Rewire is pleased to unveil a second wave of 30 artists and projects joining the line-up for its 15th anniversary edition, taking place from 9 to 12 April 2026 across different The Hague venues. From iconic and established artists who have been stalwarts of adventurous music across long careers to way-paving new artists who are helping to redefine the boundaries of genre and experimentation, the line-up for Rewire 2026 continues to evolve and unfold, as exemplified by the exciting artists joining the line-up today. While 4-Day Passes and 3-Day Passes are now sold out, Day Passes for Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday are currently still available via rewirefestival.nl/tickets.
Rewire is excited to reveal that Kim Gordon will be playing at the festival on Saturday, 11 April, performing music from her newly announced forthcoming album PLAY ME. Since going solo from Sonic Youth, the new sound that she has been honing across her last two albums features industrial barrages of churning noise and synths, and sweltering low ends draped in veils of distortion. Massive bass drums and trap snares form marching beats for Gordon's stream-of-consciousness lyrics and iconic lustrous vocals to take on new gargantuan scales. Catch Gordon’s live show with her band at Amare’s Concertzaal on Saturday night.
An unmissable project that melds contemporary dance, fashion, technology, and music is joining the Rewire 2026 line-up: contemporary dance company Chunky Move bring U>N>I>T>E>D to the festival. It is a cybernetic performance of apocalyptic scavengers in a speculative world where machine mystics tread the post-industrial wreckage. With a soundtrack by Balinese DIY electronic duo Gabber Modus Operandi, costume design by streetwear label Future Loundry, and animatronic robotics by Creature Technology Co., this one-of-a-kind performance brings together cutting-edge practitioners in a multidisciplinary display of kinetic majesty. As maximal hardcore beats and bursting arpeggiated riffs resound in the space, the performers dis- and reassemble their machinic limbs, linking their bodies together as hacker convergences of meat and metal.
In a world premiere audiovisual performance, avant-garde improvisers Supersilent and visual artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan present a brand new work at the festival. Supersilent's microtonal alien-song, improvised ambience, and strange electro-acoustic reveries are a perfect fit for Abu Hamdan, a sonic researcher, visual artist, director, and Turner Prize winner whose projects reflect on the political and cultural context of sound and listening. In another thrilling world premiere audiovisual collaboration, As Nature sees the bristling ambient soundscapes of KMRU being responded to by artist and light designer Nick Verstand, through a wafting spectacle of encompassing lightweight fabrics that are manipulated through airflow, lasers, LEDs, and smoke. In a world premiere at Rewire 2026, artist Julian Charrière's latest film Midnight Zone, a watery chronicle of an area threatened by deep-sea mining, is presented with an accompanying live score by Laurel Halo – an artist who uses minimalism, ambient, musique concrète, and jazz approaches to meld the materiality and spirituality of sound.
Expect a face-melting and mind-warping audiovisual battery as the mutant cyberkinetic noise of Yamantaka Eye (Boredoms, Hanatarash, Puzzle Punks), aka ∈Y∋, is combined with the rampant visuals of C.O.L.O from Osaka’s Cosmic Lab to birth an A/V show like no other at Rewire 2026. As a former member of two truly legendary groups – Psychic TV and Coil – composer and musician Drew McDowall has been a pioneering mainstay of experimental music for decades. At the festival, McDowall presents music from his fifth solo studio album A Thread, Silvered and Trembling as a 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. Absurd Matter 2 is Shapednoise's latest release, a wild combination of noisy horrorcore production, dark techno beats, and corrupted two-step swings that features an all-star list of collaborators. He joins the line-up for Rewire 2026, presenting music from the record accompanied by visualisations from Sevi Iko Dømochevsky, a Barcelona-based multidisciplinary artist, and with a special guest appearance from Armand Hammer.
Two major figures of British experimental music perform together at the festival this year: multidisciplinary artist and composer Mark Fell and revered improvisational pianist Pat Thomas interweave the timeless timbres of the piano with an unfurling chaotic assemblage of electronic sounds. Another duo joining the line-up who work across electro-acoustic jazz experiments is Stemeseder Lillinger. Malfunction and disorder coalesce in their compositions for piano, harpsichord, and synthesisers (Stemeseder), and drums, percussion, and electronics (Lillinger). Expanding on jazzy textures to reveal a world of vivid storytelling and resonant, folk-rooted instrumentation is South African musician, composer, and vocalist Dumama. She performs intricate electro-acoustic music from her forthcoming debut solo album at the festival, joined by her band.
