With just four weeks until Rewire 2018, we are pleased to unveil the complete programme for Rewire 2018, including the discourse programme, six new performances and the festival timetable.
Spread across three days, from Friday, 6 April to Sunday, 8 April, the Rewire 2018 discourse programme is our most extensive yet. Aiming to connect music to wider cultural and social conversations and reflect on artistic practice in both historical and current contexts, we have invited a selection of inspiring artists and speakers to engage with and reflect on our festival themes: Sense of Self, Network Music and Electronic Music Innovation in Historical Context. Comprising artist talks, presentations, panel discussions, workshops and screenings, the Rewire 2018 discourse programme takes place during the day and is free for all.
The programme will feature talks by Beatriz Ferreyra, Clifford Sage, E. Jane, Frances Morgan, James Holden, Jan de Heer, Jeremy Gilbert,, Juliana Huxtable, Legacy Russell, Lori Napoleon, Marija Bozinovska Jones, Kees Tazelaar, Laurie Anderson and.
In addition to the speakers, there will be screenings of Laurie Anderson’s critically-acclaimed film, Heart of a Dog, an immersive audiovisual reproduction of Le poème électronique by Kees Tazelaar and Jan de Heer, an exhibition of Tristan Perich’s Drawing Machines and Listening Stations installations, and workshops by Music Hackspace and The School of Noise.
Newly-confirmed to our music programme are South Korean composer and piri masterPark Jiha, electronic duo (dj-set), the new collaborative project of Ivan Vukosavljevic & Il Hoon Son (co-produced by Gaudeamus), Dutch techno producersSyncom Data and Identified Patient, and contemporary dance performance ‘Momentum’ by CocoonDance.
Espresso Records host a special Rewire edition of The Hague Record Fair. They’ve invited a wide array of national record shops and labels to suit the most eclectic of crate diggers, soundtracked by the finest local selectors. And at West Den Haag, Rewire 2018 attendees can visit the large-scale solo exhibitionAlways Rings Twice, featuring the works of influential American artist Gary Hill.
We’re excited to reveal the timetable for Rewire 2018. 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 at Het Nutshuis (Riviervismarkt 5).
Rewire 2018 Festival and Day passes are available now at Tickets.
Sense of Self
Sense of Self traces the acceleration of our understanding of selfhood, identity and representation. We speak to Philadelphia artist E. Jane about their popstar alter ego MHYSA and contextualise their practice alongside Legacy Russell’s concept of Glitch Feminism. Marija Bozinovska Jones will examine the self as a distributed datafied identity through her avatar alias MBJ Wetware, while Jeremy Gilbert, explores the history of music as a means for consciousness-raising in order to begin to plan for its future.
Network Music considers the way we communicate, distribute and organise through music. As a member of Quantum Natives, Clifford Sage will untangle the world-building platform they’ve established, Jon Davies questions what it means to be underground in 2018, a time of democratised music software and hegemonic platforms, and we’ll join Juliana Huxtable for an artist talkabout her intellectual wanderings, learning how she navigates reality and questions the cultural forces that lean upon her artistic practice.
Electronic Music Innovation In Historical Context
The last of our themes places technological innovations in the field of sound and music production into historical and current day context. We join in reconstructing electronic music histories, an artist talk from Lori Napoleon on her commissioned project, Telegraph Music, a panel titled, Women in Radio, from New Emergences and an artist talk with musique concrète pioneer Beatriz Ferreyra.
Complementing the Electronic Music Innovation In Historical Context programme, architect and composer present their reconstruction of Le Corbusier’s iconic Le poème électronique. Using film material preserved by EYE and Le Corbusier’s script, they have recreated the piece as an immersive audiovisual experience, followed by talks about the original’s pioneering compositional and architectural achievements.
Having previously announced their live performances, we’ve now completed Laurie Anderson and Tristan Perich’s Artist in Focus programmes. In addition to her talk with The Wire, Laurie Anderson will be presenting a screening of her acclaimed feature-length film Heart of a Dog on Sunday, while Tristan Perich explores his use of 1-bit electronics in an artist talk on Friday and presents an exhibition of his installations, Drawing Machines and Listening Stations, on Saturday.
