Last year’s Rewire Reflections invited aspiring and early-career critics, writers, and researchers to join an intensive writing workshop led by María Mazzanti (editor, writer, architect, and educator specialising in editorial practices and publishing cultures), and to create a zine that was launched on the last day of the festival. Participants were given the opportunity to interview artists and speakers or to reflect upon the festival’s music, context and film programme, whether in traditional reviews, discursive essays or more experimental, playful forms of the writer’s own invention. A limited edition of 200 copies of the zine were distributed during the festival, but for those who didn’t manage to get one, enjoy reading the zine via the link below!

Read the Rewire Reflections 2025 music magazine 

María Mazzanti: “This year marked the second edition of Rewire Reflections, the writing workshop I led as part of Rewire festival’s 2025 context programme. Over the course of the weekend, a group of writers, artists, and curious listeners gathered to tune into the textures, rhythms, and atmospheres of the festival. Together, we navigated the challenges of writing in real time, while catching fleeting impressions and turning them into something tangible. The resulting zine holds a wide range of voices: from poetic fragments and personal meditations to analytical essays, interviews, and experimental texts. Some pieces linger on the body in relation to sound; others trace how performance spaces shape listening; others still grapple with how to remain present amid both sonic immersion and the noise of the world beyond the festival. Co-edited with Callum McLean and designed by a brilliant team of graphic designers, this publication is a snapshot of Rewire 2025 through the eyes and ears of its temporary chroniclers.”

Written by: Estelle Bolon, Kris Cooper & Martin Endersby, Fred Waine, Chuning Dai, Rugun Sirait, Anna Papastylou, Leonie Woodfin, Timna Bjažević, Eva Vanderstricht, Taliesin Herb, Aike Jansen, Jung Hoon Ra, Ania Drożdż, Anya Sarang
Designed by: Sasha Vitko, Dasha Glushkova, Peter Golub, Teun Hanselman, Puck Pruim
Edited by: María Mazzanti and Callum McLean

Photo by Baroeg Mulder