Rewire Festival Programme 2016 by Rewire

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Festival Programme

Contents Introduction

Friday April 1

Essay The Cybernetic Now

Remixing Places

Saturday April 2

The Sound of Story

Sunday April 3

Musical Material #2

General Info

Locations

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Introduction Welcome to the sixth edition of Rewire, the international festival for adventurous music in The Hague. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s festival takes place between April 1st and April 3rd, with an extensive programme consisting of more than 75 (inter)national premieres, commissioned projects, artistic collaborations, live concerts, club nights, workshops, demonstrations and talks. A host of critically acclaimed artists present recent, or new works across ten stages and seven venues. Venues such as the historical Grote Kerk and Lutherse Kerk, pop venue Paard van Troje, as well as intimate spaces as Prins27, Barthkapel, Nutshuis and Humanity House. These diverse spaces form the backdrop for the most ambitious Rewire programme so far. Alongside the regular festival programme, we are presenting an education trajectory aimed at students in primary and secondary education. Aiming to introduce new and young audiences with contemporary music practice. With artists from around 20 countries and visitors from over 30 countries, Rewire provides a window to the world; reflecting the international bearing of the host city, The Hague.

During the last five years Rewire has focused on promoting cutting-edge music from all over the world. With five commissioned projects in 2016 we are developing our role as producer of new works and collaborations. On Friday April 1st we have invited Kara-Lis Coverdale to perform a new piece for organ and diverse electronica, a piece made specifically for the organ of the Lutherse Kerk. Visual artist Marcel Weber a.k.a. MFO will incorporate live visuals as part of the commission. On that day, another special project takes place: the Stargaze ensemble has been commissioned to perform Mica Levi's soundtrack of cult film, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Under The Skinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Rewire also invited the British electronic music innovator James Holden and the Moroccan gwana group Maalem Houssam Guinia, to perform a one-off live performance, which promises to be an intriguing mix of traditional gnawa and electronica. On Saturday April 2nd, Rewire presents the collaboration between two Dutch musicians; sound-artist and composer Michel Banabila and violin player Oene van Geel. They will perform the new improvisational piece Music for Viola and Electronics III.

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The final commission is a rather special one as it was initiated at Rewire 2012. Pete Swanson and Black Rain met during the second edition of our festival which led to an idea to collaborate. Later in the creative process another Rewire "alumnus", Vessel, joined the project. And now we are able to present all three artists for a “once in a lifetime” performance at Rewire 2016. One of the most remarkable focus points of this year’s programme is the exploration of music and sound in relation to film. The haunting soundtrack of ‘Under The Skin’ by Mica Levi, performed by the Stargaze orchestra will open the festival on Friday, whereas Xiu Xiu's experimental interpretation of the iconic ‘Twin Peaks’ soundtrack will close the festival on Sunday. The extensive ‘The Sound of Story’ programme, developed in cooperation with British production house Lighthouse, offers an exploration of sound and music in storytelling. Made up of a series of talks, illustrated with clips and anecdotes, this is a chance for film and music lovers to hear about the speakers’ work and influences, and learn about the power of the soundtrack and importance of narrative. Electronic duo Lakker will present the world premiere of ‘Struggle & Emerge’, an audiovisual project that incorporates curated archival television broadcast materials provided by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. The bulk of the visual material comes from the famed Dutch Polygoon-Profilti which ran from 1919-1987.

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This year’s Rewire club programme devotes special attention for "cybernetic" club music; a term coined by musicologist Adam Harper. This concerns underground club music often distributed through the internet, uncategorizable into any genre but distinguished by its otherworldly sound palette. This programme consists of a club night, a panel discussion and an essay by Adam Harper (see page 8 of this booklet). Emerging artists such as Amnesia Scanner, Ash Koosha, Total Freedom and Jlin and will be introduced by an obscure tape piece by modernist composer Olivier Messiaen, realised by musique concrète pioneer Pierre Henry in 1952: ‘Timbres-durées’. It reveals an interesting resemblance between the pioneering electroacoustic music from the 1950s and the sounds of hyper-futuristic music of 2016. With a programme reflecting on the constant stream of developments in the contemporary and electronic music, we are challenging the festival visitor and the artists to explore new sonic territories all the time. We welcome you to immerse yourself in three days of daring music, interesting discussions and talks, exciting club nights and insightful workshops. The projects discussed above are just a few of the highlights Rewire 2016 has to offer. This booklet helps you to discover the entire programme. We have tried to be as complete as possible, but for last minute updates please refer to our website. We wish you a very inspiring stay at our festival.

Friday April 1

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Friday April 1

The Cybernetic Now Essay by Adam Harper

We have always been cybernetic, but it is as obvious as ever now. Humanity has always been fused with and physically reliant on the non-human: stone, metal, paper, glass, wire and plastic. Homo Sapiens’s first steps were in the relinquishing of its biological autonomy to transcendence through materials, from claws of stone to sparks that set the world ablaze. So no, humanity has never been alone and authentic to itself; still less can it get back to such a prelapsarian state, before the Apple. Today the synthesis of muscle with discrete tools and mechanisms is disappearing in the rear view mirror. There’s a new nexus at hand, and a flicker of the eyeballs and fingertips at the keys is not only all it takes to enter a new Eden fronted by LCD, enhanced with avatars and algorithms and backed up by drones, street armies and enormous manufacturing plants, it’s practically compulsory for everyday life in the West. And how does it feel?

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If you’re not yet sure, music can show you, especially music that moves your viscera and jams your sensorium: club music. In a text set to music by Amnesia Scanner for their release ANGELS RIG HOOK, Jaakko Pallasvuo imagines the garden of Eden as an abandoned oil rig, and gardens containing ‘encrypted knowledge of good and evil.’ The latter makes for a powerful image of cybernetic club music and electronica: controlled spaces in which experiments with the non-human and post-human have not yet reached full absolution and clarity. The music is suspended somewhere between good and evil, between utopia and dystopia; it eschews simplicity as a lie, rejecting both the fleshy posturing of rock and the worship of old rave alike as too straight in groove and message. Since the real authenticity is inauthenticity, the music’s codes are ensconced within codes and codes, beyond and hidden from the all-too-human, all of it scrambled in the digital sublime.

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Yet this cybernetic sublime predates digital technologies themselves. It is eerily opened up in a hitherto obscure work by modernist composer Olivier Messiaen, realised by musique concrète pioneer Pierre Henry in 1952: Timbres-durées. Messiaen wanted to erase everything but rhythm in this work, even ‘musical sounds.’ What he did in the process was erase traditional humanity, which, for musique concrète and other schools of aesthetics in post-war electronic music, was really neither here nor there. For these composers, their work was about sound itself, not sound as story. And yet it’s not difficult for twenty-first-century ears and brains to hear a work like Timbres-durées as a dramatisation of a harsh new technologically engendered modernity, even now, and not least because it bears a strange resemblance to recent sounds by Amnesia Scanner, Total Freedom, Rabit, Lotic, Arca, even Jlin. It has the same repetitiousness, the same broken up grooves, the same starkly minimalist texture, even the same stricken metal.

As analogue as it gets Timbres-durées is a work painstakingly assembled from recorded and transformed sounds at a reel-to-reel tape machine using several paper scores and hundreds of loops of plastic coated in ferric oxide. Fast forward sixty years and it can all happen inside microprocessors, and devices that most Westerners have anyway. Enter Amnesia Scanner, an anonymous Berlin-based duo whose frenetic electronics had secured them a place in clubs long before any analogue releases saw the light of day. Their music leaps hungrily from its natural environment, a virtual world of sonic tool combination (visualised in the video for ‘AS CHINGY’), as if wanting to feast on your wetware. Samples are not just repurposed, reformed, remodulated - they now speak the cryptic new languages of machine-being to machine-being, whether assigned human at birth or not. However we understand them the ‘good’ or ‘evil’ in their messages - these languages don’t just end in sound, but tell stories of machine-mediated experience. With its text and disembodied actors, ANGELS RIG HOOK is more than sound, more perhaps even than music, being an audioplay and a study of obfuscation among a collage of technocapitalist-spiritual slogans: ‘ANGELS RIG HOOK’ is an anagram of ‘GOOGLE KRISHNA.’

