First names Rewire 2025 announced

21 November 2024, news

Between 3 and 6 April 2025 Rewire Festival will once again be showcasing genre-traversing and forward-thinking music, special projects, and multidisciplinary performances across 20+ cultural venues in the city centre of The Hague, including Amare! Discover the first 42 artists and projects who will make the 14th edition of the festival a great succes.

The first announcement of Rewire 2025 include a multi-day focus programme around the work of Alvin Curran, influential pioneer of sonic experimentation. On top of that the festival offers Dutch premiers including a brand new show by Anna Von Hausswolff, Kali Malone who will be performing backed by vocal ensemble Macadam and Stephen O'Malley, the new audiovisual work of sound artist, DJ, and producer JASSS and artist and director Ben Kreukniet, Moin offer a post-hardcore opus that brings in exciting vocal collaborators to contribute, including artist and writer Sophia Al-Maria and Irish-underground “heavy pop” star Olan Monk. The legendary improvisational noise duo Yellow Swans, the enigmatic underground dance power-house Two Shell, vocal virtuoso Joan La Barbara, the interdisciplinary collaboration of Forensis (Forensic Architecture) & Bill Kouligas. Also joining the line-up are Oklou, Nala Sinephro, Arooj Aftab, Good Sad Happy Bad, and the bubbling producer/DJ De Schuurman. These acts are just some of the experimental and boundary-pushing artists expected at Rewire 2025.

Focus programme: Alvin Curran
Over the years, Rewire has championed early pioneers and innovators of experimental music who have impacted the landscape of contemporary music and art. This year, Rewire presents a multi-day focus programme around the work of an influential pioneer of sonic experimentation: composer, performer, improviser, sound artist, and writer Alvin Curran. An uncompromising master of alchemising experimental electronics and environmental found sounds, Curran’s idiosyncratic compositions have spanned decades; across his over-50-year-long career he has stood as a singular force in the landscapes of contemporary classical, free improvisation, sound collage, and electronics. Another pioneering experimental musician, the vocalist and composer

A limited number of Reduced 3-Day Passes are still available until 30 November via rewirefestival.nl/tickets