Also joining the Rewire 2026 line-up, My New Band Believe is the new band from, believe it or not, musician Cameron Picton – the multi-instrumentalist and vocalist of Black Midi. With moments of soft jazzy instrumentation, wistful lyricism, proggy abstraction, and Tropicália warmth, My New Band Believe are soulful yet sensitive, fast-paced yet patient, and bursting with energetic strangeness and contradictions. Raisa K's debut full-length album Affectionately is a work of dark textural pop brimming with shoegazey noise and basked in dreamy vocals. Her music shows a dedication to inventive sonics which form beauty from noise and debris; like kintsugi ceramics, Raisa's voice forms the golden lining that binds these gnarled and wrinkled fragments into something gorgeously awry and vitally renewed. Catch Raisa K perform at Rewire 2026. Also at the festival this year is Acopia. Their music hovers around jangle pop sounds – with dreamy lustre and catchy melodies – while also taking forays into breaks-laden trip hop and electronic pop – with reverberating arpeggios, cruising drum machines, and twinkling synthesis.
The illusory music of home-recorder and musician Dagmar Zuniga projects a ghostly picture; witness what she conjures when she performs her phantasmal songs this April in The Hague with her band. She summons the forward-thinking experimentation in folk songforms that Norma Tanega and Linda Perhacs were stalwarts of, and couples that with the foggy, psychedelic, DIY sensibilities of early Brian Jonestown Massacre and Beat Happening. Another artist who magically recontextualises folk and pop sounds in a giddy yet sensitive way is Jennifer Walton. Her debut album Daughters tackles large themes around grief and absence, yet her songs are not morbid. She uses deconstructed guitar to create woozy, maximal collages of digital sounds. Her thoughtful form of hyper pop is a kinetic puzzle of jovial maximalism that's warmly distorted and crunchy with compression; hear her perform at Rewire with a live band.
True to her namesake, Eliana Glass's music twinkles and shines, refracting contemporary life with prismatic grace through her timeless voice. Glass's heartwarming songs touch every corner of life's emotive boundaries through sparseness, careful, minimal composition, and poetic lyricism; hear her perform music from her debut album E at this year's festival. Taking traditional Korean instruments like the Piri (double-reed bamboo oboe), Saenghwang (bamboo mouth organ), and Yanggeum (hammered dulcimer), composer, musician, and performer Park Jiha invokes a careful combination of classical minimalism and improvised contemporary music. She plays a solo set at Rewire 2026, returning to the festival after a performance with her band eight years ago. Specialising in sound design and textural experimentation, Sary Moussa is a musician whose work spans drone-driven electro-acoustic compositions to dance-floor electronics. At Rewire 2026, he is joined by Julia Sabra and Abed Kobeissi to bring his 2025 record Wind, Again to life as Sary Moussa Trio. Informed by his evolving relationships to space and resonance, his music is a harmonic tapestry of fluttering sounds that are inspired by the histories its folk instruments (such as the buzuq) carry.
Treading a fine (and erratic) line between traditional Bugandan drum music, industrial post-punk, and club-ready rave music, Nihiloxica are a group like no other. It is the outcome of a collaboration between Ugandan drummers Henry Isabirye, Henry Kasoma, and Jamiru Mwanje, UK-based producer Pete Jones (pq), and the Amsterdam-based producer Jacob Maskell-Key (Spooky-J). Following two earth-shattering releases, Kaloli and Source of Denial, they are preparing a new album, which they'll perform in one of their infamously energetic live sets at Rewire 2026. Performing twice at the festival are the genre-bending group RAKTA. Emerging from the DIY scene of São Paulo, they draw listeners into a captivating world of noise and melody and rhythm through their energetic and atmospheric live performances. They play once as a trio, and again, as RAKTA & Mette Rasmussen, with the incomparable improvisational saxophonist. Somewhere between kraut-rock spiritualism, post-punk grittiness, and cinematic giallo-horror funkiness, RAKTA create cacophonous and bristling compositions – a perfect fit for Rasmussen's boundary-pushing playing which truly stretches the capabilities of the instrument.
The ritualistic music of filmmaker-turned-sonic-experimentor Susu Laroche brings audiences into a ceremonial procession of droning ecstasy and percussion; hear it at Rewire 2026. Also joining the line-up is Elischa Heller, whose futuristic yet decorative music brings rapid beats, forlorn drones, and poppy melodies together into a gathering of sonic magicks. Sludgy, dark electronics, trap percussion, and swirling pillars of noise and texture encircle Sacred Lodge. He brings to the festival music from his cacophonous second album Ambam, which channels the visceral energy of horrorcore and experimental dub while also paying homage to his Equato-Guinean heritage. Working across improvisation, industrial noise, musique concrète, and field recording, Aaron Dilloway is a leading figure of the US experimental noise scene, perhaps best known for his involvement with Wolf Eyes. At Rewire 2026, Dilloway presents one of his radical, idiosyncratic solo shows. Everything Is Psychedelic is the duo of Birmingham MC Tony Bontana and London-based producer psychedelic ensemble. They splashed into the scene with a multi-coloured splattering of leftfield hip hop – combining wild, harsh, playful production and wisecracking yet deep lyricism. A gritty, no wave sensibility pulses through their music, from moments of fuzzy ambient noise and slick industrial beats, to abrasive punk vocals and bizarre, infectious samples; they perform live at Rewire 2026.
