With the 14th edition of Rewire moving ever closer, 32 new artists and projects have been added to the line-up today, spanning adventurous performances, interdisciplinary works, and site-specific collaborations. The 2025 festival will be taking place between 3 and 6 April across 20+ venues in The Hague. 3-Day Passes have sold out, but a limited number of Day Passes are still available.
Joining the line-up is the incomparable Billy Bultheel. Known for his transgressive works across music, performance, and installation, Bultheel brings the Dutch premiere of his A Short History of Decay performance to Rewire, accompanied by an ensemble of musicians. In this one-of-a-kind work, the audience are divided into two groups: one of which joins the musicians on stage, while the other sits around a towering, monolithic instrument that amplifies and resonates with the piece's deep tones. Speaking to and critiquing growing divisions and imbalances of power, the music – featuring re-interpreted Gregorian melodies with electronics, blast beats, and screaming distortion – is punctuated by three incisive monologues, co-written with writer and curator Edwin Nasr.
Eiko Ishibashi – a renowned musician with a two-decades-long career across art-pop, soundtrack composition, and experimental music – will play a solo piece for piano, flute, voice, and electronics in the special surroundings of Lutherse Kerk. While mixed-media sound artist, saxophonist, composer, and researcher Matana Roberts comes to the festival with a specially assembled one-off constellation of musicians to perform their boundary-pushing music – charting diverse pathways between modern and avant-garde jazz composition.
The forthcoming album by more eaze & claire rousay – no floor – elicits a cinematic visual world, painted across songs of heart-wrenching ambience and wistful Americana; the duo of friends and collaborators present the world premiere live performance of this new album at Rewire 2025. Another collaboration between friends, Ana Roxanne and DJ Python, aka Natural Wonder Beauty Concept, also joins the line-up. A pensive project of ambient art-pop and mumblecore trip hop, the collaboration features echoes of DJ Python’s club focus, while Roxanne's R&B-inspired vocals shine and dissipate into scintillating production. Brought into the spotlight while cutting her teeth as the bassist for shoegazing giants My Bloody Valentine, Deb Googe, aka da Googie, and Cara Tivey play music from their monumental forthcoming record The Golden Thread, where snarling distorted guitar drones are interwoven with delicate piano and enchanting vocals.
Re-constructing the signature sounds of rave and industrial for the modern era of hyperactivity, Cortical's noise-laden electronics orient towards the future, dragging club music into the unknown, kicking and screaming. The new project of multidisciplinary artists Sevi Iko Dømochevsky and Daniel Benza, they present their immersive live AV show at Rewire 2025. Also at the festival this year, providing a live AV show featuring music from their anticipated new album État Coupable, is Use Knife. Formed by Iraqi vocalist and percussionist Saif Al-Qaissy, Belgian musicians Kwinten Mordijck and Stef Heeren, and multidisciplinary artist Youniss Ahamad, they use electronics to invoke Arabic melodies and percussion, creating club-ready tracks that are potent with industrial energy, ragged post-punk distortion, and kinetic EBM pulses.
A playful charm and unbridled sense of adventure circulates the bright music of Belia Winnewisser, who joins the festival line-up for 2025. From glimmering synths and echoing bass drums, to expansive arpeggios and clattering snare drums, her energetic live shows move between shadowy abstract electronics and brighter poppy moments. To mark the end of their multi-year residency at Rewire, as young artists in residence, No Plexus – the experimental electronic composer-producer music duo bridging electronic pop and contemporary classical music – will premiere a brand new audiovisual show at the festival, in collaboration with visual artist Amalia Jaulin.
The distinctly decolonial and shamanic club sound of Animistic Beliefs has been tearing up club floors for the past few years, but with Thức Tỉnh – in collaboration with performance artist Jeisson Drenth and which will feature at Rewire 2025 – they move towards performance: creating a lush work that intertwines music with shadow puppetry, poetry, and masked choreographies to speak to issues of bi-cultural identity, queerness, migration, and belonging – culminating in a cathartic rave. A similar sense of theatricality and movement courses through the performances of another artist who joins the line-up: Kinlaw, whose moments of delicate and harmonious chamber pop are transposed with whirling and energetic industrial tracks. Kinlaw brings the European premiere of a new performance – part choreography, part popstar, and part chaos – centered around her forthcoming sophomore album, gut ccheck, to the festival.