More blasphemous still are the outrageous combinations of Ashland Minds, whose moniker, TOTAL FREEDOM, neatly expresses the sublime vertigo of a freshly empowered cyborg. The creativity of his DJing - in which pop collides with horrific sound effects and angular club structures - is matched only by its ruthless effectiveness, and it’s a formidable accomplishment. His own productions are cut from the same cloth, sitting on Soundcloud like demonic chimeras of pop. While the content of Total Freedom’s output can vary greatly from Amnesia Scanner’s, the texture and affect are similar - both are sculpted by and adapted to the technological enhancements of now, and as such both are an echo of Messiaen’s metalscape.

The violence of modernity and the harsh sounds that accompany have often flirted with fascism, most famously in Italian futurism, EBM and industrial music. Yet in the garden of encrypted good and evil, it also becomes a vital tool for minority struggle and expression. Feminists like Donna Haraway, in her ‘Cyborg Manifesto’ have embraced technological post-humanism as a form of resistance and empowerment, while the afrofuturist cultural movement has explored the subjectivity of cyborgs, robots and aliens as a metaphor for African and Afro-diasporic experience. It’s no wonder that the music of Mykki Blanco, whose track ‘BOOTY BAMBOO’ was produced by Amnesia Scanner, so often sounds cybernetic. It is the framework through which queer identity is performed for rapper and listener alike. The compilation Mykki curated on her new label Dogfood, C-ORE, celebrates experimental African-American artists, their difference and their punk aggression.

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The same is true of Jlin’s music. Footwork’s tangle of frenzied bodies and rapidfire machinery is nothing if not cybernetic, and yet something subtle in Jerrilynn Patton’s own spin on the Chicago style does so much more than dramatise a post-human vision. It would be wrong simply to say that she manages to ‘humanise’ the machinery, because the machinery has always been human and vice versa. And ‘humanisation’ is not necessarily desirable - too often it is a reactionary and limiting impulse, the kneejerk of a threatened majority. Perhaps it is just that her music demonstrates that we are all machines - machines with capacities for excitement, with tensions and desires that can resonate even across the spectrum of embodiment - especially when moving to music.

Panel Discussion: The Cybernetic Now With Adam Harper

In letting us explore something beyond ourselves, music has always been cybernetic: an empowerment, a transcendence. Even for only for a moment, it is something grafted onto the listener’s body and brain that expands the domain of one particular human and of humanity in general. Or rather, it shows that the human’s domain is always broad, multifariously expressive, and adaptive, whether communing across its hi-tech horizons or shaking its ass.

Adam Harper is a music theorist, critic, and the author of the book 'Infinite Music. Imagining the Next Millennium of Human Music-Making' (Zero Books, 2012), in which he speculates on how music may sound, and what forms it may take, in the future. A PhD student in musicology, Harper lectures and teaches at the University of Oxford, writes regularly for The Wire and Dummy, blogs on Rouge’s Foam, and gives interdisciplinary lectures and seminars at venues such as the Darmstadt Summer Courses in New Music and All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival, and on The Guardian’s 'Music Weekly' podcast series.

The Cybernetic Now

21:00 – 22:00 · Nutshuis

But cyberneticism comes in many moods and forms. On his recent album GUUD, Ash Koosha’s own variant is more lithe, more fine-grained, more neurodynamic: complexity itself. Ashkan Kooshanejad’s music seems to have evolved beyond a body of skin, beyond even a body of metal and plastic, into a being of pure energy, one that oscillates between potential and kinetic. It is the sound of a human brain uploaded to the cosmos and musing on the laws of physics. The wires and digital pulses of which it is made are nearly transparent, nearly without resistance, and so the breadth of this digital power becomes a new organics that brings with it new types of emotion.

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Panel Discussion 19:00 – 20:15 Nutshuis

Contemporary tracks mix samples of sounds and music from local, regional and global contexts. These samples become published on online platforms like SoundCloud, promoted via social networks, replayed in concerts and DJ-sets—settings in which they receive new attributions. Simon Reynolds describes contemporary tracks as mixtures of "time-travel" and "seance", Kodwo Eshun speaks of "sonic fictions", and Josh Kun of "audiotopia". To discuss these settings systematically — and not only partial aspects of it (i.e. history of remix, copyright, practice in rap) — offers a fascinating field of thoughts and debates. It observes inter-relations between musical and non-musical levels and highlights discourses and controversies that are at play — when a track for example remixes sounds from a specific war, or from other cultural contexts. The approach leads into ethnomusicologist Veit Erlmann’s twenty-year-old suggestion to analyze the ways in which histories of cultural, social, or political contexts "are inscribed into music." (Erlmann 1995).

At Rewire festival, Thomas Burkhalter from Norient – Network for Local and Global Sounds and Media Culture - discusses various remix strategies with artists Mikael Seifu and Yannis Kyriakides. The audio-visual panel offers insights into these artists’ work, and it presents and discusses media material from past and present. The panel is part of the Norient Book Launch tour 'Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World'. Introduction 15 minutes Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) A/V Panel Debate 60 minutes With: Mikael Seifu Remixing Sounds and Music from Ethiopia Yannis Kyriakides & Andy Moor Manipulating Greek Sources Thomas Burkhalter Moderation

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How Contexts are inscribed into Music Is the Trap of Exoticism Really Gone?

Thomas Burkhalter

The BOOK

Dr. Thomas Burkhalter is an ethnomusicologist, music journalist and cultural producer from Bern, Switzerland. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Norient.com. He is working as a research associate and project leader at the Academy of Arts Berne and the University of Basel (Seminary of Cultural Studies and European Ethnology).

"Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World" introduces you to a contemporary world of distinct music, sounds and music videos. Scholars, journalists, bloggers and musicians from Bolivia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Switzerland and forty six other countries discuss artistic expressions that may not make big headlines yet, but anticipate major changes to come. Produced in small studios from Jakarta to La Paz, Cape Town to Helsinki, these works experiment with the new possibilities of the Internet age and illuminate new spaces beyond the confines of commercialism, propaganda, and bigotry. They foresee a changing geography of multi-layered modernities, far beyond old ideas of North versus South, West versus East. Discover this through a collage of articles, quotations, photographs and lyrics. Theresa Beyer, Thomas Burkhalter, Hannes Liechti (Editors).

NORIENT Norient searches for new music, sounds and noises from around the planet. Norient discusses current issues critically, from different perspectives, close to musicians and their networks. Through the Norient Online Magazine, the Norient Musikfilm Festival, performances, books, documentary films, travelling exhibitions and radio programmes, Norient hopes to orient and disorient readers, listeners and spectators. Find out about strong, fragile and challenging artistic positions in today’s fast moving, globalized, digitized and urbanized world. http://norient.com/

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Ash Koosha Tehran-born and London-based, Ash Koosha creates music that is stripped of genre, style and conventional structure. His training in classical music and his early interest in computer music has equipped him with the necessary tools to construct, break, form and deform music at the same time. The result is sound that is fragmented, unearthly yet natural, collage-like yet seamless. His latest work, 'GUUD' is a sonic experience, where classical variations and harmonies meet manipulated sample grains. Rewire 2016 will see the world premiere of a new live-set by Ash Koosha. In this live-set, he will perform while wearing an Oculus-Rift virtual reality system. Everything he sees in this virtual reality will be projected on a screen.