Resident Advisor presents a live edition of their weekly interview podcast The Exchange on Rewire’s Saturday. Staff writer Holly Dicker will be speaking to James Holden about his transformation from producer to live musician and bandleader, his latest album The Animal Spirits, and his obsession with jazz greats like Don Cherry and Pharoah Saunders.
Taking place on Saturday and Sunday, will present the Collaborative Network Music Workshop in which they explore ways to collaborate musically, exchanging synthesis and composition information over a network. Also on Saturday, The School of Noise host an all-ages, walk-in workshop traversing the wonderful world of sound. Using a variety of noise-making and sound-sculpting machines, they present creative and imaginative activities that use sound in a myriad of accessible, fun and educational ways.
Friday 6 April
AMMAR 808
Ben Vince
Boi Mesa
Deena Abdelwahed
Fatima Al Qadiri presents Ja7eem
Floating Points – solo live
Gagi Petrovic
Identified Patient
JASSS
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society
Juju & Jordash (dj)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
LYZZA – live
MHYSA
Mia Zabelka, James Plotkin & Benjamin Finger
Ninos Du Brasil
Raphael Vanoli
Royal Conservatoire String Ensemble performs Tristan Perich’s Active Field
SCRAAATCH
Širom
SOPHIE – live
Sven Kacirek
Syncom Data
The Music of Stranger Things performed by Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein
Umfang
Volvox
Zimpel/Ziolek
Ziúr
Artist talk: Tristan Perich (talk)
Tristan Perich: Drawing Machines + Listening Stations (exhibition)
Saturday 7 April
Arto Lindsay & Zs
Avalon Emerson
Carmen & Matthew Schoen
Chino Amobi
Daniel O’Sullivan & Dream Lion Ensemble
Ellen Arkbro + Zinc & Copper
Elysia Crampton presents Red Clouds
FAKA
Glice & Dieter Vandoren
Irreversible Entanglements
James Holden & The Animal Spirits
Ji Youn Kang
Karen Gwyer
Kepla
Lanark Artefax – live a/v
Laurence Pike
Nadia Struiwigh
Nina Kraviz
Oberman
Oceanic
Panda Bear
Paul Twin
PAUS
Quantum Natives presents Nexus (II)
Ragazze Quartet performs Laurie Anderson’s Sol
Stephan Meidell + ensemble present Metrics
SUUNS
The Thing
UUUU
Vicky Chow performs Tristan Perich’s Surface Image
Visionist + Pedro Maia – live a/v
Yon Eta
Clifford Sage (talk)
Gary Hill – Always Rings Twice (exhibition)
In conversation with E.Jane (talk)
In conversation with Juliana Huxtable (talk)
In conversation with Laurie Anderson (talk)
Heart of a Dog (screening)
Jeremy Gilbert (talk)
Jon Davies (talk)
Le poème électronique by Jan de Heer & Kees Tazelaar (screening + talk)
Legacy Russell (talk)
Marija Bozinovska Jones (performative lecture)
Music Hackspace presents Collaborate Network Music (workshop)
RA Exchange: James Holden (talk)
School of Noise (workshop)
The Hague Record Fair: Rewire special (fair)
Tristan Perich: Drawing Machines + Listening Stations (exhibition)
Sunday 8 April
Antenes presents Telegraph Music
Beatriz Ferreyra
CoCoonDance presents Momentum
Golden Retriever
Jasper Stadhouders’ PolyBand
Juliana Huxtable presents Triptych
Kareem Lotfy
Ivan Vukosavljević & Il Hoon Son
Laura Agnusdei
Laurie Anderson performs All The Things I Lost In The Flood
Maryam Saleh, Maurice Louca & Tamer Abu Ghazaleh
Nadah El Shazly (full band)
Park Jiha
Rupert Clervaux & Ben Vince
Sugai Ken
Tom Rogerson
Tristan Perich performs Noise Patterns/1-Bit Solo
Za!
Frances Morgan (talk)
Gary Hill – Always Rings Twice (exhibition)
Musical Material: Beatriz Ferreyra (talk)
Musical Material: Lori Napeleon (talk)
Music Hackspace presents Collaborative Network Music (workshop)
New Emergences: Women in Radio (panel)