With Rewire 2019 just four weeks away, we are now revealing the complete programme for Rewire 2019, including the discourse programme, ten new artists and projects, and the festival timetable.
Spread across three days, from Friday, 29 March to Sunday, 31 March, the Rewire 2019 discourse programme reflects on contemporary artistic practice as it relates to ongoing conversations around creativity, collaboration and autonomy. This year, we focus on the shifting nature of music and musical performance, asking not only what is driving these changes, but what they mean for us now and in the future. For this, we have invited a selection of inspiring artists and speakers to engage with and reflect on two festival themes: Instrumental Shifts and Staging Sounds. Comprising a symposium, artist talks, presentations, panel discussions, workshops and screenings, the Rewire 2019 discourse programme takes place during the day and is free to attend for all.
This programme will feature: Rebecca Fiebrink, Mark Fell, Mick Grierson, Jesse Kanda, Federico Campagna, Nicolás Jaar, Low, Actress, Lotic & Emmanuel Biard, Jennifer Walshe & Memo Akten, Elaine Mitchener, Sega Bodega, Bob Sturm, Ash Koosha, Róisín Loughran, Thor Magnusson, Laura Agnusdei,Anna Mikkola, Dianne Verdonk, Folgert Karsdorp, Dick Rijken, Anja Volk, Mailin Chen, Hibiki Mukai, and Aimee Cliff.
In addition to the speakers, we have added a specially-commissioned sound walk by Justin Bennett, a Music Hackspace workshop with Rebecca Fiebrink on Machine Learning for Artists, the Creative Sound Lab by Crab Music, and an extensive film programme that explores the festival themes and artists through the cinematic lens.
Newly-confirmed to our music programme are British experimental producer Rian Treanor, Seattle-based DJ CCL, Rotterdam live-electro duo Animistic Beliefs, Annelies Monsoré, Mark IJzerman, RAFF, Stekkerdoos, Zoe Reddy, and De Methode.
We’re thrilled to reveal the timetable for Rewire 2019. Find out when each artist is performing and start prepping your festival routes at Timetable.
Please note that listed times may be subject to change. For the latest updates, keep an eye on our news section and check our Twitter. Printed timetables, as well as the programme guide, will be provided at the Festival Ticket & Info Desk.
Rewire 2019 Festival Passes, Day passes and Club Tickets are available now at Tickets.
With Instrumental Shifts, we zoom in on the rapidly changing technology used for music composition, taking in the many developments we see happening today while leaving space for speculative ideas on what could come next. The programme opens with the Instrumental Shifts Symposium at West Den Haag on Friday, 29 March. Organised by The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision RE:VIVE initiative, the one-day symposium will bring together leading researchers, academics and artists to explore new frontiers of computer science, music and future technologies, and features a keynote by Prof. Mick Grierson of Goldsmiths Digital and University of the Arts London’s Creative Computing Lab, and talks and presentations by, among others,, Dr. Bob Sturm, Prof. Róisín Loughran, and Dr. Thor Magnusson. The Instrumental Shifts Symposium is free to attend, but registration is required.
Extending across the rest of the festival weekend, the Instrumental Shifts programme features a keynote address by Prof. Rebecca Fiebrink on Sunday. A Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, Fiebrink’s research focuses on designing new ways for humans to interact with computers in creative practice, and her Rewire 2019 keynote will show how machine learning is opening doors to new forms of human creative expression. Teaming up with London-based collective Music Hackspace, Fiebrink will also host the Machine Learning for Artists workshop on Saturday, a hands-on introduction to user-friendly machine learning tools for creating new music and art. The workshop costs €10 and registration is required.
Completing the Instrumental Shifts programme, Darren Cunningham aka Actress will delve into his constantly evolving music practice and new AI/AV collaboration Young Paint, while Jennifer Walshe and Memo Akten join Dianne Verdonk for the Instrumental Shifts Panel. Visual artist Anna Mikkola will give a performative lecture exploring technology as a belief system and an arena of the unknown, and philosopher Federico Campagna will question the contemporary role of technology in constructing reality and the consequences this has for society.