Brokenchord is a moniker of electronic music producer and composer Ernestas Kausylas. Originally from Lithuania, he currently resides in The Hague, studying at the Institute Of Sonology. Discovered by Mary Anne Hobbs, he was picked up by Bristol based Black Acre Records. He received international acclaim for the official remix of Radiohead’s ‘Give Up The Ghost’ and charted on the band’s Dead Air Space blog. Brokenchord often plays live with drummer Augustas Baronas. Together they combine influences of krautrock, post-rock and club music into a hectic wall of sound.

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21:15 – 22:00 · Prins 27 Foyer

Brokenchord

22:30 – 23:30 · Paard II

Despite an ever-growing fan base, little is known about the mysterious Amnesia Scanner. Amnesia Scanner creates futuristic club music that crosses musical boundaries. Their debut release ‘AS LIVE [][][][][]’ blends fresh, rapidly changing rhythm patterns with dramatic outbursts of mangled samples. In Amnesia Scanner’s music energetic kicks and deep bass drums jolt your body into dancing action, but the rhythms are rarely "normal" enough to really let you go with the flow.

02:30 – 03:15 · Paard II

Amnesia Scanner

Introduction & Live Installation In 'The Sound of Sanctuary', Chris Watson recreates the sounds and atmosphere of sunrise in northern Madagascar’s Amber Mountain rainforest. Experienced within the beautiful acoustics of the 17th Century Lutherse Kerk, this reflective soundscape will transport the audience to one of the most remarkable environments on earth, inhabited by more than a hundred species of birds, mammals and reptiles.

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The Austrian-born percussionist Gerri Jäger has been around for a while. After graduating from the Amsterdam Conservatory he became part of many diverse groups, ranging from free-improvisation, alt-rock, experimental electronic club music and avant-pop. Current working bands include Knalpot, Knalpot Dub, Naked Wolf and Rooie Waas. His solo-performance is based around semi-structured improvisations, using drums, percussion, electronics, casio keyboard and synthesizers. Gerri uses his drum set to trigger analogue synthesizers and manipulates it by wiring it onto a bunch of effect pedals originally made for guitar players. Knalpot’s sound man Sandor Caron sound designs Gerri’s new solo-set.

Glice Amsterdam based duo Glice consists of Ruben Braeken (Apneu, Katadreuffe) and Melle Kromhout. Their latest self-released record, LIX (2015), revolves around their cosmic noise experiments. Dense, post-industrial soundscapes are contrasted with sharp electronic signals and samples, making their work a turbulent sonic ride: a soundtrack for non-existent science fiction disaster movies.

22:15 - 22:45 · Prins27 Foyer

Chris Watson is a composer and one of the world’s leading natural world sound recordists, whose award-winning work across film, TV and radio has featured in renowned productions such as the BBC’s 'Life of Birds' and 'Frozen Planet' – both presented by David Attenborough. His compositional work includes the acclaimed albums 'El Tren Fantasma' – recollections of a trans-Mexico rail journey – and 'Weather Report', named as one of the albums you should hear before you die (The Guardian).

23:00 – 00:00 · Lutherse Kerk

Chris Watson

Gerri Jäger

23:30 – 00:00 · Prins27 Foyer

Berlin-based Cocktail Party Effect has previously released on R&S’s sublabel Apollo Records under the moniker Kasket. Cocktail Party Effect provides raw modular made and DIY-minded techno, combining distinctive drums with abstract outspoken synths. His live performance will bring the intuitive modular machine to The Hague’s dancefloor. His debut EP is to be released in 2016 on Dutch imprint Fog Mountain Records.

00:45 – 01:15 · Prins27 Foyer

Cocktail Party Effect

Rewire initiated a one-off collaboration between James Holden and Maalem Houssam Guinia: an intriguing combination of traditional and futuristic music. In 2014, James Holden left (together with Floating Points) towards Marrakesh, to become part of a residency with Maalem Mahmoud Guinia. This co-op has been recorded and released as their EP Marhaba. Last year the late Maalem Mahmoud Guinia passed away and his son, Maalem Houssam Guinia, took over; upholding the rich African Gnawa-tradition. This collaborative performance is commissioned by Rewire.

Jlin Jerilynn Patton (US) is one of the most prominent female footwork producers of the current generation, pushing the genre forward and ‘moving the genre beyond the dancefloor’. Her critically hailed 2015 debut album, 'Dark Energy', combines feverish rhythms with mangled vocal snippets. The music sounds forceful, yet ripples with colour; an intense, solid sound with rugged rhythms that stop and breathe and roll out in unusual staccato patterns.

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23:30 – 00:30 · Paard II

J(ay).A.D is an up-and-coming Dutch/ Surinamese producer, born in Paramaribo and currently living in Amsterdam. He has steadily released material trough labels like Liquorish Dubz, Groundmass Music and Goodstreet Records. His distinct combination of Footwork with Surinamese Kawina, Dancehall, Dub and Grime gave him international recognition, with Björk calling it music which inspired her to make her latest record, 'Vulnicura'.

03:15 – 04:15 · Paard II

J(ay).A.D

James Holden & Maalem Houssam Guinia

00:15 – 01:15 · Paard I

Gwyneth Wentink, Wouter Snoei and Arnout Hulskamp present 'In Code', an audiovisual performance of Terry Riley’s 'In C' for harp, electronics and visuals. Terry Riley’s groundbreaking composition 'In C', written on a bus trip to San Fransisco in 1964, changed the music scene. Although labeled as ‘minimal music’, Riley’s music doesn’t let itself be tagged. Most renditions of this mysterious piece run somewhere between 45 or 90 minutes. Originally written for 35 musicians, 'In Code' investigates the coherence of sound and visuals, creating an orchestra of enthralling audible and visual textures.

00:00 – 00:45 · Prins27 Theater

In Code [Wentink, Snoei, Hulskamp]

James Holden

Floating, lightly weighted music that beautifully combines clear melodic pulses with soothing rhythmic patterns. American musician Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith creates colourful, harmonic works inspired by early electronic music pioneers like Suzanne Ciani, Laurie Spiegel and Terry Riley. Her solo debut album, 'Euclid' (2015), explored some of the main sonic features found in Smith’s work: geometric shapes, playful sonic puzzles and warm synthetic sounds.

Friday April 1

21:15 – 21:45 · Lutherse Kerk

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Royal Conservatoire, The Hague presents KHZ kollektiv KHZ kollektiv is the electronic ensemble of the composition faculty of the Royal Conservatoire, a loose group of about 6-12 students run by Yannis Kyriakides, meeting in the Karlheinz Stockhausen Studio every week. The group explores the performance and composition possibilities of historic electronic instruments and their modern counterparts. The ensemble has been active since 2013. For this special Rewire-edition the kollektiv exists of Andrius Arutiunian, Eirik Brandal, Yael Levy, Yvonne Freckmann, Nikos Kokolakis, Lam Lai, Maari Mako and Yannis Kyriakides. They will be performing with video scores by Yael Levi, Andrius Arutiunian, Lam Lai, Justin Bennet and Yannis Kyriakides.

21:15 -22:15 · Barthkapel

Kara-lis Coverdale is a classically trained keyboardist who studied composition and musicology. She is known for blurring the lines between acoustic and electronic instrumentation and has collaborated with LXV and most notably Tim Hecker, on his latest album 'Virgins'. Her 2015 album, 'Aftertouches', explores and celebrates the multiple voices of the machine. Synthetic sounds intertwine with vocal harmonies and organic soundscapes to create a series of ‘celestial modern classical miniatures’. The Guardian mentioned Kara-lis Coverdale’s performance during Montreal’s Mutek as the "absolute festival highlight".

