Rewire Festival Programme 2015

Rewire

Festival Programme

Festival 1 & 2 May – The Hague, NL

Photo: Jan Rijk

Fotobijschrift Herman Kolgen & BL!NDMAN, Rewire 2014

Rewire 2015

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Rewire 2015

Introduction

The fifth edition of Rewire Festival will take place on May 1 & 2, as opposed to the previous four editions which were held in November. Moving the festival to spring proved to be a huge challenge, so quickly after the completion of the 2014 edition.

It offers a test case for our festival to see if this particular timing will benefit us in the long term.

Rewire 2015 will be presented across seven venues ranging from the industrial E.ON Electriciteitsfabriek, the versatile Korzo theatre, the beautiful Oud-Katholieke Kerk to underground club HOOP, Idazaal and the biggest ánd smallest pop venues in town; Paard van Troje and 330 Live.

Each venue reflecting the specific requirements for particular performances.

The programme includes multidisciplinary performances, concerts, club nights, workshops and talks.

With the 2015 programme we wanted to present the most diverse selection of artists, genres and styles so far shown within the Rewire context, a framework which we have developed carefully over the past four editions. During our extensive two day programme you can expect many exciting artists; whether internationally acclaimed or local talents in the field of contemporary electronic music, new jazz, hiphop, experimental pop, modern composition, sound art and multidisciplinary performances. The programme reflects on the constant stream of developments in contemporary and electronic music. It challenges the festival visitor to explore new sonic territories more than ever before, as we’ve made way for more relatively unknown artists compared to our previous edition. We invite our audience to explore our curatorial goals more in great-

er depth than before. Projects presented

by Holly Herndon, Julianna Barwick, Jenny Hval & Susanna and MGBG represent an artistic practice where the voice serves as central theme. Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Siinai, Gnod, Cult of Dom Keller and Gut & Irmler offer an interesting mix of post-rock, spacerock and psychrock thats seems ever more present in modern independent music culture. The route consisting of Shabazz Palaces, Neneh Cherry & Rocketnumbernine, Dandana and Mbongwana Star explorers a context where hiphop, experimental pop, 70’s psych, African and electronic music blend. Rewire continues to focus on the exciting amalgamation of impro, free jazz, noise and electronica with performances of Yodok III, Jac Berrocal + David Fenech + Vincent Epplay, Chris Corsano & Mette Rasmussen, Oren Ambarchi and Tomas Järmyr. Two artists who are well known for their devotion to (modular) synthesizers are Thomas Ankersmit and Alessandro Cortini. Ankersmit explorers the endless possibilities of the Serge synthesizer while Cortini has earned his stripes working with the Buchla synth and most recently the Roland MC 202. Our extensive clubprogramme reflects on the ever evolving club scene.

From post-internet sounds of TCF, Holly Herndon and Evian Christ to showcases of leading underground labels such as L.I.E.S. and Diagonal. These are just a few highlights of the extensive programme. This booklet will offer a complete overview of the programme. We have tried to be as complete as possible, but for last minute updates, please refer to our website.

We wish you a very inspiring stay at our festival.

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Holly Herndon

Friday 96wlrd Akka Alessandro Cortini Bronze Teeth Casperelectronics De Tuinen Evian Christ Fetter Gaby Felten Godspeed You! Black Emperor Grouper Gut & Irmler Holly Herndon Klankman Leslie Nagel Lorn Mischa Daams MGBG Organisms Omer Eilam Powell

Ron Morelli Shit and Shine Sara Pape García Saskia Lankhoorn / Kate Moore present Dances & Canons Sima Kim Stoka Ensemble Svengalisghost TCF Thomas Ankersmit presents ‘Eartones’ Tomaga Total Life Yara van der Velden

Please refer to our separate timetable (online and physical distributed at the venues) for up-to-date showtimes.

