalist will be joined by Tashi Wada for a one-off performance that translates her music into an intimate live setting for piano, electronics and vocals. Fellow LA musician Jessica Pratt will present her new album ‘Quiet Signs’. Released to widespread acclaim this February, ‘Quiet Signs’ channels Pratt’s characteristic voice, subtle guitar-technique and minimalistic approach to songwriting into a thoughtful distillation of lush chamber pop and mysterious psych-folk.
A celebrated composer, clarinetist and singer, has rapidly emerged as an emblem of the Chicago’s revered jazz and improv scenes. Making her European premiere with the support of a 6-piece ensemble, Dawid will present her newly-released debut album, ‘The Oracle’, a monumental spiritual jazz odyssey that charts Dawid’s own journey with jazz and improvised music, and serves as a vibrant document of black life as it stands today.
Hailing from the same stomping grounds as CURL-members Mica Levi, Coby Sey and Brother May, London-based soul singer and songwriter Tirzah heads to Rewire 2019 in support of her critically-acclaimed debut album ‘Devotion’, One of the most compelling releases of 2018, ‘Devotion’ reveals a deeply personal brand of British RnB anchored in Mica Levi’s experimental sonics and softened by Tirzah’s own melancholic words. That soft and soulful mix gets a playful twist in the hands of CTM. The alias of Danish cellist, singer and composer Cæcilie Trier, CTM will conjure the gentle fusion of classical composition, modern folk and experimental pop of her recent Posh Isolation album Red Dragon into a mesmerizing live performance.
Co-founder of the NON-collective, Angel-Ho is a genre-bending South African performance artist, producer, and songwriter who defies the boundaries of convention. Snapped up by Hyperdub for her ‘debut proper’, the new album sees Cape Town-based artist rap and sing to a potent mix of Lady Gaga, Missy Elliot and Björk-inspired pop and explores narratives of trans identity. At Rewire 2019, Angel-Ho will be joined by two dancers for a brand new live audiovisual performance.
Joining a Saturday Club Night that already features the likes of Nicolás Jaar (live/dj hybrid), Lauren Halo (dj), Giant Swan and vtgnike, Portuguese DJ and producer Violet – a mainstay of the Lisbon’s vibrant nightlife scene – will unleash her startling blend of techno with breaks and and acid basslines, while Iranian electronic musician and SET Festival co-founder Sote introduces us to the hardcore sounds of Tehran. On Friday, the Brussels-based duo of Clara! y Maoupa channel their twisted EBM-reggaeton into an electrifying live performance, while Stroom founder Nosedrip offers a glimpse of his illustrious library of oddities and a trio of local talents in upsammy, Jasmín, and Spekki Webu usher us deep into the night.
Part of Japan’s flourishing juke scene, Foodman harnesses bright, plastic-sounding MIDI instruments and extreme minimalism into a multicoloured sound palette of footwork, classic ambient and Japanese traditional music, Where Foodman’s worlds are full of whimsical melody, Montréal-based artist and musician Jesse Osborne-Lanthier is out to shock, appall and delight in equal measure. Providing stark contrasts at every turn, his electronic compositions morph rapidly from uncanny-valley EDM to sweeping expanses of choral synths.
Dutch composer and visual artist Zeno van den Broek will present the world premiere of his new album and audiovisual work ‘Breach’ on the Saturday of Rewire 2019. A deep dive into chaotic systems, he reflects on recent social upheaval around the world by exploring the build-up and release of tension and energy through a new form of pitch-black metal electronics. The night before, Red Brut, the alias of Rotterdam-based artist and musician Marijn Verbiesen, channels the DIY experimentalism of her recent self-titled debut into a spellbinding solo performance, replete with fuzzy tape loops, lo-fi ambiance,and melancholic melodies.
Guided by her mesmerizing vocals, Dutch-Israeli composer and performer Anat Spiegel charts the endless expressions of the human voice through new music, experimental opera, and song. At Rewire 2019, she will present ‘Temporary Palaces’, a new work for voice, harmonium, and electronics that is based on the iconic textual artworks of Robert Montgomery. Fellow locals Spinifex unveil SOUFIFEX, a new project inspired by Sufi traditions of Kurdish-Iranian and Pakistani Qawali heritage that sees the six-piece ensemble delve into a magical world of repetitive patterns.
Niels Broos & Jamie Peet are two of Holland’s most influential young musicians. On Rewire Friday, the duo takes you on a journey through the trippy, Brainfeeder-like melodies, gritty minimalist overtures and percussive studies of their recent self-titled debut, while Dutch performer, composer,and instrument builder, Dianne Verdonk showcases her unique electroacoustic inventions on Sunday.
On the eve of this year’s festival, Rewire, the Konrad Boehmer Foundation and the Royal Conservatoire present a special prelude concert at the conservatory’s Arnold Schönbergzaal on 28 March 2019. An extension of the foundation’s Visiting Professorship, the prelude sees French-Argentinian composer Daniel Teruggi and American electronic music composer Nic Collins perform works of classical and contemporary music on a spatially-distributed loudspeaker installation, followed by an improvisational performance for trumpet, electronics,and piano by Collins and Gabriel Paiuk. The concert starts at 7:30 PM; admission is free.
Friday 29 March
Actress & Young Paint
Astrid Sonne presents Cycles of Lost and Found
Bamba Pana & Makaveli
Clara! y Maoupa
Flohio
Gazelle Twin presents Pastoral
Jasmín
Jessica Sligter presents Polycrisis:Yes!
Jlin & Company Wayne McGregor present Autobiography Edits
Kampire
Lafawndah
Mette Henriette
Mohammad Reza Mortazavi
Niels Broos & Jamie Peet
Nosedrip
Otim Alpha
Red Brut
Sega Bodega
Sinjin Hawke & Zora Jones
Spekki Webu
Tanya Tagaq
Tashi Wada Group
Tim Hecker & Konoyo Ensemble
upsammy
Yves Tumor
Saturday 30 March
Anat Spiegel
Angel-Ho
Angel Bat Dawid
CTM
CURL
Diamanda Dramm
Doon Kanda
Eli Keszler
Elaine Mitchener & David Toop present Of Leonardo Da Vinci
Giant Swan
Henry Vega & Jan-Willem Troost
Jason Sharp
Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Jessica Pratt
Julia Holter Duo
Kelly Moran
Kit Downes & Ensemble Klang
Laurel Halo (dj)
Lotic presents Endless Power
Low
Maurice Louca Elephantine Band
Nicolás Jaar (solo live/dj hybrid)
Puce Mary
Sote
Spinifex
Tirzah
Violet
vtgnike
William Basinski & Lawrence English
YEK: Mohammad Reza Mortazavi & Burnt Friedman
Zeno van den Broek presents Breach
Sunday 31 March
Alex Zhang Hungtai
Andrea Belfi & Valerio Tricoli
Aurélie Lierman & But What About present Sogokuru
Bill Orcutt (solo electronics)
Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt
Dianne Verdonk
Foodman
Haron
Iona Fortune & NYX
Ipek Gorgun
Jennifer Walshe & Memo Akten present Ultrachunk
John Bence
Lucrecia Dalt & Alessandra Leone
Mark Fell
Nicolás Jaar Group
Patrick Higgins
Pierre Bastien & Tomaga
Refree
Sosena Gebre Eyesus
Xiu Xiu
Yona ft. Ash Koosha (live AI)
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