22:00 -22:45 · Lutherse Kerk

Kara-Lis Coverdale

Mica Levi & Stargaze present Under The Skin

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The live performance of this soundtrack is commissioned by Rewire, and is a European premiere.

Friday April 1

Mikael Seifu is an Ethiopian electronic music producer committed to “Ethiopiyawi Electronic” – a coinage Seifu uses to describe the music he and his peers are producing in Ethiopia’s capital city of Addis Ababa. His novel approach to music sounds like a seamless blend of Ethiopian music with the rhythms and sonic qualities from a wide range of electronic styles – from house to garage and beyond. Seifu uses EthioJazz’s tradition of mashing up different styles; adding his own unique musical interpretation along the way. His performance offers a shuffled mix of percussion, vocal fragments and keys: made to move bodies and bend minds.

Mykki Blanco Mykki Blanco is an American writer, activist and international performing artist. As a gender-bending "Riot grrrl" rapper she is known for her extravagant and frenetic shows. She worked with some of the most innovative electronic producers in rap, including Gobby, Brenmar and Matrixxman. Blanco’s live performances aren’t just portrayals of an everyday person but an event: art happening. In January of 2015 Mykki partnered with !K7 to create her own imprint DOGFOOD Music Group, a label that aims to give voice to underground artists that share her vision and “transcend conventional cultural boundaries / constructs.” Mykki is currently working on her solo album.

00:30 – 01:15 · Paard II

Mica Levi won a European Film Award for the 'Under The Skin', which was described by the Guardian as “a score that brings together strings, percussion, distortions in speed and clashing microphones to create sounds that are seductive, perverted and compassionate”.

Mikael Seifu

01:15 – 02:15 · Paard I

Mica Levi is a British composer and musician, known from experimental pop group Micachu & The Shapes. Levi wrote the critically acclaimed soundtrack for cult film 'Under The Skin', which starred Scarlett Johansson. This haunting soundtrack will now be performed live in its entirety for the first time in Europe, by the German Stargaze ensemble. Rewire is delighted to present this special project at a very special venue: the monumental Grote Kerk in the city centre of The Hague.

20:30 – 21:15 · Grote Kerk

Mica Levi & Stargaze present Under The Skin

Canadian Pierre Alexandre Tremblay is an adaptive electroacoustic music composer. At Rewire, he will present a suite of his latest works for soloist and live electronics. It will feature Heather Roche on bass clarinet, Peyee Chen as soprano and Tremblay himself on the bass and electronics. All the pieces of this suite explore – in sound and on stage – the relationship between the live presence of the performer, and its counterpart, the static loudspeaker. With influences from noise, avant-rock, post-free-jazz, chamber music, and electroacoustics, Tremblay continuously plays with the expectations of the listener: from simplicity to complexity, from peaceful calmness to chaotic distortion, from consonance to dissonance and from abstract grooves to concrete sounds.

Total Freedom Ashland Mines, better known as Total Freedom, draws dancers into a whirlwind of ever-evolving textures and sensations. Unafraid to assault listeners with harsh shifts in mood and tempo, in his hands, R&B-concrète collides with rap, grime and ballroom house, while sung vocals abruptly dissolve into swamps of syrupy, druggedout noise. As part of the renowned Fade To Mind, Mines has acquired a deserved reputation as a formidable DJ, with his sets taking dramatic arcs through extremes of emotional impact.

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01:15 – 02:30 · Paard II

Peverelist is a driving force in modern Bristolian electronic music. Coinciding with seismic shifts in the broader UK music scene, and during his decade managing the crucial Rooted Records store, Peverelist curated a new label, Punch Drunk Records in 2006. After releasing his own, critically acclaimed, debut 12” singles, his style radically informed the zeitgeist of the second generation UK dubstep sound and he began to carve out his own niche, in his own inimitable style. Eventually, Peverelist refocused his efforts and formed the Livity Sound label. The label released a series of 12” vinyl only releases, both solo and collaborative efforts, to critical acclaim.

02:15 – 03:30 · Paard I

Peverelist

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay

21:30 – 22:15 · Prins27 Theater

During the year 1952, the French composer Olivier Messiaen – one of the leading composers of the 20th century – wrote his one and only electro-acoustic work. He wrote 'Timbres-Dureés' in cooperation with Pierre Henry, who was by then a pupil of both Messiaen and musique-concrete pioneer Pierre Schaeffer. Messiaen used concrete sounds from daily life, especially water flowing from the tap. Although Messiaen himself was dissatisfied with the end result and withdrew the work officially from his catalog, there’s enough reason to perform it: 'Timbres-Durées' was and is far ahead of its time. It appears at the time of epic collage (a theme which is very prominent in this year’s Rewire edition) to be a precursor for today’s movement. The venue will be darkened, as they used to do back when 'Timbre-Durées' was composed. Copyright by Ina GRM.

22:15 – 22:30 · Paard II

Olivier Messiaen / Pierre Henry Timbres-durées

Yannis Kyriakides (electronics) and Andy Moor’s (guitar) fruitful collaboration has resulted in multiple acclaimed records; most notably their releases 'Rebetika' (2010) and 'A Life is a Billion Heartbeats' (2014). The musicians explore and mine the rich and mysterious terrain of Greek rebetika, which serves as a matrix or palette onto which they improvise using electric guitar, live sampling and electronics. This results in hypnotic, improvised pieces that try to capture a sense of the gesture and tonalities of the Greek source music.

22:45 – 23:30 · Prins27 Theater

Yannis Kyriakides & Andy Moor

Mykki Blanco

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The Sound of Story

13:00 – 18:00 Humanity House

Featuring critically acclaimed artists from the Rewire programme and beyond, The Sound of Story is a rare opportunity to gain insight into what drives and inspires some of the world’s most accomplished and innovative sound artists and musicians. Made up of a series of talks, illustrated with clips and anecdotes, this is a chance for film and music lovers to hear about the speakers’ work and influences, and learn about the power of the soundtrack and importance of narrative. The Sound of Story @ Rewire is co-produced by Lighthouse and Rewire Festival.

Roly Porter & MFO

Chris Watson

As electronic music producer, Roly Porter’s solo albums include the boundary pushing 'Life Cycle of a Massive Star'. He has also composed for film, and produced a live re-scoring of the animated film 'Gandahar' for the BFI. Following the release of his 2016 album, 'Third Law', Porter has teamed up again with renowned visual artist Marcel Weber (MFO), whose audio-visual works have been shown at leading festivals and venues, including Transmediale, the Centre Pompidou and Unsound.

Talk Porter and MFO will discuss the influence of narrative on their work, a symbiotic artistic approach, and creating a live show that takes audiences on a journey through seemingly infinite realms.

Talk Watson will present and discuss his work and recording techniques, looking at the process of capturing sound and weaving it into narrative collages.

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An exploration of sound and music in storytelling Xiu Xiu plays Twin Peaks Commissioned by David Lynch to reimagine the seminal 'Twin Peaks' score, for an exhibition presented by the Gallery of Modern Art Australia, experimental band Xiu Xiu have a history of reinterpreting music and imbuing it with their own style, including work by Nina Simone and Tracy Chapman. Talk This is a rare opportunity to hear the band discuss their creative approach to reinterpretation, and the influences that helped shape their version of a truly iconic soundtrack.