May 1

Friday programme

May 1

E.ON Electriciteitsfabriek

Paard van Troje

Grouper us

Godspeed You! Black Emperor ca

Grouper is a recording and performing project by Liz Harris. She lives and works in Astoria, OR. Following the release of latest album ‘Ruins’ on Kranky, she presents a new set of songs, ambient sound and field recordings with original films by Paul Clipson.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a multidisciplinary collective from Montréal, Canada.

The group, originally formed in 1994, has been highly influential within the post-rock genre. Working with orchestrated arrangements, the nine-piece group create tracks with wide dynamic ranges, a highly evocative use of instrumentation and sounds and uncompromising long form compositions.

DOORS OPEN 20.00

DOORS OPEN 19:30

Total Life ca

Grouper

Kevin Doria of Growing has a new solo project, Total Life. Ad Hoc magazine wrote of Doria’s new work: “If Eliane Radigue and Kevin Drumm made a record together it might sound something like Total Life.

Kevin Doria creates a sound world with deep inner dynamics shrouded by distortion. Whether you stay on the surface or listen deeply, the energy in this work is vivid.”

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Friday programme

May 1

Korzo I

brutal but often beautiful electronic music.

Lorn is also known for composing the music for the video game, ‘Kill Zone Shadow Fall’ that was developed by the Dutch company, Guerrilla Games. Rather than release a new full-length LP, Lorn spent most of 2014 releasing a run of free-to-download EPs known as the ‘Maze to Nowhere’ series.

At this year’s Rewire Festival Lorn will present a brand new A/V show.

KORZO OPEN FROM 18:30

Evian Christ uk Evian Christ is a UK-based abstract hip-hop/ downtempo producer, who is best known for his releases on the Tri Angle Records label. 2014 saw the release of his critically acclaimed ‘Waterfall’ EP. As Pitchfork commented; “The music is bursting with color and the surges are palpable, and you can almost see the legions of head-banging festival-goers whenever tracks hit a big peak.” Further to this, Evian Christ came to the notice of Kayne West, who asked him to co-produce one of the tracks on West’s ‘Yeezus’ album. Evian Christ will present a brand new A/V show at Rewire, in collaboration with live visual artist Emmanuel Biard.

Saskia Lankhoorn / Kate Moore present Dances & Canons nl/au Saskia Lankhoorn is a dedicated pianist from the Netherlands. Lankhoorn has a deep interest in the work of composer Kate Moore, one that saw her release an LP of Moore’s work, ‘Dances & Canons’ in late 2014. Lankhoorn displays a lyrical freedom with her touch and approach that reaches beyond the structural and technical demands of Moore’s score. Her insights into Moore’s pieces, and her sensitivity to their sonic possibilities, are based on more than a decade of close collaboration with the composer.

Holly Herndon us Holly Herndon has become a leading light in contemporary alternative and electronic music by fearlessly experimenting within the outer reaches of dance music and pop songwriting structures. Herndon is known for her releases on RVNG Intl. and uses the programming language Max/MSP to create custom instruments and vocal processes to create her inimitable brand of cyber pop music. Her second album ‘Platform’ will be released in May on 4AD and will be premiered live in The Netherlands with a special A/V show at Rewire 2015.

TCF no Artist, graduate of Frankfurt’s famed Städelschule, and “experimental computer musician” formerly known as Cracksmurf, Lars Holdhus’s work as TCF explores themes of code, cryptography and privacy. To do this he creates a dizzying, often inspiring mash of visual, sonic, built and written concepts. Boomkat raved about his recent release, ‘415C47197F78E8’… on Liberation Technologies: “Ultimately, words fall well short of adequately describing this stuff; it simply needs to be experienced, fully immersed… pupils dilated.”

