One of the highest quality music festivals in the Netherlands, Rewire festival returns this April for three days of experimental and original music.
An inner city event split across various venues in The Hague, this year will see the likes of SOPHIE, Deena Abdelwahed, Floating Points, LYZZA, Ninos Du Brasil and many more take to the stage.
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Rewire Festival is an annual festival based in Hague, Netherlands that prides itself on musical diversity and features a variety of electronic/experimental/neo-classical/jazz performers (as well as sound art/installations). Past editions of the festival (held since 2011) featured the likes of Horse Lords, GAIKA, Amnesia Scanner, Xiu Xiu, The Cult of Dom Keller and Fennesz (among many others).
This year’s edition of Rewire took place between April 6 and April 8 and featured Arto Lindsay/Zs, Chino Amobi, Elysia Crampton, Irreversible Entanglements/Moor Mother, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Karen Gwyer and many more! Full lineup for this year’s fest can be seen here.
We collected some of the reading material and tweets pertaining to this year’s edition of Rewire.
Our Rewire 2018 Recap (Glamcult)
Hitting the Hague for Rewire 2018 (MusicMap)
Autonomous Dreams: DiS Does Rewire Festival 2018 (Drowned in Sound)
UUUU! #Rewire2018 pic.twitter.com/klqnG8NqM8
— Bob Rusche – X-Rated (@bobrusche) April 7, 2018
Irreversible Entanglements. @rewirefestival #musicmusicmusic #Rewire2018 #DenHaag pic.twitter.com/yp18bnftNS
— Rita Tweeter (@planet_rita) April 7, 2018
James Holden & The Animal Spirits. Lekker hoor #Rewire2018 pic.twitter.com/n1yOB8bcMz
— Roel Janssen (@SpaceExposure) April 7, 2018
@rewirefestival Juliana Huxtable #Rewire2018 pic.twitter.com/hybcnpdkEk
— N1c0 (@nroBXL) April 8, 2018
And we’re off! Day 2 of #Rewire2018 begins at 12pm at @Korzotheater with an artist talk with @MHYSA301.https://t.co/d9eOnFX0ZQ
— Rewire (@rewirefestival) April 7, 2018
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith #rewire2018 @ Paard https://t.co/23KfmXmCXF
— Michael (@MickieF) April 6, 2018
Thanks to this piece of paper I now know which of the many @rewirefestival gigs I should have been at last night. The blokes at the next table went to see Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. #gigs #thehague #rewire2018 #music #keepmusiclive pic.twitter.com/4uxbJuisKc
— Rita Tweeter (@planet_rita) April 7, 2018
are you afraid? or are you distracted? Irreversible Entanglements @rewirefestival #Rewire2018 #DenHaag #Holland pic.twitter.com/WApy5HIV6t
— Rita Tweeter (@planet_rita) April 7, 2018
Next Events and Natty Dressers @rewirefestival #Rewire2018 #shirts #posters #musicmusicmusic #keepmusicalive #DenHaag #InHolland #thethreebeers #bedtimestories pic.twitter.com/nTMadIyyHh
— Rita Tweeter (@planet_rita) April 7, 2018
Panda Bear #Rewire2018 pic.twitter.com/XeQAOO58f0
— Roel Janssen (@SpaceExposure) April 7, 2018
Sunday coding! Network music workshop @rewirefestival with the great @tehisuni and @annaxambo #livecoding #networkmusic #musichackspace #Rewire2018 pic.twitter.com/izT6axv2t8
— Music Hackspace (@MusicHackspace) April 8, 2018
@rewirefestival @kaitlynaurelia inventive and melodic@karengwyer techno how I like it@artolindsay Dissonant grooves #Rewire2018 #rewirefestival
Personal Highlights of this festival— Enchanted forrest * (@Enchantedforre2) April 9, 2018
The Friday night of #Rewire2018 was ?
Photo recap Day 1 ft. The Music of #StrangerThings, Mykki Blanco, Lyzza, Ammar 808 and many, many more
See more at https://t.co/6Dk8HJ9Xb9
? by Pieter Kers and Parcifal Werkman pic.twitter.com/chHwbn025y— Rewire (@rewirefestival) April 9, 2018
Rewire Festival 2018 #rewire2018 || My festival review = link in bio @ The Hague, Netherlands https://t.co/0hYB1KQYQW
— a j d e h a n y (@ajdeho) April 13, 2018
When you go all the way to Den Haag for @rewirefestival, and end up seeing @benvince91 playing live…#nonclassical #Rewire2018 pic.twitter.com/9QbDEw4OYj
— Eleanor Ward (@elfward) April 6, 2018
Of Walls and Birds. Laurie Anderson performing in front of a devoted crowd in the Grote Kerk, #TheHague, #Rewire2018 The End pic.twitter.com/QIbkCIErwv
— Markus Spoerndli (@MarkusSpoerndli) April 8, 2018
The epic that is @HUXTABLEJULIANA has arrived – reverence!!!#Rewire2018 #festival #poetry #BlackGirlMagic #BlackGirlsRock pic.twitter.com/wpMf0SW7sf
— Rebekah Ubuntu (@RebekahUbuntu) April 8, 2018
Our “Women in Radio” panel during #Rewire2018
From left to right: Josephine Bosma, Carolyn Birdsall, Alec Badenoch, Natasha Taylor
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Thank you all for coming! #womeninradio #GenderEquality pic.twitter.com/38bLggZ007— New Emergences (@newemergences) April 8, 2018
A few of the faces of #Rewire2018 → @NoiseyNL was behind the scenes with MHYSA, Mykki Blanco, Fatima Al Qadiri, James Holden, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and many more. See more at https://t.co/zacVsXt6bJ
? by Raymond van Mil pic.twitter.com/80S5CWyLGk— Rewire (@rewirefestival) April 9, 2018
Vicky Chow at #Rewire2018 pic.twitter.com/ADGJYeZHlj
— ?????? ?????????? (@DanielGenser) April 7, 2018
Thanks audience, for all the pictures of my act. You’re increasing my chances of performing more! 🙂 .#latergram #DIY #opensource #supercollider #arduino #electronics #newmusic #newinstrument #rewire #composer #rewire2018 @rewirefestival pic.twitter.com/cdxLBBj9h7
— Gagi Petrovic (@gagi_petrovic) April 12, 2018
Our new music making machines @dadamachines are alive at @rewirefestival #Rewire2018 #dadamachines #lego pic.twitter.com/2JMErRuhV8
— School of Noise (@schoolofnoise) April 7, 2018
#Rewire2018 is a wrap! The energy and spirit these past three days has been truly unforgettable. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us in The Hague. We hope you had an inspiring weekend and can’t wait to welcome you back next year.
? by Pieter Kers pic.twitter.com/3FUY1R2iR7— Rewire (@rewirefestival) April 9, 2018
A bit of a natter about last weekend’s Rewire Festival ft Laurie Anderson, The Thing, James Holden & Animal Spirits, with the usual Dehany barbs and quips.https://t.co/zD9AVcZNqJ #rewire2018 pic.twitter.com/hS2D806W54
— a j d e h a n y (@ajdeho) April 13, 2018
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