Nicolas Becker Gazelle Twin: Kingdom Come Taking its title from J.G. Ballard’s final novel, 'Gazelle Twin: Kingdom Come' is an ensemble performance incorporating electronics, film and an original soundtrack from the critically acclaimed Gazelle Twin. Commissioned by 'FutureEverything' and produced in collaboration with director Chris Turner and photographer Tash Tung, the work plays with notions of feralness and the uncanny. Talk Ahead of the Rewire performance, hear Jez Bernholz (BERNHOLZ), who has performed live with Gazelle Twin since 2013, discuss the genesis and development of this high-concept and visceral live show.

The Sound of Story

One of the most progressive sound practitioners working today, Nicolas Becker works across multiple art forms, combining his practice as foley artist, sound designer and composer. Working with filmmakers such as Danny Boyle and Roman Polanski, his movie credits include 'Gravity' and 'Ex Machina'. Beyond cinema, Becker’s work includes several collaborations with acclaimed artist Philippe Parreno, including for the Opera Garnier in Paris with Benjamin Millepieds and Nico Muhly, and a new exhibition in New York centred around microorganisms. Talk Becker will discuss his multi-disciplinary approach to creating a unique production process and soundscape for each project.

Anna Meredith London-based composer, producer and performer Anna Meredith came to prominence as a classical composer before branching out into electronica. Her sound is frequently described as "maximalist", "uncategorisable" and "genre-hopping". She explores the different worlds of contemporary classical, avant-pop, electronica and experimental rock with her ecstatic, spirited music. 'Varmints', her debut-album, was released in March 2016 through Moshi Moshi/PIAS. Meredith will perform with her band of classical musicians and a line up of Anna on clarinet and electronics plus two cellists, electric guitar, tuba and drums.

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20:00 – 20:45 Paard II

Animal Collective is an experimental popgroup from Baltimore, US. Their music is often described as freak folk but it is hard to define the Animal Collective sound, as they often experiment with diverse styles and ideas from album to album. The group’s newest album 'Painting With' – the follow-up to 2012’s 'Centipede Hz' – has just been released via Domino. The album was recorded by Panda Bear, Avey Tare, and Geologist at EastWest Studios in Los Angeles. It features contributions from John Cale, as well as Colin Stetson. The collective’s work bounces and pops with an urgent and ecstatic energy, propelled by gurgling modular synths and polyrhythmic beats. Animal Collective is Technicolor 21st Century Pop Music.

21:00 – 22:30 · Paard I

Animal Collective

Saturday April 2

Animal Collective

Babyfather, Dean Blunt’s new moniker, explores the London-based art-pop provocateur’s typical, odd methodology once again. Summer 2015, Hyperdub surprisingly released an unannounced first 'Babyfather' EP. Blunt’s characteristic voice – combined with static chopped samples and lo-fi rhythmic textures – forms the firm basis for this new grimy project. Future developments are happening as we speak, since renowned producer Arca has been working on Babyfather’s next release. Their show during Rewire 2016 will be a Rewire exclusive.

Battles is an American Experimental Rock group consisting of John Stanier (of Helmet and Tomahawk), Dave Konopka (of Lynx) and Ian Williams (of Don Caballero and Storm & Stress). They have been anything but a conventional band. As result of its constant forward momentum – musically and conceptually – Battles’ albums have placed the band amongst the most innovative of Warp Records’ roster. Their latest and most future-leaning album yet, 'La Di Da Di', was released by Warp Records in autumn 2015.

22:30 – 23:15 Paard II

Babyfather

Battles

23:00 – 00:00 Paard I

London’s Beatrice Dillon is an ambient producer, composer and NTS radio DJ with a string of acclaimed mixes for Trilogy Tapes, Blowing Up The Workshop, Truants plus collaborations with visual artists and performances at Lisson Gallery, ICA, Palais de Tokyo Paris and Southbank Centre to her credit. There’s no obvious entry point to the works of Beatrice Dillon. Between dubby cassette releases, folk compilations, eclectic mixes, and filmic compositions, it’s never clear where tracing her efforts is likely to lead you.

00:00 – 00:45 Paard II

Beatrice Dillon

Battles

The Hague – based musician Jimi Hellinga plays many different instruments ranging from medieval bagpipes and hurdy gurdy to synthesizers. Medieval, folk and modern dance music are very similar: a driving beat and bass drone sound. It can be pulsating and hypnotic. During the day Jimi works as a studio assistant at the mysterious North Sea Institute For The Overmind, programming synthesizers and playing harmonium all day long. Expect to hear electro, acid and medieval melodies.

22:45 – 23:30 · Prins27 Foyer

Elektrovolt

Gazelle Twin: Kingdom Come Making its debut in The Netherlands and only performed for the second time, British artist Gazelle Twin presents Kingdom Come, a new audio visual performance in collaboration with Chris Turner and Tash Tung. 'Kingdom Come' is a conceptual performance for two vocalists staged in six chapters, incorporating electronics, film, and a brand new soundtrack from Gazelle Twin, created from samples and live vocal manipulation. With the piece set on treadmills against a manic, illusory landscape, Kingdom Come places heightening physical demands on the performers, resulting in an exhausting, otherworldly climax. Taking its title from J.G. Ballard’s final novel, 'Kingdom Come' will play with notions of feralness, displacement and the uncanny in the contemporary British, urban landscape. The show is produced by FutureEverything festival. After the premiere in Manchester the second show will be presented at Rewire.

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21:15 – 22:00 · Paard II

Ben UFO is one of the few DJ’s in the UK to make a name for himself solely as a DJ, without entering the world of production. As one of the co-founders of Hessle Audio, he has been responsible, alongside Pearson Sound and Pangaea, for some of the most varied and ground breaking releases of recent years. As a DJ, he explores sounds both old and new, across the worlds of house and garage, dubstep and grime, and further into the past. Ben UFO is known for his ability to successfully present unfamiliar, experimental dance music to a diverse variety of audiences worldwide.

03:00 – 05:00 · Paard II

Ben UFO

Factory Floor is a band from London, UK. They have been described as "post-punk" and "industrial", using live drums, synthesizers and noise. Their work has been released by DFA since 2012. Their analogue set-up and improvised roots prove that a major aspect of the band’s rise to notoriety is their versatility: music that often results in a repetitious song that seems to last forever. Factory Floor’s upcoming album is set to be released on DFA in summer 2016.

01:00 – 02:00 · Paard I

Factory Floor

Gebben – better known as Gerben Louw – runs Wichelroede, a website that publishes a vast array of new electronic music. Together with Fallon he distributes music and related cultural items through their renowned Wichelroede-Shop. With a versatile taste in music, Gebben is always searching for new sounds to incorporate in his surprising and varied DJ sets. Gerben is also closely associated and involved with Creme Organization, home for artists such as Legowelt, and Orgue Electronique.

Saturday April 2

23:15 – 00:00 · Paard II

Gebben

Norwegian avant-jazz talent Hilde Marie Holsen is known as an adventurous young trumpet and electronics improviser. Her latest solo debut release, 'Ask' (2015), has received critical appraisal, with the Guardian calling it "utterly wondrous". Improvised soundscapes with real time processed horn is the core of Hilde Marie Holsen’s exploration of the interaction between trumpet and electronics, with the horn ‘emerging out of twitching static, as if picked up by a radio’. The music can be described as melancholic, but with melody in focus, room for noise, great dynamics and plenty of drama. Holsen's trumpet playing heralds something new; and is a promising development in the electronic field.

22:00 – 22:30 · Lutherse Kerk

Hilde Marie Holsen

In this workshop Kacper Ziemianin will introduce the participants to the basics of working with Arduino / Genuino micro controller, interfacing it with a computer software in order to generate, control and manipulate sound. We will use open source hardware and software (Arduino/pure data) to create a simple sound control patch using buttons, switches, potentiometers and sensors. At the end of the workshop we will present the results as a group performance. Note All participants of the Arduino workshop are required to bring a laptop with installed Arduino IDE and PureData, both of which are available for Windws and Mac computers and are free.

