Today, we share our first in a series of daily guides for Rewire’s music programme. With so many artists to see, this is just a small selection of potential highlights to catch among an expansive programme of performances, talks, installations, and screenings across the city.

Be sure to check out the full programme timetable here, including the Proximity Music: The Ongoing Hum exhibition, our film programme at Filmhuis Den Haag, and the discussions, audio walks, and workshops hosted as part of our context programme.

Sam Slater & guests

21:25–22:10 at Amare – Concertzaal

Sam Slater presents his new album Lunng at Rewire 2026 in the form of an audiovisual show with video from director Lukas Feigelfeld, stage design by visual artist and lightning designer Theresa Baumgärtner, and accompanied by a cast of renowned musicians from the experimental music scene: Lucy Railton on cello, Maria W. Horn on vocals, Hillary Jeffrey on trombone, Petra Hermanova on vocals and autoharp, and Andrew Bernstein (from Horse Lords) on saxophone – a group joining together for one night only at Rewire.From the extravagant distortion of 2000s metal and the otherworldly voice of Horn, to stirring trombone swells and eerie yet warm saxophone trills, Slater builds a uniquely dark and foreboding sound world of swarming contradictions and cathartic noise. To learn more about the performance, read our recent interview with Sam Slater here.

Chunky Move ‘U>N>I>T>E>D'

17:40–18:35 and 22:30–23:25 at Amare – Danstheater

Chunky Move is a contemporary dance company led by artistic director Antony Hamilton. U>N>I>T>E>D is their unmissable cybernetic performance of apocalyptic scavengers in a speculative world where machine mystics tread the post-industrial wreckage. In this major international collaboration, the soundtrack is provided by Balinese DIY electronic duo Gabber Modus Operandi; the costuming is designed by streetwear label Future Loundry; and the animatronic robotics are by Creature Technology Co. In U>N>I>T>E>D, insectoid limbs protrude from the six performers; above them, a hovering beam traces a timeline between the past and future which the performers come in and out of attachment to. 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. 

Drew McDowall & Pedro Maia

22:15–23:00 at Grote Kerk

A former member of two truly legendary groups – Psychic TV and Coil – Scottish composer and musician Drew McDowall began releasing solo records with Dais Records just over a decade ago. He delves into the hallucinatory, hypnagogic spaces between intimate reality and the celestially infinite. He melds intricate modular soundscapes with cut-up samples while deconstructing electro-acoustic sounds into a tapestry of whirring, shuddering elegance. An opus of tumultuous timbres falling in and out of harmony and dissonance, angelic yet devilish, soothing yet confronting, A Thread, Silvered and Trembling is McDowall's fifth and latest studio album. Tonight, McDowall presents the album as a special live AV 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.

weed420

20:00–21:00 at PAARD II

From hyper-emo to dial-up dance, weed420's immaculate and labyrinthian processions of maximalist vaporwave and lo-fi are overflowing with ideas, creativity, and joyful abandon. They are a collective of DIY musicians based in Venezuela. As text-to-speech poetics meet DJ tag mania, their bricolage style moves between sombre cloud-rap and wafty ambient to maximal mashup and dancefloor quakers; they pull from the sounds of their surroundings, connecting reggaeton bass with chopped ‘n’ screwed trap. Amid political turmoil, weed420's music offers a soundtrack to a lost generation of Venezuelan youth, conjuring sounds and visions of blissful adolescent twilights and late nights on Discord group calls.

Flur

22:15–23:00 at Lutherse Kerk

Experimental jazz trio Flur’s debut album, Plunge, released in September with Parisian label Latency – who have released Rewire alumni such as TLF Trio, goat (jp), and Valentina Magaletti. On Plunge, Flur delivers a generous glimpse into their world of macro-minimal spiritual jazz, which pays homage to the artists who crystalised this sound – such as Alice Coltrane – while sounding thoroughly contemporary through its bright production and experimental, exploratory approach.

Cerys Hafana

00:20–01:05 at Korzo – Zaal

Through their exploration of traditional songs and archival material, triple harpist and composer Cerys Hafana takes traditional music and transforms it into something mutated and new. Their third album Angel, excels as an exploration of minimalism, traditional, and avant-folk music; peering backwards yet moving forwards it meanders through time and cadence, is performed with soft confidence, and is sung heart-stirringly in Hafana's native Welsh. Their music is a reminder of the capacity for music to transcend the legibility of one's spoken language and communicate beyond the boundaries of implicit understanding to tell tales and summon emotions as old as time.

∈Y∋ + C.O.L.O

01:00–02:00 at Theater aan het Spui – Zaal 1

A swarming bundle of chaos and fun surrounds Yamantaka Eye, aka ∈Y∋, the visionary founder of legendary avant-noise groups Boredoms, Hanatarash, and Puzzle Punks. Working since the 1980s, ∈Y∋'s output has influenced and shaped experimental music in his native Japan and across the globe. From noise and psychedelia to performance art and visual art, ∈Y∋'s career is a collage of creative mischief and devilish collaborations. Expect a face-melting and mind-warping audiovisual battery as the mutant cyberkinetic noise of ∈Y∋ is combined with the rampant visuals of C.O.L.O from Osaka’s Cosmic Lab to birth an immersive audiovisual performance.

Photo by Alex Heuvink