MC Yallah & Debmaster come to Rewire 2025 to perform music from their forthcoming album, set for release in early April. Rapping across English, Kiswahili, Luganda, and Luo tongues, MC Yallah’s impeccable vocals are grounded by Debmaster’s immense productions – combining trap, techno, and grime styles to envisage a futuristic and singular sound. Also coming to the festival this year is the unpredictable all-caps-style hip hop of Chicago duo Angry Blackmen. With ferocity, they spit over industrialised beats, speaking to Black experience in the contemporary US with blunt wit and anti-establishment spirit.
With their new album release just over the horizon, the futuristic choir collaboration NYX joins the line-up. The group, led by music director Sian O’Gorman, takes the voice and its potentials to new places, while melding it with sparkling and sincere electronic production. Another project which plays with the voice that will be at the festival this April is Meara O’Reilly’s Hockets for Two Voices performed by Mingjia Chen + Linnea Sablosky. Hocking is a thirteenth-century style of singing that involves taking a melody and splitting it across multiple voices. In O'Reilly's piece, the competing and syncopated voices play off one another with a jovial and convivial sense of pleasure.
Performing for the first time outside of Japan at Rewire 2025 is Posuposu Otani. Experimenting with simple yet heartfelt cyclical guitar phrases on his ragas, compositions, and songs, Otani opens his mouth and lets out peculiar, rumbling bursts of distinct throat singing – blending numerous kinds of transcontinental traditional song into a unique sound. Through hypnotic improvisation, The Handover draws from Egypt's rural and shaabi music and traditional Arabic music to create a new kind of ritual music that is truly contemporary. The trio of Aly Eissa on oud, Ayman Asfour on violin, and Jonas Cambien on keys bring their trance-inducing music to The Hague this April. Central to Merche Blasco's practice is the building of intriguing technological assemblages that are designed to be imprecise, thus allowing for embodied and imperfect kinds of electroacoustic composition to take place. She presents Fauna at Rewire 2025, a live improvisational show using a set of custom-made instruments and artifacts that are brought to life through exploration and touch.
Violinist, composer, and performer Elisabeth Klinck's ambient compositions marry organic textural noise and field recordings with synthesised drones and wailing violins – opening for the Rewire audience a window into an otherworldly place. The duo of Comes & Veldman – Dutch composer Martijn Comes and veteran of the Dutch musical avant-garde Hessel Veldman – perform music from their collaborative album Manifest Exodus at the festival. It is a work that quivers with vast droning bass and twinkles with blissful high frequencies where moments of harmony disintegrate and rebuild themselves in a perpetual dance of decay and regeneration. The new group NÆT holds in their wistful, murmured pop songs a paradoxically fantastical realism. Above euphoric tape-saturated ambience, angelic and vulnerable vocals move between majestic R&B melodies and idiosyncratic lyricism. At the festival, the band’s show is complemented by visuals from animator La China Supay.
Rewire 2025 marks the fifth edition of Proximity Music, a joint exhibition programme by Rewire and iii, exploring the intersections of music, architecture, technology, ritual, and play through immersive, multisensory installations. Running from 3 to 6 April, this year’s programme – Proximity Music: Echoes of Entropy – unfolds across multiple sites in The Hague’s city centre, featuring newly commissioned and adapted works by both emerging and established artists. Taking as a theme the thin boundary between order and chaos, visitors can expect at Proximity Music resonant sonic environments, kinetic sculptures, and tactile interactions from Aura Satz, Chris Salter & Marije Baalman, Coralie Vogelaar, Ioana Vreme Moser, Natalia (Nika) Sorzano, Navid Navab, and a major new commissioned work by Zimoun. Full programme details available on the Proximity Music: Echoes of Entropy event page.
Finally, Rewire is happy to present Membranes, a Sensory-Sensitive Concert by Sigrid Angelsen, Łukasz Moroz, and Oskar Tomala, on Sunday, 6 April, at Amare. Developed for those sensitive to conventional concert settings, this immersive performance explores sound, space, and perception. Using piano, cello, and zither, the trio interacts with a moving fabric surface that filters and reshapes sound, making resonance visible. Atmospheric lighting and a low-stimulus environment enhance the tactile listening experience. More info available via the Sensory-Sensitive Concert announcement.