Talk Lakker on Struggle & Emerge Presented by Ableton, the performance Lakker's Struggle & Emerge A/V performance will be preceded by a discussion with Lakker and RE:VIVE founder Gregory Markus. The discussion will go into detail about how the concept came to fruition and how Lakker manipulated the historic material into a cohese emotional and sonic narrative.

Lena Willikens

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19:00 – 20:00 · Nutshuis

“Instant Teleportation Process Detected While In Progress” (ITPDWIP) is a Heinz Kammler project, and made it’s first appearance in mid 2015 with 'Mne Ne Bolno', via the Warsaw based imprint, Get The Balance Right! His "Drexciyan" aesthetic and uniquely funky grooves made him perform with names such as I-F, Helena Hauff and Kassem Mosse. Heinz Kammler is also the man behind the projects: Soviet Space Research Institute (SSRI) and Tvarj Cna as well as the head for Remote Influence, a Thessaloniki- based label with promising so far sound.

21:30 – 22:00 · Prins27 Foyer

ITPDWIP

Introduction to Arduino/Genuino micro controller as sound control interface by Kacper Ziemianin

13:00 – 17:00 · Prins27 Foyer

Synthesizer musician and composter Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, who also plays the festival on Friday will present a masterclass on her Buchla Modular synthesizer. During the masterclass, Smith will present a hands-on demonstration of Buchla synthesis composition. She will perform a breakdown of a few songs and talk through her process followed by answering questions of the audience.

17:00 – 18:00 · Nutshuis First Floor

Introduction + Q&A to Buchla synthesis composition by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Saturday April 2

Lussuria is an ambient industrial project formed by Jim Mroz. His first full length record, 2014’s 'Industriale Illuminato', is heavily influenced by cinema; with atmospheric sounds that refer to pulp horror and claustrophobic crime scenes. Lussuria’s musical atmosphere is created through a combination of sound collage, sampled loops, and deconstructed musical sections. His work has been recognized as one of the leading voices of modern Ambient Industrial. At the moment Mroz is working on the followup to the 2014 album. It promises to carry on in the ice cold tradition Lussuria is known for.

19:30 – 20:15 · Prins27 Theater

Nothing trains a DJ more than a long-running residency, a truism that the Cologne based musician and DJ Lena Willikens always proves when she plays her records. Her stay at the free-spirited Düsseldorfer Salon des Amateurs shaped her as a DJ, radio broadcaster and producer. Lena is never committed to one style: all is welcome as long as it is twisted in her one-of-a-kind way. Early in 2015 she released her first solo EP 'Phantom Delia' on Cómeme. She shows how far a DJ can move a dance floor into unknown and bizarre spheres that stay catchy, while being edgy.

Leo Svirsky is a pianist, composer, and accordionist currently based in the Hague. He is active in new and improvised music scenes, as well as interpreting the standard piano repertoire. He has taken master classes with many leading musicians including Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Lang Lang, Ursula Oppens, and Christian Wolff. His own composition 'Songs in the Key of Survival' was released on Ehse Records. During Rewire Svirsky will focuss on the accordeon.

Lussuria 01:30 – 03:00 · Paard II

Lena Willikens

Leo Svirsky

20:15 – 20:45 · Prins27 Foyer

Since the early 2000s, the Irish duo of Dara (aka Arad) and Ian (aka Eomac) have been painting intricate sonic tapestries, ranging from haunting Arctic soundscapes to bass-driven warehouse pieces as Lakker. In association with the Dutch 'Beeld en Geluid' institute and Ableton, Rewire presents the world premiere of their new work 'Struggle & Emerge', which will be released this month. As a prelude to the performance, the audience will be treated with an in-depth interview with Lakker themselves. Gregory Markus will moderate the conversation.

22:00 – 22:45 · Prins27 Theater

Lakker present Struggle & Emerge

The Research Concert Cycle (RCC) is an independent and open laboratory for searchers and experimenters, and for the curious from any discipline. The RCC concerts take place monthly at Studio Loos, every first Saturday of the month. Saturday April 2nd Research Concert Cycle will take place at a special venue: Barthkapel, as part of Rewire 2016. Research Concert Cycle is curated by: Cornelis de Bondt, Ivan Babinchak Renqvist, Stefano Sgarbi.

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20:00 – 23:00 · Barthkapel

Michel Banabila and Oene van Geel first met in 2013, during their collaboration for the 'Cloud Ensemble' EP. Excited by the idea of further combining their sound-world, they embarked on a new venture, to continue their electro-acoustic narrative. This resulted in 'Music for Viola and Electronics I' (2014) & 'II' (2015): a diverse neo-classical mix of viola improvisations, ambient textures, minimal compositions, and modular experiments. At Rewire they will present a world premiere: a new improvisation which will lead to 'Music for Viola and Electronics III'. This collaborative performance is commissioned by Rewire.

Alessio Natalizia is a London-based Italian artist, forging music as his alias Not Waving. His work reminds the listener of post-punk records and early 80s Italian electronic music. Diagonal just released the artist’s highly anticipated album 'Animals', saying it feels "as warped, deep-raved and giddy as a night out in the city they were forged". Not Waving offers up anthems for post-work smashups, weekenders and sore commuters.

The Research Concert Cycle

20:45 – 21:30 · Lutherse Kerk

Michel Banabila & Oene van Geel

Not Waving

00:15 – 01:00 · Paard I

Matana Roberts is an internationally renowned composer, bandleader, saxophonist, sound experimentalist and mixed-media practitioner. Last year Constellation Records released the third part of her grotesque 'Coin Coin' project, named 'River Run Thee'. Roberts quilts a panoramic tale of black America’s radical history, aiming to expose the mythical roots and intuitive spirit-raising traditions of American creative expression. International critics hail her intuitive solo performances. Roberts’ free-jazz performances involve on-the-fly evolution, combining sound, image and electronic manipulation.

22:45 – 23:30 · Lutherse Kerk

Matana Roberts

Saturday April 2

South Carolina-born and now Boston-based 20 year-old Dylan Scheer is known for her rebellious mediations with techno and house. Known as a key member of Brooklyn’s emerging electronic music underground, her dizzy, dark but extremely funky music goes deep in the most manic and unreliable ways. Her glitchy, slow and bass-driven music flirts with outsider dance vibes. Via App’s recontextualizing experiments with dance ingredients are perhaps more akin to those in the noise realm: genuinely strange in insanely heavy ways.

Vessel + Black Rain + Pete Swanson A gathering of three Rewire veterans can’t go wrong: Black Rain (US) and Pete Swanson’s (US) meeting during Rewire 2012 resulted in today’s collaboration with UK’s Vessel, who performed during Rewire 2014. This unique partnership of three "alumni" has been commissioned by the festival itself and promises to offer an ecstatic performance, broadening the scope of each individual artist. This collaborative performance is commissioned by Rewire.

20:45 – 21:30 · Prins27 Theater

Truss is the primary alias of UK producer Tom Russell. His sound takes influence from the UK’s hardcore and rave scenes, melded with a reverence for past innovators like Neil Landstrumm, Cristian Vogel and Surgeon while resolutely pushing towards new and futuristic constructions/structures. His recent works with Perc, Bleaching Agent, Donor and his younger brother Tessela have seen him use techno as a starting point for explorations into the associated territories of noise, hardcore and tear-out italo. The wider musical world has also been drawn to Truss’ sound, which has resulted in remixes for highly-regarded bands such as Liars and Depeche Mode. A DJ set from Truss uses techno as a starting point to encompass all the sounds, genres and approaches that have gone before it.

