Rewire Festival

Programme in Amare

Friday 4 April 

19:15 - 20:00 Colin Stetson
Location: Concertzaal
The career of saxophonist and composer Colin Stetson has spanned years of solo recordings, soundtracks and collaborations. At Rewire 2025, Stetson performs his new album The Love It Took to Leave You (2024) – playing live in the Netherlands for the first time in six years.

20:35 – 21:45 Nala Sinephro
Location: Concertzaal
The mystical jazz of London-based Caribbean-Belgian composer, producer, and musician Nala Sinephro is inquisitive and existential – scaling from the minutiae of human experience all the way up to cosmic levels of exploration. 

12:00 – 20:00 Natalia (Nika) Sorzano ‘Mud and Sticky Band’
Location: Salsa
Tree trunks, rocks, ceramics, and remnants of pop-culture waste come together to form an unlikely musical band. In Mud and Sticky Band, wonky monster-like figures emit noises and voices that merge to create an interactive sonic experience.

12:00 – 20:00 Chris Salter & Marije Baalman ‘N-Polytope, Behaviors o f Light and Sound After Iannis Xenakis’
Location: Tribunetrap
N-Polytope: Behaviors in Light and Sound After Iannis Xenakis is a dramatic light and sound environment combining cutting-edge LEDs, sound synthesis and spatialisation, and machine-learning technologies. The installation is a response to composer Iannis Xenakis’s radical 1960s–1970s Polytopes. 

Saturday 5 April

18:45 – 20:00 Arooj Aftab
Location: Concertzaal
The mercurial songs of Grammy-winning composer, musician, and singer Arooj Aftab are singular in their crisp, ethereal brilliance; her sprawling vocal practice moves across jazz, folk, alternative, pop, blues, and South Asian classical music. 

20:30 – 21:40 Anna von Hausswolff 
Location: Concertzaal
Anna von Hausswolff is known for her innovative work at the intersection of tradition and experimentation. With the organ and her voice as her primary instruments, she creates captivating soundscapes that have earned her international acclaim. At Rewire 2025, von Hausswolff presents the premiere of a brand new live show.

16:15 – 17:00 Joan La Barbara 
Location: Conservatoriumzaal
Rewire presents a rare performance from the influential experimental musician, vocalist, and composer Joan La Barbara – performing for the first time in the Netherlands in 13 years. Her compositions focus around extended vocal techniques which take circularity and cycles as their driving force.

17:35 – 18:25 Olivia Block Trio 
Location: Conservatoriumzaal
In a European premiere, composer and media artist Olivia Block – a renowned experimental artist who has been recording since the 1990s – presents her latest album The Mountains Pass (2024), accompanied by musicians Paige Naylor on electronics and organ, and Jon Mueller on drums and percussion.

22:00 – 22:45 The Handover 
Location: Conservatoriumzaal
The Handover is a critically acclaimed trio of musicians, featuring Aly Eissa on oud, Ayman Asfour on violin, and Jonas Cambien on keys. Through hypnotic improvisation, the trio draws from Egypt's rural and shaabi music and traditional Arabic music to create a new kind of ritual music that is truly contemporary.

23:15 – 23:59 Matana Roberts 
Location: Conservatoriumzaal
A deep current of wisdom and memory courses through the music of self-taught mixed-media sound artist, saxophonist, composer, and researcher Matana Roberts. At Rewire 2025, they perform a rare duo show with drummer Ryan Sawyer. 

14:00 – 17:00 Not to be Senseless 
Location: Swing
Not to be Senseless is a stage for neurodivergent art with people and pieces that experience and explore neurodivergence such as synaesthesia, savantism, and autism. This accessible event opens up new perspectives by recognising differences in how people sense the world. 

12:00 – 17:00 Installation: Reverie Garden
Location: Jazz I
Reverie Garden is a game interface for creating soundscapes with live coding, which will be on display at Rewire festival in the form of an interactive installation. It is being developed as an accessible educational tool that allows newcomers to explore a modular music environment.

12:00 – 20:00 Natalia (Nika) Sorzano ‘Mud and Sticky Band’
Location: Salsa
Tree trunks, rocks, ceramics, and remnants of pop-culture waste come together to form an unlikely musical band. In Mud and Sticky Band, wonky monster-like figures emit noises and voices that merge to create an interactive sonic experience.

12:00 – 20:00 Chris Salter & Marije Baalman ‘N-Polytope, Behaviors of Light and Sound After Iannis Xenakis’
N-Polytope: Behaviors in Light and Sound After Iannis Xenakis is a dramatic light and sound environment combining cutting-edge LEDs, sound synthesis and spatialisation, and machine-learning technologies. The installation is a response to composer Iannis Xenakis’s radical 1960s–1970s Polytopes. 

