Rewire is happy to share the completed line-up for its 15th anniversary edition, taking place from 9 to 12 April. Today's announcement includes the full context programme, film programme, and 25 new artists and projects, thus completing the programme. With this announcement, the festival looks ahead to a weekend of exploratory and adventurous music in The Hague, presenting its most extensive programme to date. A limited number of Thursday Passes and tickets for Rewire x Laak, as well as Plus Tickets for Einstürzende Neubauten and Oneohtrix Point Never are still available via rewirefestival.nl/tickets
Rewire is excited to announce its context programme, taking place at The Grey Space in The Middle, Page Not Found, West Den Haag, Amare, and The Hague’s city centre. Situated around its music and performance line-up, Rewire’s context programme aims to open a space for collective reflection, and to bring the various practices of its artists into conversation with one another. Revolving around the politics and poetics of staging sound, further listening, times and territories, and instrumental ecologies, each day – through conversations, lectures, audio walks, workshops, and listening sessions – will examine different listening positions and forms of sonic sensibility in times of ongoing war, colonialism, and environmental collapse. Nearly all of Rewire's context programme is accessible for free, meaning a Rewire festival ticket is not required for entry. Read more about the context programme.
Rewire’s film programme intersects with and ponders upon the festival’s overarching themes of staging sound, further listening, times and territories, and instrumental ecologies – with a particular focus this year around the latter two themes. The programme returns to Filmhuis Den Haag for daily screenings of films which touch on urgent ideas around ecologies, tradition, and sounding including: Gianluca De Serio and Massimiliano De Serio's Canone effimero, which is a delicate documentary that focuses on the craftsmanship of a type of Calabrian bagpipe; Krakatoa by Carlos Casas, which is a sonic investigation into eruptions from the so-named volcano, linking two generations of accounts through stunning abstract vocals; and many more. Read more about the film programme here.
Canone effimero by Gianluca De Serio, Massimiliano De Serio
Joy Boy: A Tribute to Julius Eastman by Mawena Yehouessi, Fallon Mayanja, Rob Jacobs, Victoire Karera Kampire, Paul Shemisi, Anne Reijniers
Krakatoa by Carlos Casas
She Boars by Elsa Brès
The Seasons by Maureen Fazendeiro
To Use A Mountain by Casey Carter
Today, Rewire announces 25 artists and projects joining its programme, among them is a stunning audiovisual collaboration, Lucy Railton with Charlie Hope & Rebecca Salvadori ‘Not A Word From Me,’ which builds on over a decade of creative exchange and friendship between the three artists, resulting in a generous and engulfing environment where sound, gesture, image, and light entangle intimately. Electronic musician Matthew Herbert and drummer-vocalist Momoko aka Herbert & Momoko perform music from their soulful, elastic collaboration of house-inflected grooves, live improvisation, and lush, expansive arrangement. Rhythmanalyst, writer, musician, and curator DeForrest Brown Jr. also joins the line-up, performing his ‘Synoptic Audio’ piece under his own name, and again in a live show as Speaker Music. Tony Bontana – also performing at the festival as part of Everything is Psychedelic – brings a set of his untethered hip hop, while Slikback feat. maltdisney & Tasya present ‘Friction,’ a live AV show of monolithic dance percussion and cyberpunk visuality.
Rewire 2026 also presents a number of acts dabbling in electroacoustic invention and the reinterpretation of traditional instruments, including: the vocal ensemble XTC in the XIV; cellist Violeta García; artist Clément Vercelletto’s sculptural sound piece ‘L'Engoulevent’; and Abdullah Miniawy Trio – the project of Paris-Based Egyptian composer, writer, and singer Abdullah Miniawy, whose voice takes on multiple roles in the music: from humble witness to loud crier of truths to angelic song-weaver. Creating a breakneck and hyperactive fusion of noise, punk, hardcore, and psychedelic rock, Tokyo-based band GEZAN join the line-up. The experimental pop of vocalist, producer, and composer YATTA also joins the programme, as well as New Delhi artist Sijya – who draws from her inner monologues and translates them into dreamy art pop, rich with layers of synths, raw rhythms, and emotive vocals.