Lorn us Lorn is the alias of American electronic musician Marcos Ortega, who is best known for his releases on the renowned labels Brainfeeder and Ninja Tune. With his unique production style, Lorn creates dark and 7

Friday programme

May 1

Korzo II

Bronze Teeth uk

KORZO OPEN FROM 18:30

Bronze Teeth (L/F/D/M’s Richard Smith and Factory Floor’s Dominic Butler)have all-embracing love of electronic music and all its permutations – from Norman McLaren and Terry Riley to Powell. But what really floats the duo’s boat is the early ’90s rave scene; an often-quoted, but at the same time overlooked era; one that experimented gloriously between a plethora of styles and attitudes.

Bronze Teeth take this era’s confidence and colour but display a knack for getting straight to the point.

Alessandro Cortini it Well known for his work with Nine Inch Nails, Cortini also busies himself with a number of other projects; namely SONOIO, Modwheelmood and blindoldfreak. At Rewire, Cortini will play his new solo LP ‘Sonno’; for the first time in the EU. ‘Sonno’ – a staple of many end of year lists – was recorded in hotel rooms using a Roland MC 202 put through a delay pedal, sometimes straight into a small portable speaker system. Boomkat were sufficiently moved to write that this intriguing, surprisingly emotional LP is “essential listening for anyone who can’t get enough of classic material from ENO or AFX and bored with cheap imitations.

Highly Recommended.”

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Gut und Irmler

Two giants of the German experimental electronic music scene join forces at Rewire 2015; Hans Joachim Irmler, from legendary Krautrock agitators Faust, and Gudrun Gut of Malaria!, Einstürzende

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Friday programme

May 1

Neubauten and Monika Enterprise. Their different approaches to music - the Krautrock-informed explorations from Irmler and the hedonistic techno from Berlin-based Gut - were brought together in their acclaimed collaborative album, 2014’s ‘500m’, recorded at the Faust studio in 2013. The Gut & Irmler performance is presented in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut

unpredictable and surprisingly inclusive. Powell established his own imprint Diagonal in 2011 and released EPs on Mute’s Liberation Technologies and the Boomkat-affiliated label, Death of Rave.

Ron Morelli us Quietly kicking around the grime of the New York City underground for some time, Ron Morelli started the L.I.E.S. label in 2010, as an outlet to release the music of a tight-knit group of friends who were making challenging music that reflected the musical changes in the underbelly of that city. Morelli is well known for both his demanding (sometimes grinding) DJ style and a punishing work ethic. When time allows, Morelli also produces music under the monikers of L.I.E.S., U-202, Two Dogs in a House (with Steve Summers), and Bad News (with Doug Lee).

Powell uk

Korzo

Powell looks to fuse live instrumentation, destitute samples, raw synth tones and quickfire bursts of analog noise; elements which jostle around sinister, muscular grooves that drift across unconventional rhythmic structures. He takes a pride in merging disparate references into something intense, coherent and unexpected.

Unsurprisingly, Powell’s DJ sets are fast,

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Friday programme

May 1

Shit and Shine us/uk Shit and Shine is a London-based group, comprising of an array of British and American musicians. Its typical line-up has multiple drummers and guitarists, reminiscent of a number of percussive-oriented post-psychedelic bands. Their 2012 LP, ‘Jream Baby Jream’, “continued to investigate the possibility of an electronic dance music that confounds dancers.” This spring, Shit and Shine returns with a new album under the magnificent title of ’54-Synth-Brass 38 Metal Guitar 65 Cathedral‘, on which the group creates a krautrock-meets-minimal wave sound.

Svengalisghost us An enigmatic and witty individual whose music has undergone a series of changes and mutations; SvengalisGhost’s Muse has been mainly driven by a love of legendary DJ Ron Hardy, early House and the 1990s Chicago loft party scene. According to his entertaining biography; “In 2008 he lost all of his music from a malfunctioning external hard drive. Severely distraught he underwent a symbolic death as a studio producer and was reborn as the performer SvengalisGhost: a child of light and magic. He uses hypnotic rhythms and a fork tongue to seduce thru coercion.”

