In the second of our daily guides for Rewire’s music programme, we take a look at some select performances happening today at the festival. 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.

The Silver Thread

17:00–17:45 at Amare – Danstheater

The Silver Thread is a new collaboration between Shackleton, Wacław Zimpel, Siddhartha Belmannu, and Giridhar Udupa, who have a debut release planned for label AD 93. Shackleton is a producer whose work has moved from the UK dubstep scene of the mid-2000s into urban-ritual electronics that draw on dub, minimalism, and devotional music traditions; Zimpel is a composer, clarinetist, multi-instrumentalist whose practice spans jazz, improvisation, and folk-trance forms; Belmannu is a Hindustani classical vocalist; and Udupa is a percussionist known for his mastery of the ghatam, a clay pot instrument central to South Indian classical music. Together, The Silver Thread merges urban-ritual electronics with live instrumentation from Hindustani and Carnatic classical traditions and outer-limits raga interpretations. Early this evening, they perform with live visuals from artist Pedro Maia, who works with 16mm and 8mm film to create analogue-digital hybrid cinema experiences.

Apparitions

17:15–18:00 at Theater aan het Spui – Zaal 1

Apparitions make their European premiere performance this evening. A holy trinity of drums, guitar, and modular synthesis combine to create the unholy and glorious wall of droning sound that defines the band. Their latest album, Volcanic Reality earns its namesake, as it spews ash and quakes foundations with its snarling drone metal brilliance. Occasionally, their cataclysmic percussion and distortion-drenched guitar simmers out so that beaming shimmers of ambience can shine through like sunbeams through mist. But it's not long before the group's fuzzy droning cacophony reemerges, as the ground shifts and a new molten eruption cascades forth.

Asian Dope Boys

18:00–02:00 at Amare – Studio

Starting off with one of the most ambitious projects happening today, PHYSIS by Asian Dope Boys is an eight-hour-long durational performance. For PHYSIS, Tianzhuo Chen (the artist behind Asian Dope Boys), brings together an extensive supergroup including Dis Fig, Ican Harem (GMO), Kasimyn (GMO), KIM KHAN, Felix-Florian Tödtloff, City, Ndoho Ange, Lavinia Vago, Léa Djyl, OMI, Siko Setyanto, Ylva Falk, and Goth Trad. Part-theatre and part-rave, this eight-hour-long work blurs the boundaries between performance, club, concert, and theatre and treats audiences to an immersive durational experience. You can learn more about PHYSIS and Asian Dope Boys by checking out our interview with Tianzhuo Chen in the programme booklet or online here.

Alejandra Cárdenas 'A Body Like a Home'

19:45–20:30 at Nieuwe Kerk

Alejandra Cárdenas's music bursts with curiosity. Her playful and off-kilter electronics and left-field guitar style are melodically intriguing and brim with the gaiety of someone who is familiar with skirting conventions (under her Ale Hop moniker). Her latest album, A Body Like a Home, centres on Cárdenas’s own voice, which takes on the dual role of witness and confessor, speaking to political upheaval and change in her home country. From collage-like field recordings and spoken word to haunting violin and whirring electronics, Cárdenas's confessional songs are moving and personal while also feeling abstract and uncanny. Cárdenas will be joined live by Gibrana Cervantes on violin and Ignacio Briceño on guitar.

Cárdenas also appears in conversation with Giada Dalla Bontà today, 15:30–16:15 at Page Not Found

Sumac & Moor Mother

20:55–21:45 at Amare – Concertzaal

In 2025, Sumac – a band who infect metal music with a free jazz player's unpredictability and a noise musician's penchant for chaos and texture – joined forces with a cultural icon: poet and sound artist Moor Mother, coming off the back of the adored album The Great Bailout (2024). The outcome of this special, once-in-a-blue-moon kind of collaboration was The Film (2025), an uncompromising work of sludgy metal, experimental guitar music, and cutting-edge spoken word. Catch this one-of-a-kind cross-genre performance at Amare’s Concertzaal this evening.

Hilary Woods

21:15–22:00 at Lutherse Kerk

On her latest release, Night CRIÚ, Irish artist Hilary Woods returns to using her voice – parting the veil of mystery that ruminates in her compositions, placing herself into the fray of her experimental ambient slowcore production. Night CRIÚ’s sonic palette features floods of texture, brass, strings, drone, and field recordings, which converge around Woods's refined yet powerful vocals. Moving between lightness and darkness, between moments of ecstatic reveal and hushed sections of restraint, Woods's dusky songs linger in the heart as much as they do in the ear.

Malibu

23:15–00:00 at Grote Kerk

Malibu is a composer and vocalist whose otherworldly music spans drone, neoclassical, dance, and pop. Her euphorically meditative music muses on cities, seas, and the self, pillowing these themes in pianos and woodwinds, strings, and pads. While some sing of what washes into the shore of contemporary life, Malibu's music is of the cusping waves over its horizon and of what soaking truths swim beneath them, out of grasp yet slowly careening into view, carried by water. With deep ambient production and fractured piano melodies that recall The Fragile-era Trent Reznor and vocal calls that summon the eternal lilt of Enya's voice, Malibu's choral arrangements shimmer at the surface of an ocean of ambient pop.

Rewire’s late-night programming

From 23:00, at PAARD, The Grey Space in the Middle – Basement, and Laak

A plethora of genre-defying and floor-shaking DJs bring their selections to Rewire 2026 tonight. The basement of The Grey Space in the Middle heats up with sets from MOESHA 13, Chinnamasta, and Yb3L, playing until 5 a.m. Closing out the night at PAARD are Batu b2b JASSS – playing a back-to-back set for the first time ever – in PAARD I, while mi-el offers PAARD II her mixture of contemporary bass, electro, and vanguard electronics. And in its first partnership with cult The Hague club Laak, Rewire x Laak runs until the early hours of Sunday morning with sets from OK Williams, Buttechno b2b Torus, Nono Gigsta, and The Hague local Dim Garden.⁠

Photo by Alex Heuvink