The khene is an ancient bamboo mouth organ associated with Laos but also found across East and Southeast Asia; Sombat Simla, from Isaan in Thailand, is considered one of the greatest living players of this instrument and he will be performing at Rewire 2026. Simla's innovative use of the khene inventively reimagines both traditional and popular songs, but also imitates others instruments and non-musical sounds, like those one hears on a journey: shaking trains, traffic crossings, and the many little interruptions and surprises that characterise a vivid life. Brussels-based accordionist, composer, and improviser Suzan Peeters also joins the line-up for this year's edition. She takes the bodily, gestural, and breathy characteristics of the accordion and infuses this age-old folk instrument with cybernetic, noisy potential. The droning abstraction, minimalistic noise, and motorik staccato stabs in her accordion performances gleam with cinematic charge and character, sounding at times like an entirely new instrument. Thomas Ankersmit is a musician, composer, and specialist on the Serge Modular analog synthesiser, who has released on labels such as PAN, Touch, and Shelter Press. His latest project The Tcherepnin Series is based upon Ankersmit's pilgrimages to Serge synthesisers across the globe. Creating both large cacophonous noise and subtle whirring texture, there is an uncontrollable warmth pulsing through these systems; at Rewire, Ankersmit performs live on his own Serge system and combines this with recorded material from this global network of Serge synthesisers.
While this announcement shares many new exciting projects joining the line-up, there are still more artists expected to appear at Rewire 2026. Keep an eye out for the forthcoming announcements where more news will be shared about Rewire’s context programme, installations, workshops, and film programme, as well as new music acts and projects.
Rewire 2026 line-up so far: *new artists in bold
Aaron Dilloway
Acopia
Actress & Suzanne Ciani ‘Concrète Waves’
Alejandra Cárdenas ‘A Body Like Home’
Apparitions
Armand Hammer
Ash Fure ‘Animal’
Beatrice Dillon & Explore Ensemble world premiere
Beverly Glenn-Copeland with special guest Elizabeth Copeland
Blawan (live)
Cara Tolmie & Rian Treanor
Caterina Barbieri world premiere
Caterina Barbieri with ONCEIM world premiere
Chunky Move ‘U>N>I>T>E>D’
Civilistjävel! & Mayssa Jallad world premiere
Dagmar Zuniga
Drew McDowall & Pedro Maia
Dumama
Einstürzende Neubauten
Eliana Glass
Elischa Heller
Eraserhead x Xiu Xiu
Everything Is Psychedelic
ex_libris world premiere
∈Y∋ + C.O.L.O
feeo
Fine
Flur
ganavya
Hayden Pedigo
Hilary Woods
james K
Jennifer Walton
Jim O'Rourke & Eiko Ishibashi
JJJJJerome Ellis
Joanne Robertson & Oliver Coates
Joshua Chuquimia Crampton
Juana Molina
Katalin Ladik & Svetlana Maraš
KAVARI (live)
Kim Gordon
KMRU & Nick Verstand ‘As Nature’ world premiere
KUNTARI
La Rat
Laurel Halo & Julian Charrière ‘Midnight Zone’ world premiere
Los Thuthanaka
Malibu
Mark Fell & Pat Thomas
Mayssa Jallad
Milkweed
My New Band Believe
Nihiloxica
ØKSE feat. billy woods world premiere
Oneohtrix Point Never
Park Jiha
Purelink with Mika Oki
Raisa K
RAKTA
RAKTA & Mette Rasmussen
Raül Refree & Niño de Elche
Sacred Lodge
Sary Moussa Trio
Shapednoise & Sevi Iko Dømochevsky ‘Absurd Matter Continuum’
Smerz
Sombat Simla
Stemeseder Lillinger
Sumac & Moor Mother
Supersilent & Lawrence Abu Hamdan world premiere
Susu Laroche
Suzan Peeters
Thomas Ankersmit ‘The Tcherepnin Series’
Tortoise
Tracey
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Tickets
While 4-Day Passes and 3-Day Passes are now sold out, Day Passes for Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday are currently still available via rewirefestival.nl/tickets. For the concerts by Oneohtrix Point Never (Friday 10 April) and Einstürzende Neubauten (Sunday 12 April), a Plus Ticket is required, with the first batch for Oneohtrix Point Never now sold out and a second batch arriving in early 2026.