Rewire 2025 music line-up so far:
*newly announced artists featured in bold
Able Noise
AKA HEX (Aïsha Devi & Slikback)
Alessandro Cortini ‘Nati Infiniti’
Alvin Curran ‘Maritime Rites,’ ‘Canti Illuminati,’ and solo
Angelsen, Moroz & Tomala ‘Membranes’ world premiere
Angry Blackmen
Animistic Beliefs & Jeisson Drenth ‘Thức Tỉnh’
Anna von Hausswolff
Arooj Aftab
Aura Satz ‘Warnings in Waiting’
aya & MFO ‘hexed!’
Backxwash
Bassvictim
Belia Winnewisser
Ben LaMar Gay Ensemble
Billy Bultheel ‘A History of Decay’
billy woods
BITOI
Body Meat
Body Meπa
caroline
Chris Salter & Marije Baalman ‘N-Polytope, Behaviors of Light and Sound After Iannis Xenakis’
Clarissa Connelly
Colin Self ‘Gasp!’ world premiere
Colin Stetson
Comes & Veldman ‘Manifest Exodus’
Coralie Vogelaar ‘Interpersonal Biofeedback Apparatus Encoding Cardiac Fluctuations’
Cortical
da Googie & Cara Tivey
De Schuurman
DJ Plead b2b rRoxymore
Djrum
Eiko Ishibashi
Elisabeth Klinck
Elliot Galvin
Elori Saxl
emma dj (live) world premiere
emptyset
Erika de Casier
Ex-Easter Island Head
Fennesz
Forensis & Bill Kouligas ‘The Drum and The Bird’
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Gagi Petrovic & Modelo62 ‘Pay To Destroy’ world premiere
Good Sad Happy Bad
Hassan Abou Alam
Holy Tongue meets Shackleton
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly ‘MESTIZX’
Ioana Vreme Moser ‘Fluid Anatomy’
Isaiah Hull
JASSS & Ben Kreukniet world premiere
Joan La Barbara
John Glacier
Kali Malone 'All Life Long'
Kassie Krut
Katarina Gryvul with Alex Guevara world premiere
Kianí Del Valle Performance Group, Hamill Industries & Tayhana ‘CORTEX’
Kinlaw
Lord Spikeheart
Lukas De Clerck
Lyra Pramuk world premiere
Maria Somerville
MAISON the FAUX ‘GLAMPUSS with YoungWoman & Arno Verbruggen’
Matana Roberts
Matmos
maya dhondt
MC Yallah & Debmaster
Meara O’Reilly’s 'Hockets For Two Voices' performed by Mingjia Chen & Linnea Sablosky
Merche Blasco ‘Fauna’
Milan W.
Moin ft. Sophia Al-Maria & Olan Monk
Molina
more eaze & claire rousay
NÆT world premiere
Nala Sinephro
Natalia (Nika) Sorzano ‘Mud and Sticky Band’
Natural Wonder Beauty Concept
Navid Navab ‘Organism + Excitable Chaos’
No Plexus world premiere
Nyokabi Kariũki & Cello Octet Amsterdam world premiere
NYX
Oklou
Olan Monk
Olivia Block Trio ‘The Mountains Pass’
Osmium (Hildur Guðnadóttir, Rully Shabara, Sam Slater, James Ginzburg)
Panda Bear
Posuposu Otani
Rachika Nayar & Nina Keith
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Sébastien Robert & Mark IJzerman ‘Another Deep’ world premiere
Seefeel
SML
Takkak Takkak
Tayhana
The Handover
The Soft Pink Truth
Tristan Perich & ensemble 0 ‘Open Symmetry’
Two Shell
Use Knife
Verdensteatret ‘Flat Sun’
Wendy Eisenberg
Yellow Swans
YHWH Nailgun
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Zimoun ‘Motors, Strings, Resonance Bodies’ world premiere
Tickets
With 3-Day Passes for Rewire 2025 now sold out, a final batch of Day Passes for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday remain – but not for long. The festival’s opening programme on Thursday 3 April also has limited availability, featuring Kianí Del Valle Performance Group, Tayhana & Hamill Industries’ CORTEX, and Alessandro Cortini’s Nati Infiniti. Don’t wait – book now at rewirefestival.nl/tickets