02:00 – 04:00 · Paard I

Truss

Via App

00:45 – 01:30 · Paard II

UK-based producer Roly Porter creates futuristic ambient music. His work fuses his background, as part of renowned dubsteb group Vex’d, with contemporary classical composition: focussing on sound design and resulting in a singular and often harrowing sound. Porter’s second full-length album, 'Life Cycle Of A Massive Star' (2013), captures a star’s lifespan in sound. Dreamlike landscapes are alternated by robust dynamic contrasts and often symphonic, volcanic textures. Porter’s Rewire-performance will be accompanied by visuals made by renowned visual-artist MFO.

23:30 – 00:15 · Prins27 Theater

Roly Porter & MFO

Sunday April 3

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Sunday April 3

Musical Music On Sunday, the relation between music and language is the focus of Musical Material #2. In Musical Material Music & Language two i nternational guests present, and talk to each other about their work. Alessandro Bosetti (Italy) and Felicia Atkinson (France) specialists in the fields o f music, art and/or reflection, test and discuss the details of their profession in an i ntimate setting. The exchange of expertise will look to overcome the borders of traditional disciplines, showing them to be relatively insignificant. A discussion leader will provide a flexible platform to p roducers, where, besides personal, experimental and unexpected presentations, the d ialogue forms centre stage. Musical Material is a collaboration between Rewire and West.

Alessandro Bosetti The Italian composer, performer and sound artist known as Alessandro Bosetti utilises misunderstandings, translations and interviews as compositional tools. He presents pieces for voice and electronics that blur the line between electro-acoustic composition, aural writing and performance. Bosetti is a prolific radio artist and he commissioned many hybrid text-sound compositions for Radio and Electro Acoustic Music studios in Europe, historical WDR’s Studio Akustische Kunst in Cologne and Deutschlandradio Kultur in Berlin, among others.

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Material #2 & Language 13:00 – 15:30 Humanity House

Félicia Atkinson Félicia Atkinson is a French artist and an avant-garde musician born in 1981 in Paris. She has been composing music under her own name and the moniker Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier since 2004, releasing records and tapes on different labels. Her music – most notably last year’s record 'A Readymade Ceremony' – is composed of concrete music, ASMR voices, electronics, field recordings, improvisation with guitar and piano, abstract distortions and infra basses.

Musical Material #2

Moderator Theo Ploeg Writer, lecturer, researcher, journalist and more. Maastricht-based Ploeg loves pop culture and new media. He is co-founder of 'Buro Neue', an interdisciplinary buro investigating the theory and praxis of design culture, and frnkfrt, webzine for pop, media and culture critique. He teaches and researches at the Maastricht Academy of Media Design & Technology, iArts and Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam and writes for Gonzo (circus) and KROOKS, sporadically somewhere else.

The Berlin-based composer, performer and sound artist known as Alessandro Bosetti utilizes misunderstandings, translations and interviews as compositional tools. He presents pieces for voice and electronics that blur the line between electro acoustic composition, aural writing and performance. Bosetti is a prolific radio artist and he commissioned many hybrid text-sound compositions for Radio and Electro Acoustic Music studios in Europe, historical WDR’s Studio Akustische Kunst in Cologne and Deutschlandradio Kultur in Berlin, among others.

13:00 – 13:45 · Humanity House

Alessandro Bosetti

Bas van Huizen 18:30 – 19:15 · Prins27 Theater

Bas van Huizen is a Dutch artist based in Xi’an, China. He mainly uses guitar, voice, found objects and computer to record work that ranges from beat based electronic music to more abstract work. 'Kluwekracht', his first album released through Moving Furniture Records, touches the spheres of ambient, electro-acoustic music. Rich, firm soundscapes are contrasted with brittle musical sounds like bells and glitches.

Felicia Atkinson

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Sunday April 3

Félicia Atkinson is a French artist and an avant-garde musician born in 1981 in Paris. She has been composing music under her own name and the moniker Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier since 2004, releasing records and tapes on different labels. Her music – most notably last year’s record 'A Readymade Ceremony' – is composed of concrete music, ASMR voices, electronics, field recordings, improvisation with guitar and piano, abstract distortions and infra basses. Atkinson is both invited to perform during the festival and to talk about her work.

14:45 – 15:30 · Humanity House

Emily Wells is an American performer and producer known for her varied use of classical and modern instrumentation as well as her skillful approach to live sampling. Wells has recorded and produced several albums including the critically acclaimed 'Symphonies: Dreams, Memories & Parties and Mama'. Her eclectic music combines electronics, orchestral strings, jazz structures, pop sensibilities, and vibrato-laden vocals. She contributed to the soundtrack for Park Chan-Wook’s 'Stoker' and created a piece for Terry Riley’s 80th birthday in conjunction with WNYC.

California-based musician Brian Pyle, better known as Ensemble Economique, has been around for a while. Pyle has been releasing work constantly since 2008, most notably his 2015 release, 'Blossoms in Red', on Denovali records. The record has been described as Ensemble Economique’s most minimalistic album, but possibly his most skilled work. Pyle’s work shows he has an eye for the thin layer between restlessness and relaxation, gloom and serenity.

Félicia Atkinson 20:45 – 21:30 · Paard II

Emily Wells

Ensemble Economique

16:30 – 17:15 · Paard II

Colleen is the moniker of the French multi-instrumentalist Céline Schott. She combines her voice with the warm sound of the viola da gamba, crafting her dreamily experimental pop with live loops and samples. Her most recent work, 'Captain of None' (2015), has been received with critical acclaim. Its dub-influenced rhythms and textures, combined with Colleen’s subtle voice and percussive string-technique guarantee for delicately crafted, otherworldly pop songs.

19:00 – 19:45 · Paard II

Colleen

James Welburn combines and modifies deconstructed electric bass sounds with abstract software processing. He develops ambient landscapes of noisy drones, diminished tones, clangs and distorted bass. Welburn has played with Australian experimental jazz drummer Tony Buck (The Necks) in the band Transmit. Buck also appears on Welburn’s acclaimed solo debut ‘Hold’, released through Miasmah 2015. During Rewire Welburn will will be joined by special guest Rene Aquarius (Dead Neanderthals) on drums.

17:45 – 18:30 · Paard II

James Welburn

Nicolas Becker The Art of Sound Design One of the most progressive sound practitioners working today, Nicolas Becker works across multiple art forms, combining his skills as foley artist, sound designer and composer. Working with leading filmmakers such as Danny Boyle and Roman Polanski, his many credits include 'Gravity', 'Ex Machina', 'Wuthering Heights', and Andrea Arnold’s forthcoming 'American Honey'. His many collaborations with acclaimed artist Philippe Parreno include one for the Opera Garnier in Paris, with leading choreographer Benjamin Millepieds and contemporary classical composer Nico Muhly, and a new exhibition in New York, in which microorganisms anticipate the rhythms and "predictable" qualities of the environment. Becker is also a research and development consultant for many audio software producers, and teaches regularly in leading film schools such as La Femis in Paris and the National Film & TV School in the UK. Workshop A rare opportunity to gain insight into Becker’s unique working methods and multi-disciplinary approach, and learn about designing sound across a wide array of film and arts projects. Illustrated with clips, Becker will share details of his practice – devising a bespoke process to create original and distinctive soundscapes for each project – and explain the reasoning behind his artistic approach.

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16:00 – 19:00 · Humanity House

IOM – AIM is a “state of the art” artistic research project by LOOS, investigating the design and realisation of an interactive improvisation machine, an “orchestra” or “environment” consisting of computers, speakers, projectors, microphones, sensors, cameras, audience (as data input) and human improvisers. During Rewire, LOOS will present 'Communication and Flow', a theme that will raise questions about essential qualities of improvisation, like mimesis, adaptation, trust, unpredictability, surprise, destabilisation and risk taking. 'IOM-AIM' is an idea and concept by Peter van Bergen (PhD candidate at the conservatoire in Brussels and the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels) and is developed by software programmer Johan van Kreij.