Sunday 3 April

20:30 – 21:30 Lyra Pramuk 
Location: Concertzaal
The futuristic folk music of Pramuk fuses together classical vocal techniques, contemporary club sensibilities, and poppy experimentation. Pramuk’s voice is the centrepiece around which many parts fall: swirling synthesisers, violin stabs, and shimmering ambience are scattered across her organic-electronic sound.

22:15 – 23:15 Laurie Anderson 
Location: Concertzaal
In the world of transgressive, experimental, and transdisciplinary creation, there are few artists with practices as storied and renowned as Laurie Anderson. Rewire is thrilled to welcome her back to The Hague – following a focus programme around her work at the festival in 2018 – to perform during the closing moments of the weekend.

12:45 – 13:30 FUJI​|​|​|​|​|​||​|​|​|​|​TA
Location: Conservatoriumzaal
The unique sensory world of sound artist FUJI​|​|​|​|​|​||​|​|​|​|​TA must be experienced to be understood. Fog, voice, tone, and machine circulate in contestation and harmony. He returns to Rewire to perform a new set which takes rhythm as its focus, bringing his constantly evolving organ and the years of careful mastery he has dedicated to it.

14:15 – 15:00 Nyokabi Kariũki & Cello Octet Amsterdam
Location: Conservatoriumzaal
Cello Octet Amsterdam return to Rewire to present the world premiere of a new collaborative work with Kenyan composer and sound artist Nyokabi Kariũki titled Birdsongs from Kĩrĩnyaga. Kariũki’s voice alternates with field recordings of East African songbirds and the deft playing of Cello Octet Amsterdam to foster a lively habitat of sounds which offers an interplay between nature and human heritage.

17:15 – 18:00 Alvin Curran ‘Canti Illuminati’
Location: Conservatoriumzaal
Alvin Curran is an American composer, performer, improviser, sound artist, and writer. Envisioned for choir, synthesizer, piano, and tape, Canti Illuminati will be performed at Rewire 2025 with the rare involvement of live vocalists – tapping into the ancestral and deeply human tones summoned in the piece. 

19:15 – 20:00 Rachika Nayar & Nina Keith 
Location: Conservatoriumzaal
Rachika Nayar is an artist whose colossal works move between post-rock, trance, ambient, and pop; she returns to Rewire with composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Nina Keith. Their collaboration takes both performers into the realms of hyper-dream-pop extravagance and new-age wonder.  At Rewire 2025, the duo premier their new live show on European soil.

16:50 – 17:30, 18:00 – 18:40 & 19:10 – 19:50 OFFprojects ‘The Bone Algorithm’
Location: NDT Black Box
The Bone Algorithm is an interdisciplinary performance that takes place within a spatial music instrument. Three dancers navigate their way through a fluctuating landscape of wires and pendulums. Every change they make to the space affects the sound that the installation generates and every change in the sound affects the choreography, creating a fascinating interplay of cause and effect.

12:00 – 14:00 & 14:00 – 16:00 CAAOSSS: Noise as a form of Resistance
Location: 6th floor
CAAOSSS will be bringing an immersive audio experience to Rewire this year, with sound and visual works developed specifically for this event by students in collaboration with the CAAOSSS team. CAAOSSS is a student-run, collaborative event series organised by the Composition, ArtScience, Art of Sound, and Sonology Departments of the Royal Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.

13:15 – 14:00 Angelsen, Moroz & Tomala (Sensory-Sensitive Concert) 
Location: Amare Studio
Composers and sound artists Sigrid Angelsen, Łukasz Moroz, and Oskar Tomala join together to present the sensory-sensitive performance Membranes. Working across electroacoustic composition, improvisation, and contemporary performance, the trio engages piano, cello, and zither in dynamic interplay, incorporating resonators, unconventional tunings, and live processing to sculpt an intricate, tactile sound world. 

12:00 – 19:00 Installation: Reverie Garden 
Location: Jazz I
Reverie Garden is a game interface for creating soundscapes with live coding, which will be on display at Rewire festival in the form of an interactive installation. It is being developed as an accessible educational tool that allows newcomers to explore a modular music environment.

12:00 – 20:00 Natalia (Nika) Sorzano ‘Mud and Sticky Band’
Location: Salsa
Tree trunks, rocks, ceramics, and remnants of pop-culture waste come together to form an unlikely musical band. In Mud and Sticky Band, wonky monster-like figures emit noises and voices that merge to create an interactive sonic experience.

12:00 – 20:00 Chris Salter & Marije Baalman ‘N-Polytope, Behaviors of Light and Sound After Iannis Xenakis’
Location: Tribunetrap
N-Polytope: Behaviors in Light and Sound After Iannis Xenakis is a dramatic light and sound environment combining cutting-edge LEDs, sound synthesis and spatialisation, and machine-learning technologies. The installation is a response to composer Iannis Xenakis’s radical 1960s–1970s Polytopes.