Context

Musicking Resistance — Conversation and Listening Session

with: Giada Dalla Bontà, Deena Abdelwahed, Andrius Arutiunian Page Not Found, Sunday 9 April, 13:45–14:45

Music is often celebrated for its edifying nature, able to uplift the listener morally and intellectually: “music can change the world.” Yet, this romanticized approach risks to inhibit the actual agency of sound. Together with artists performing at Rewire festival — Deena Abdelwahed and Andrius Arutiunian — Giada Dalla Bontà will discuss the ways in which sonic agency operates through affects and sonic fictions as well as physical bodies and matter. How can contemporary forms of resistance be auditory in a world dominated by visual culture? How do these qualities translate in the systems and infrastructures of musicmaking and listening, and what are their challenges? By taking into consideration how different technologies of sounding and spatio-temporal dimensions are interwoven within this constellation, this session will discuss current social and political issues and the role of sound in creating unexpected alliances and forms of collective and intimate resistance.

Sampling Stories — Conversation with:

Hannes Liechti (Norient),

ABADIR, and M I M I

The Grey Space in The Middle, Sunday 9 April, 15:15—16:15

Together with artists performing at Rewire, researcher and editor Hannes Liechti will discuss the culture and politics of musical sampling, focusing on the reasons and intentions behind the artists’ sampling processes. Why do artists sample? What are the reasons behind the selection of particular sampling material? What are the intentions behind strategies of sampling? Discussing these questions will reveal a complex net of contexts, meanings, and often deeply personal choices and creative decisions, while establishing connections across times and territories.

A conversation with Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective with: Stephan Crasneanscki (Soundwalk Collective) and Patti Smith

Nieuwe Kerk, Sunday 9 April, 15:00–16:00

Stephan Crasneanscki (Soundwalk Collective) and Patti Smith will enter into a conversation on listening to different times and territories and their long-term collaboration. At Rewire, they will present the world premiere of Correspondences, the result of an ongoing collaborative project and conversation between Soundwalk Collective and legendary artist, poet and performer Patti Smith, that has has spanned over 10 years and across multiple geographies, uncovering the sonic steps left by poets, film makers, revolutionaries and extraordinary events that have taken place in specific locations.

Ritual Time

with: Nwando Ebizie

The Grey Space in The Middle, Sunday 9 April, 16:30—17:15

An invitation for dreaming. A closing ritual that doesn’t close. A garden of circular paths. Nwando Ebizie invites you for a speculative ritual performance-lecture, a whispered work of sonic fiction inspired by Black Atlantic ritual cultures and mythical time. Take your time, get comfortable, and join Nwando in practicing/experiencing forms of ancestral listening and dreaming. To what could have been, and what should have been, and what may possibly be.

Ritual Time is inspired by Nwando’s immersive sensory environment Distorted Constellations and her debut album The Swan, which she will perform at Rewire on Saturday April 8 with her band. If you have any access needs or questions, please do speak to the hosts.

TIMEZONES — A Podcast between Anthropology, Audio Collage, and Journalism by Norient — listening station

The Grey Space in The Middle, Sunday 15:15—18:00

The TIMEZONES podcast series plunges into the world of artists and their practices, asking: what does living and working in culture and the arts involve in different countries, cities, and contexts today? The artists’ thoughts on their moods, their social, political, and intellectual realities and their philosophies of life have been worked up into experimental audio collages. The podcasts run the gamut of formats and content, from straight journalism to experimental and documentary approaches, ethnography and fiction, sound art and improvisation.

TIMEZONES is a project by Norient, co-initiated with the Goethe-Institut.

Radio WORM × Rewire

Rewire is collaborating with Radio WORM, who will be broadcasting live from The Grey Space, with interviews, live streams and conversations, reflecting and reporting over the course of the festival days.