Staging Sound observes the performative nature of music; the experience, ritual, and show. It takes an in-depth look into the ways in which artists are choosing to express, present and perform their music and what is driving that process. Best known for his visual collaborations with Björk, Arca, Kanye West and FKA Twigs, British artist Jesse Kanda will give a presentation of his processes and themes in his work, while Berlin-based DJ and producer Lotic will join visual collaborator Emmanuel Biard to reflect on their new audiovisual performance Endless Power. The programme concludes with the Staging Sound Panel discussion featuring pioneering electronic musician Mark Fell, vocal performance artist Elaine Mitchener and DJ and producer Sega Bodega.
In a special commission for Rewire 2019, British-Dutch artist Justin Bennett has created ‘Central Imaginary District’, a guided sound walk experience that responds to The Hague’s new metropolitan area development project ‘Central Innovation District’. Taking place in two shifts on the Saturday and Sunday of the festival, the sound walk features field recordings of the area, archival material, electronic sounds, and interviews with residents and students, and reacts to various locations along the walk. Registration is required as the walks have a limited capacity.
Having previously announced two performances by Nicolás Jaar, we’ve now added an exclusive artist talk on Saturday, 30 March. The Chilean-American musician and composer will reflect on his own musical journey and the diversity of his artistic practice. In addition to Nicolás Jaar, American trio Low will also be taking part in an artist talk. Hosted in collaboration with The Wire, Low will chart the course of their pioneering twenty-five-year career.
This year’s programme will also explore the festival themes and artists through the cinematic lens. Taking place on Saturday and Sunday, the Rewire 2019 film programme features in-depth conversations and installations on sound art in the form of the ‘All Sounds Considered’ documentary, Lawrence Lek’s ‘Geomancer’, where an artificial intelligence is intent on becoming the first sino-futuristic artist in a posthumanist world, Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s ‘Walled Unwalled’, Moroccan sci-fi odyssey ‘Party on the CAPS’, and Korakrit Arunanondchai & Alex Gvojic’s diaristic vision ‘No history in a room filled with people with funny names 5’.
Friday 29 March
Actress + Young Paint (live AV/AI)
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 presents self*care
Sinjin Hawke & Zora Jones
Spekki Webu
Stekkerdoos
Tanya Tagaq
Tashi Wada Group
Tim Hecker & Konoyo Ensemble
upsammy
Yves Tumor
Anja Volk, Mailin Chen and Hibiki Mukai (symposium lightning round)
Ash Koosha (symposium presentation)
Bob Sturm (symposium lecture)
Dick Rijken, Ash Koosha and Róisín Loughran (symposium panel)
Folgert Karsdorp (symposium lecture)
Laura Agnusdei (symposium performance)
Mick Grierson (symposium keynote)
Róisín Loughran (symposium lecture)
Thor Magnusson (symposium lecture)
Saturday 30 March
Anat Spiegel
Angel-Ho
Angel Bat Dawid
Animistic Beliefs
CCL
CTM
CURL
De Methode
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
Justin Bennett presents Central Imaginary District (sound walk)
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
RAFF
Rian Treanor
Sote
Spinifex
Tirzah
Violet
vtgnike
William Basinski & Lawrence English
YEK: Mohammad Reza Mortazavi & Burnt Friedman
Zeno van den Broek presents Breach
Zoe Reddy
All Sounds Considered (film)
Creative Sound Lab (workshop)
Elaine Mitchener, Mark Fell and Sega Bodega (staging sound panel)
In conversation with Actress (talk)
In conversation with Nicolás Jaar (talk)
In conversation with Low (talk)
In conversation with Lotic & Emmanuel Biard (talk)
Jesse Kanda (talk)
Music Hackspace presents Machine Learning for Artists (workshop)
Sunday 31 March
Alex Zhang Hungtai
Annelies Monsoré
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
Justin Bennett presents Central Imaginary District (sound walk)
Lucrecia Dalt & Alessandra Leone
Mark Fell
Mark IJzerman
Nicolás Jaar & Group
Patrick Higgins
Pierre Bastien & Tomaga
Refree
Sosena Gebre Eyesus
Xiu Xiu
Yona ft. Ash Koosha (live AI)
Anna Mikkola (performative-lecture)
Federico Campagna (talk)
Geomancer (film)
Jennifer Walshe, Memo Akten and Dianne Verdonk (instrumental shifts panel)
No history in a room filled with people with funny names 5 (film)
Party on the CAPS (film)
Rebecca Fiebrink (keynote)
Walled Unwalled (film)
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