Rewire is part of SHAPE+, a European platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art co-funded by the European Union and Pro Helvetia. SHAPE+ is artist-oriented, and, every year, it creates a selection of exceptional emerging talent via open call, and curatorial voting, to then foster their careers with performance invitations, collaborative residencies, commissions, seminars, and networking events. 

At this year’s festival, Rewire presents a number of artists who are part of the SHAPE+ platform and context events which too have been supported by SHAPE+.

On Friday, Brazil-born, Berlin-based DJ and producer alys(alys)alys and composer, producer, and singer Clarissa Connelly perform at the festival, while vocalist, composer, and sound artist Antonina Nowacka showcases the outcome of a residency with two renowned musicians of the Dutch contemporary music scene: flutist, composer, and improviser Anne La Berge and harpist Doriene Marselje. On Saturday, Lukas De Clerck shows off his telescopic aulos, his reimagining of the long-extinct double-reeded Greco-Roman instrument. Jazz musician and composer Anja Lauvdal performs on Sunday, before acoustic and electroacoustic composer, improviser, and sound artist Nick Dunston performs with his band project Skultura, whose unpredictable music leads listeners ear-first into a chaotic sound world of mercurial movement. Composer and musician Zen My Nguyen, aka Radio Hito, showcases the outcome of a residency with Alex Andropoulos & David Bennewith in the form of a special collaborative live A/V show.

Also on Saturday and Sunday, three context programme events occur with SHAPE+’s support, the first of which is Conversation: On Sharing Language, with Radio Hito, Alex Andropoulos and David Bennewith on Saturday, where, the day before their concert, they will enter into a conversation on their interdisciplinary collaboration and sharing of languages. Then, there is Bones, Drones and Tones with NYX, which introduces singers and non-singers to using body and voice as a vessel for connection. The third event is the conversation Music Journalism Today: it is a panel talk on the state of music journalism today between Sasha-Frere Jones, Alan Marzo-Strani and Olivier Duport of FLEE, and Rewire Reflections participants, moderated by Hugo Emmerzael.

SHAPE+ is co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

Image: Clarissa Connelly