A number of The Hague- and Netherlands-based artists are returning to the festival with new projects, these include Mark IJzerman's ‘Flounder Maps,’ ROLROLROL, and Meetsysteem & Band. Another local artist joining the line-up is Jespfur, whose hypnagogic music channels golden-era Mediafire lo-fi slacker rock, packaged for the modern era with poetic writing chops and a glistening, experimental production approach. A plethora of genre-defying and floor-shaking DJs have also just joined the line-up, these include Batu b2b JASSS (playing together for the first time), mi-el, MOESHA 13, and local heroes of the Netherlands’ dance scene Chinnamasta, Dirtydms b2b Helmond Lang, Pebblle, Yb3L, and Jasmín – hot on the heels of her stomper debut EP on Hessle Audio. And finally, Rewire is happy to announce that artist Cevdet Erek’s exhibition ‘Ꜵccident Grotesque’ at West Den Haag will be hosted as part of Rewire 2026.
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Aaron Dilloway
Abdullah Miniawy Trio
Acopia
Actress & Suzanne Ciani ‘Concrète Waves’
Alejandra Cárdenas ‘A Body Like a Home’
Apparitions
Armand Hammer
Arnold Dreyblatt & Horse Lords
Ash Fure ‘Animal’
Asian Dope Boys ‘PHYSIS’
AWICHAS
Batu b2b JASSS
Bby Eco
Beatrice Dillon & Explore Ensemble
Berlinde Deman
Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Blawan ‘live’
Buttechno b2b Torus
By Storm
Cara Tolmie & Rian Treanor
Caterina Barbieri & MFO
Caterina Barbieri with ONCEIM
Cello Octet Amsterdam feat. Shishani & Moor Mother ‘Borrowed Time’
Cerys Hafana
Chinnamasta
Chunky Move ‘U>N>I>T>E>D’
Civilistjävel! & Mayssa Jallad
Clément Vercelletto ‘L'Engoulevent’
Colleen
Dagmar Zuniga
DeForrest Brown Jr.
Devon Rexi meets John T. Gast
Dim Garden
Dirtydms b2b Helmond Lang
Drew McDowall & Pedro Maia
Dumama
Einstürzende Neubauten
Eliana Glass
Elischa Heller
Eraserhead x Xiu Xiu
Everything Is Psychedelic
ex_libris
∈Y∋ + C.O.L.O
feeo
Fine
Flur
FRANKIE & Kelman Duran
ganavya
GEZAN
Hayden Pedigo (solo)
Hayden Pedigo (w/ string quartet)
Herbert & Momoko
Hilary Woods
Hulubalang
HxH
Immaculate Deception Of History (Moor Mother & Hieroglyphic Being)
james K
Jasmín
Jespfur
Jennifer Walton
Jessica Ekomane
Jim O'Rourke & Eiko Ishibashi
JJJJJerome Ellis
Joachim Badenhorst's Youran
Joanne Robertson & Oliver Coates
Joshua Chuquimia Crampton
Juana Molina
Katalin Ladik & Svetlana Maraš
KAVARI ‘live a/v’
Kee Avil
Khrystyna Kirik & Emma Rubikaite-Milasiute ‘Biophilic Vision’
Kim Gordon
KMRU & Nick Verstand ‘As Nature’
Kode9 b2b Deena Abdelwahed
KUNTARI
La Rat
Laurel Halo & Julian Charrière ‘Midnight Zone’
Leila Bordreuil
Los Thuthanaka
Lucy Railton, Rebecca Salvadori, Charlie Hope ‘Not A Word From Me’
M Alberto ‘Radio Vitó’
Malibu
Mammo
Mark IJzerman ‘Flounder Maps’
Mark Fell & Pat Thomas
Mayssa Jallad
Meetsysteem & Band
mi-el
Milkweed
Mireia Varón Gallofré ‘Not To Be Senseless: Skin Hunger’
MOESHA 13
Moritz von Oswald & The Hague Vocal Ensemble 'Silencio'
My New Band Believe
Natasha Pirard
Nazar
Nihiloxica
Nono Gigsta
NVST
OK Williams
ØKSE feat. billy woods
Oneohtrix Point Never
Ouri
Park Jiha
Pebblle
Polina Medvedeva & Andreas Kühne ‘Facing the Spills’
Purelink with Mika Oki
Raisa K
RAKTA
RAKTA & Mette Rasmussen
Raül Refree & Niño de Elche
Sacred Lodge
Sam Slater & guests ‘Lunng’
SANAM
Sary Moussa Trio
Shapednoise & Sevi Iko Dømochevsky ‘Absurd Matter Continuum’
Sijya
Slikback feat. maltdisney & Tasya ‘Friction’
Smerz
Sól Ey & Modelo62
Sombat Simla
Speaker Music
Standing on the Corner
State OFFF ‘Umzimba’
Stemeseder Lillinger
Sumac & Moor Mother
Supersilent & Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Susu Laroche
Suzan Peeters
The Bug & Dis Fig
The Silver Thread ‘Shackleton, Waclaw Zimpel, Siddhartha Belmannu, Giridhar Udupa, visuals by Pedro Maia’
