Rewire

"A truly rich blend of cutting-edge sounds, with an impressive number of special commissions" Rewire is an annual international festival for adventurous music.

Across four days from 3 - 6 April 2025, Rewire will return to The Hague with its fourteenth festival edition, bringing together a wide range of musical and interdisciplinary performances, specially commissioned works, club nights, installations, talks, screenings, and more.

27/08/2026

On Friday, 2 October, Rewire x Korzo returns to Korzo for its 25th edition. Presented in collaboration with the venue, the long-running concert series continues its exploration of adventurous music at one of The Hague’s defining spaces for contemporary performing arts.

After a beautiful performance at Rewire 2026, Paris-based Egyptian composer, writer, and singer Abdullah Miniawy returns to The Hague with his trio, alongside trombonists Robinson Khoury and Jules Boittin. Drawing on jazz and Egyptian soundscapes, the trio brings Miniawy’s multidimensional music to life.

The illusory music of musician, home-recorder, and NTS Radio resident Dagmar Zuniga projects a ghostly picture. Her softly sung, stripped-back folk builds dark, mysterious worlds from tape hiss, fragile melodies, and hypnagogic textures.

One of the most engaging albums released so far this year, Duori is a collaboration between Italian artist and musician Heith and Bandung duo Tarawangsawelas. Together, they reimagine Tarawangsa, a form of sacred music from Sundanese West Java, through a contemporary lens.

Rewire x Korzo #25 presents Abdullah Miniawy Trio, Heith & Tarawangsawelas, and Dagmar Zuniga on Friday, 2 October.

Read more and book tickets via rewirefestival.nl/tickets

25/08/2026

Tianzhuo Chen’s Asian Dope Boys brings together music, performance, theatre, and rave culture in sprawling, immersive happenings. In this clip from 'Rewire 2026: A Short Documentary', Chen reflects on 'PHYSIS', the eight-hour work that blurred the boundaries between concert, club, theatre, and performance.⁠
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The 15th anniversary edition of Rewire may be behind us, but its energy continues to reverberate across The Hague. 'Rewire 2026: A Short Documentary' offers a glimpse into some of the performances, encounters, and ideas that shaped the festival, through the voices of the artists who were part of it. Watch the full documentary via rewirefestival.nl/news/rewire-2026-a-short-documentary
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The film features reflections and insights from artists including Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Raül Refree, Mayssa Jallad, Antony Hamilton (Chunky Move), Tianzhuo Chen (Asian Dope Boys), Beatrice Dillon, KMRU, and Ash Fure, alongside footage from across the festival’s four days of bold and inspiring performances, installations, and conversations.

Directed and captured by Mind the Film, the documentary brings these voices and moments together, moving between performances, encounters, and the spaces that hosted them.

22/08/2026

A look back at XTC in the XIV's mesmerising performance at Nieuwe Kerk during Rewire 2026's Saturday. ⁠
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What started as a sample-based project using time stretching, pitch shifting, and other club music conventions to reimagine early vocal polyphony unfolded as a live vocal ensemble, playing the voice as if it had been chopped, pasted, and controlled by a sequencer. Through live electronics and vocal performance, XTC in the XIV carried the ancient into the present on the wind from their singing lungs, blending syllabic chants with intricate melodies and choral arrangements into a strikingly machinic interpretation of early vocal music, set against the resonant acoustics of Nieuwe Kerk.⁠
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Video by Niels van der Lans

20/08/2026

Two new Rewire x Korzo editions are on the horizon, continuing the long-running concert series across two evenings this autumn.

Rewire x Korzo #25 on Friday, 2 October presents Abdullah Miniawy Trio, Heith & Tarawangsawelas, and Dagmar Zuniga.

Rewire x Korzo #26 on Friday, 4 December presents Raül Refree & Niño de Elche, Visible Cloaks, and Diamanda Dramm ‘Chimp’.

Last year, Rewire x Korzo brought together Perforator, Eli Keszler, and Nadah El Shazly (with 3Phaz) for another sold-out evening at Korzo. From embodied intensity to fractured percussion and Arabic-inflected forms, the evening moved through a range of distinct sonic approaches.