19:00 – 20:30 · Nutshuis 1st Floor

ION AIM Research

Ben UFO

Sunday April 3

Poppy Ackroyd Poppy Ackroyd is a performer and composer from London who is currently based in Edinburgh. Classically trained on violin and piano, she fell in love with contemporary piano music and with the piano beyond the keys, discovering the world of sound that could be made from other parts of the instrument. Realising the violin had the same potential, she has spent the last few years composing delicate, intricate and beautifully atmospheric music by manipulating and multi-tracking sounds from these two instruments.

17:15 – 18:00 · Prins 27 Theater

There’s more than one way to listen to 'Oba Loba' (2015), the collaborative record by Portuguese brothers Norberto Lobo and João Lobo. First of all as a folk work going far beyond the scope of the musical idiom, secondly as a jazz opus contaminated by other expressions. The Lobo brothers’ music sounds hybrid, ambiguous and ambivalent. The performance will be a Dutch premiere and feature the following sextet: Norberto Lobo (acoustic and electric guitars, fender rhodes, electricbass, monotron, vocals), João Lobo (drums, harp, vocals), Giovanni Di Domenico (keys, vocals), Ananta Roosens (violin, trumpet, vocals), Jordi Grognard (clarinet, bass clarinet, vocals), Lynn Cassiers (vocals, electronics, woodblock).

15:45 – 16:30 · Prins27 Theater

Norberto Lobo & João Lobo Sextet

Xiu Xiu

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Einstürzende Neubauten frontman and former guitar player of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ Blixa Bargeld and Italian composer Teho Teardo present their beautiful work together with a local string quartet. Their collaboration started in 2013 with their stunning record 'Still Smiling'. This record consists of 12 "flexible" songs, of which the arrangements form both a beautiful contrast as wel as a unity between acoustic string instruments and electronics. Alongside 'Still Smiling', the duo have recorded 'Spring' in 2014.

Sunday April 3

Experimental post-punk band Xiu Xiu is known for it’s versatility and high productivity; in thirteen years time the group – based around Jamie Stewart – has released no less than eleven records. Xiu Xiu’s music varies from damaged avant-pop to artfully orchestrated rock to squalls of black-hearted noise and most bases around and between. For a series of special performances Xiu Xiu have made new interpretations of the music from the legendary '90’s TV-show 'Twin Peaks', emphasizing its chaos and drama. Rather than attempting to replicate the original music, the group offers new interpretations of the music. These new interpretations make the drama of David Lynch’s classic series come alive.

19:45 – 20:45 · Grote Kerk

Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld

Xiu Xiu plays Twin Peaks

21:30 – 22:30 · Grote Kerk

Brazilian composer, percussionist and electronic musician, Ricardo Donoso draws his inspiration from a wide musical vocabulary: from contemporary composition and drone to techno and noise. Whether on his multifaceted albums or in live performance, Donoso’s main interest lies in building and manipulating an immersive sound world that blurs the line between light & dark, hope & despair and the past & future. His music has been described as a sort of "anti-techno" where polyrhythmic structures and carefully constructed textures blur any analogy of a bar line. It’s an abstract world in constant movement & mutation.

20:45 – 09:30 · Paard II

Ricardo Donoso

General Info Nutshuis Festival hub This year, the Rewire headquarter will be situated at the Nutshuis, Riviervismarkt 5. Its monumental interior will house the festival’s cash register, workshops, panel discussions, live radio, press-desk, a cafe and the Wichelroede Record Shop: all-in-all the Nutshuis will be the place to be to get your daily info, tasty drinks & food (hosted by Juni) and vinyl & books by Underbelly. Opening hours Friday .............................................. 18:00 – 00:00 Saturday ........................................ 12:00 – 00:00 Sunday.............................................13:00 – 22:00

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Tickets

Getting there

Tickets are available online and at our registration desk at the Nutshuis.

Trains run through the day to The Hague Central Station and/or The Hague Holland Spoor. On Friday and Saturday after midnight, trains will run every hour from The Hague Holland Spoor. This train will connect you to Amsterdam, Utrecht, Leiden, Schiphol, Delft, Rotterdam, Dordrecht, Breda, Tilburg, Eindhoven and ’s Hertogenbosch. On Sunday the midnight trains leaving from The Hague Holland Spoor will only bring you around the Randstad (Leiden, Schiphol, Amsterdam Central to Utrecht Central). This means they will not run towards Tilburg, Amersfoort and s’Hertogenbosch and further.

Princing (excl. fees) Regular Three-day Festival Pass.........€62,50 Dayticket Friday.......................................€26,50 Dayticket Saturday.................................. €29,50 Dayticket Sunday.....................................€26,50 Clubticket Friday/Saturday.....................€10/12 If you bought a ticket online, you can exchange your e-ticket for a Rewire wristband at the Nutshuis. The wristband will grant you access to all the festival venues. For the latest festival updates, please check www.rewirefestival.nl.

Check www.ns.nl for further information.

Wichelroede X Intergalactic FM The Hague’s finest online record store, Wichelroede, will bring their fine selection of the latest and best house, techno and electronic music to their record store and host the first edition of Rewire Radio. Throughout the day, they will host The Hague’s most delicate DJ’s to create the perfect atmosphere at Het Nutshuis. The complete Rewire Radio session will be streamed through Intergalactic FM. For actual Rewire Radio schedule please visit our website.

General Info

To get about the festival, and not miss any of the action, either take tram 2,3 or 4 from The Hague Central Station or tram 17 from The Hague Hollands Spoor. From Central Station, hop off at Grote Markt and cross the square. Walk through the Schoolstraat and take a left at the church. You’ll see the festival’s main location – Het Nutshuis - on your left. From The Hague Hollands Spoor you could take tram 17 and hop off at the Gravenstraat. Walk towards the big church in front of you. You’ll find the main festival location on your left.

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Local Food Tips

1. Paard van Troje Prinsegracht 12 2512 GA · Den Haag

There are some fine restaurants close to the festival. For your convenience we’ve made a list of some recommended restaurants close to the festival site.

2. Lutherse Kerk Lutherse Burgwal 7 2512 CB · Den Haag

Zwarte Ruiter Decent food at de Grote Markt Grote Markt 27

3. Prins27 Prinsegracht 27 2512 EW · Den Haag

Eethuis Dayang Indonesian take-away Wagenstraat 92

4. B arthkapel Gedempte Burgwal 61 2512 BS · Den Haag

Oni Japanese Dining Japanese restaurant Prinsestraat 35

5. Humanity House Prinsegracht 8 2512 GA · Den Haag

Bij HeM Café/restaurant Molenstraat 21

6. Grote Kerk Rond de Grote Kerk 12 2513 AM · Den Haag

Burgerz The name says it all Prinsestraat 23

7. Nutshuis Riviervismarkt 5 2513 AM · Den Haag

‘t Achterommetje Coffee and lunch Achterom 71

Locations

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Thanks

Supervisory Board Dunja Colman, David Kenselaar, Remco de Valk

We would like to thank all of our partners and sponsors for their continuous support. A big shout out to our amazing team of volunteers and ambassadors and of course a big thank you for visiting our festival!

Director Bronne Keesmaat Programming Bronne Keesmaat, Martijn Buser Marketing & Communications Bas van den Broeke Head of marketing & communications Mink Steekelenburg, Pieter van Vliet Production Willem Verheij Production Manager Rogier Thompson Artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; service Joya de Bock Logistics Annelieke Plugge Logistics

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