Thomas Ankersmit ‘The Tcherepnin Series’
Tony Bontana
Tortoise
Tracey
Ugnė Uma & Pavel Milyakov
Valentina Magaletti & YPY
Violeta García
WaqWaq Kingdom feat. VJ Kalma ‘Amanogawa 天の川’
weed420
WRENS
XTC in the XIV
YATTA
Yb3L
Zeno van den Broek, Les Percussions de Strasbourg & HIIIT ‘Ways of [ ]’
Audio walk and performance: Takeaway
Book launch: Further Listening: On Adventurous Music and Sound
Book launch: Open Field Listening Station
Concert: CHORDIAL
Conversation: A Body Like a Home with Alejandra Cárdenas
Conversation: Beverly Glenn-Copeland and Elizabeth Copeland
Conversation: Concrète Waves with Actress and Suzanne Ciani
Conversation: Elements of Sounding with Juana Molina
Conversation: Embodied Futures with Antony Hamilton (Chunky Move)
Conversation: Environmental Sound with KMRU
Conversation: Facing the Spills with Polina Medvedeva and Andreas Kühne
Conversation: Folkloric Iterations with Sacred Lodge, Milkweed and Park Jiha
Conversation and listening session: Fragile Minutes with james K, Jennifer Walton and Malibu
Conversation and listening session: Kalponik Rekha
Conversation and listening session: Sary Moussa and Abed Kobeissy
Conversation and listening session: Staging Sound
Conversation and listening session: Universal Language: Feedback Static
Conversation: Instrumental Ecologies
Conversation: Machine Listening with Steve Goodman (Kode9)
Conversation: Music Journalism Today and Rewire Reflections launch
Conversation: Performing Gender in Music Technology, with Katalin Ladik & Svetlana Maraš
Conversation: Proximity Music: The Ongoing Hum
Conversation: Radio as an Artistic Space
Conversation: Resonant Histories with Mayssa Jallad
Conversation: Sonic Testimonies with Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Conversation: Staging Ritual with Tianzhuo Chen (Asian Dope Boys)
Installation: Remnants of Conversations
Installation: The Other Family
Lecture: Drumming X (anarchic magic)
Listening session: Stories to Sleep To
Listening session: Studio for Immediate Spaces & Wastewaves
Performance Route: Attentive Alleys
Performance: Sensing Sound
Radio: WORM x Rewire – live interviews and reports at The Grey Space in The Middle
Reading Aloud: Sonic Perspectives from the Global Souths
Sound walk: In Transit
Sound walk: Phones – The Hague 2026
Tactology Lab: MOTION
The Aurality & Orality Sessions #1
Who Goes There?: A Procession for Sonic Imaginaries
Workshop: Encounters with Field Recording with KMRU
Canone effimero by Gianluca De Serio, Massimiliano De Serio
Joy Boy: A Tribute to Julius Eastman by Mawena Yehouessi, Fallon Mayanja, Rob Jacobs, Victoire Karera Kampire, Paul Shemisi, Anne Reijniers
Krakatoa by Carlos Casas
She Boars by Elsa Brès
The Seasons by Maureen Fazendeiro
To Use A Mountain by Casey Carter
Aernoudt Jacobs ‘Humming the Ubique’
Anaïs Lossouarn ‘DE CŒUR EN CHOEURS [Hearts in Chorus | From heart to heart]’
Floris Vanhoof ‘Antenna’
Johannes Kreidler ‘Jet Whistles / The Grand Exhalation’
Koenraad de Groot ‘The Colour of Kameleon’
Lena Kuzmich ‘Photosynthesizer’
Mariska de Groot ‘BROM’
Cevdet Erek ‘Ꜵccident Grotesque’
Felix Bell, Gaia D’Arrigo & Nuno Lobo ‘What’s left speaks’
3-Day Passes, 4-Day Passes, and Day Passes for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday have sold out, but a limited number of Thursday Day Passes still remain for those who would like to join for the festival’s opening programme on Thursday 9 April at Amare featuring the brand new performance of Caterina Barbieri with ONCEIM, Actress & Suzanne Ciani Concrète Waves, and Caterina Barbieri & MFO. Tickets for Rewire x Laak, as well as Plus Tickets for Einstürzende Neubauten and Oneohtrix Point Never are currently also available. Book tickets via rewirefestival.nl/tickets