Revisit the evening through Parcifal Werkman’s photo series, and join us in The Hague for the next editions this autumn. Book tickets via rewirefestival.nl/tickets

18/08/2026

Antony Hamilton’s work with Chunky Move explores the shifting relationship between bodies, machines, technology, and movement. In this clip from 'Rewire 2026: A Short Documentary', he reflects on 'U>N>I>T>E>D' and the speculative world of dancers, machines, and machinic bodies they brought to the stage.⁠
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The 15th anniversary edition of Rewire may be behind us, but its energy continues to reverberate across The Hague. 'Rewire 2026: A Short Documentary' offers a glimpse into some of the performances, encounters, and ideas that shaped the festival, through the voices of the artists who were part of it. Watch the full documentary via rewirefestival.nl/news/rewire-2026-a-short-documentary
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The film features reflections and insights from artists including Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Raül Refree, Mayssa Jallad, Antony Hamilton (Chunky Move), Tianzhuo Chen (Asian Dope Boys), Beatrice Dillon, KMRU, and Ash Fure, alongside footage from across the festival’s four days of bold and inspiring performances, installations, and conversations.

Directed and captured by Mind the Film, the documentary brings these voices and moments together, moving between performances, encounters, and the spaces that hosted them.

16/08/2026

The illusory music of musician, home-recorder, and NTS Radio resident Dagmar Zuniga, performing at Rewire x Korzo on Friday 2 October, projects a ghostly picture. Zuniga joins the lineage of softly sung folk musicians building dark, mysterious worlds through very stripped-back means.⁠
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She summons the forward-thinking experimentation in folk songforms that Norma Tanega and Linda Perhacs were stalwarts of, and couples that with the foggy, psychedelic, DIY sensibilities of early Brian Jonestown Massacre and Beat Happening. Awash with tape hiss, her hypnagogic folk hallucinations sound as if they emerge from some plane between this world and the next – from some place between the conscious world and what awaits in dreams. ⁠
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Her haunted dream pop melodies for voice and guitar warble, crackle, and burn ever so bright – as can be heard on her most recent album in filth your mystery is kingdom / far smile peasant in yellow music (2026). Zuniga's phantasmal songs will be performed with the accompaniment of her band at Rewire x Korzo #25.⁠
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Rewire x Korzo #25 on Friday, 2 October presents Abdullah Miniawy Trio, Heith & Tarawangsawelas, and Dagmar Zuniga.⁠ Book tickets via rewirefestival.nl/tickets

14/08/2026

Four months on from the 15th anniversary edition of Rewire, the energy of those four days still reverberates across The Hague. The festival may be behind us, but the impressions it left behind continue to surface in unexpected ways. We’re glad to share a glimpse of Rewire 2026 through a short documentary filmed across the festival, offering a closer look at some of the moments and encounters that shaped this year’s edition. Watch the full documentary via rewirefestival.nl

The film features reflections and insights from artists including Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Raül Refree, Mayssa Jallad, Antony Hamilton (Chunky Move), Tianzhuo Chen (Asian Dope Boys), Beatrice Dillon, KMRU, and Ash Fure, alongside footage from across the festival’s four days of bold and inspiring performances, installations, and conversations.

Directed and captured by Mind the Film, the documentary brings these voices and moments together, moving between performances, encounters, and the spaces that hosted them. The film features music by Caterina Barbieri & Bendik Giske, of whom the former performed on the festival’s opening night.

Thank you to everyone who brought this 15th edition of Rewire to life in extraordinary ways: the artists for their imagination, the visitors for their curiosity, and the volunteers, crew, and countless others who worked tirelessly behind the scenes. And last but not least, a special thank you to our venues, as well as funding, creative, social, and media partners.

Photo by Wouter Vellekoop

11/08/2026

As the Rewire 2026's Saturday stirred into movement, one of the evening's first performances came at the hands of Suzan Peeters, whose accordion experiments lit the flames of inspiration for many who witnessed her performance. The Brussels-based accordionist, composer, and improviser uses the accordion in ways previously unimagined – taking its gestural and pneumonic, breathy characteristics and infusing this age-old folk instrument with new cybernetic, noisy potential. ⁠
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In her search for new timbres and sonic textures within the instrument, she pushes the accordion's acoustic spectrum to its limits in a careful yet energetic interplay between her body and the body of the accordion, as Rewire's videographers captured here, during her performance at the festival's 15th anniversary edition in early April.⁠
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Video by Niels van der Lans

08/08/2026

Last year, Rewire x Korzo brought together Brìghde Chaimbeul, Farzané, and Kara-Lis Coverdale for an evening that unfolded across hypnotic drones, digital-sensory improvisations, and luminous, spectral soundscapes. Revisit the evening through Parcifal Werkman’s photo series. This autumn, the series continues:⁠
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Rewire x Korzo #25 on Friday, 2 October presents Abdullah Miniawy Trio, Heith & Tarawangsawelas, and Dagmar Zuniga.⁠
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Rewire x Korzo #26 on Friday, 4 December presents Raül Refree & Niño de Elche, Visible Cloaks, and Diamanda Dramm 'Chimp'.⁠
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Book tickets via rewirefestival.nl/tickets

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