Intriguing stuff.

deliberate misuse of this instrument; using feedback and disruptions in the signal to create dense but finely detailed swarms of sound. His latest LP, ‘Figueroa Terrace’, created music for the original Serge synthesizers at CalArts and was released by the Touch label in 2014. The Quietus said the following about Thomas Ankersmit’s work on the venerable Serge; “Ankersmit makes this ancient beast of an instrument breathe, giving it life and, finally, teeth.”

Thomas Ankersmit exploits a sound phenomenon known as otoacoustic emission, or in-ear tones. These “phantom sounds” are generated by the listeners’ inner ears in response to certain sonic stimuli. The disturbing perception of sounds originating directly in one’s head has the tendency to obliterate any notion of space. In Ankersmit’s performance, in-ear tones and sounds conventionally perceived as coming from the loudspeakers form two intricately linked but distinct musical streams.”

“Thomas Ankersmit is a musician and installation artist who lives and works in Berlin and Amsterdam. Since 2006 Ankersmit has based work round a love of working with the Serge analogue modular synthesizer.

His electronic music is characterized by a 10

Thomas Ankersmit

Thomas Ankersmit presents ‘Eartones’ nl

Friday programme

May 1

Korzo III

330 Live

MGBG fr/is

Organisms nl

MGBG is a collaboration between French composer and sound artist Marie Guilleray and Icelandic composer / sound artist Bjarni Gunnarsson. The duo use fixed-media electronic music, improvised performances, site specific residencies (GRM/Radio France, Studio Loos) field-recordings and sound walks to create their work. Currently the focus is on composed and improvised music; exploring the combination between voice and live electronics.

Organisms are a band from The Hague and Rotterdam who specialise in intelligent, raw and energetic rock, and are noted for their intense and often combustible live shows. Various band members have earned their spurs through playing in other Dutch underground rock bands like Spider Rico and Feverdream. They have worked with Alex Newport (At the DriveIn, Pissed Jeans, The Melvins, Death Cab For Cutie) and the late Corno Zwetsloot (Space Siren).

KORZO OPEN FROM 18:30

DOORS OPEN 20:00

Omer Eilam isr

Tomaga uk UK duo Tomaga draw on a long pedigree of experimental music making; having played in bands like The Oscillation, Neon Neon, and Voice Of Seven Thunders. After their first, self-produced cassette, ‘2013’s Sleepy Jazz For Tired Cats’, Tomaga released their first album, “Futura Grotesk” on the French label, Hands in the Dark.

Tomaga’s minimalist compositions are darkly psychedelic and imaginative; soundtracks for surreal dreams.

Organisms

Modern classical composer Omer Eilam describes himself as a “part musician part biologist residing in Tel-Aviv.” Playing the piano since he was 6, and earning his spurs through playing in various classical and jazz ensembles, Eilam’s work reflects both his classical training and his interest in bringing a scientific approach to music composition.

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Friday programme

May 1

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Friday programme

May 1

Hoop

Musicians De Tuinen Live nl FETTER Live usa/nl 96wrld Live lt Klankman Live nl Yes..PinkPink DjSet nl Stoka Ensemble nl Casperelectronics usa Sima Kim kr

DOORS OPEN 22:00

Fauna x Rewire

Fauna is a young initiative based in The Hague, creating one-night platforms presenting music, art and innovative projects.

Founded to break through the boundaries of existing cultural islands, Fauna aims to outline a space where new creative forms Visual artists find stage and audience.

Gaby Felten nl Leslie Nagel nl For its first installment, Fauna in collabora- Sara Pape García nl tion with Rewire Festival brings a wide array Yara van der Velden nl of Dutch and international musicians for a Mischa Daams nl night dance-oriented sonic explorations.

From the enervating afrobeat rhythms of the Stoka Ensemble to the eerie reverberant vocals of Fetter and acid-inspired clusters of KlankMan, eight live performances join in a unified quest to explore the fringes of academic and club music.

In conjunction to the music program, Fauna also invites young interdisciplinary artists to transform the catacombs of HOOP into an exhibition space where the works collaborate with the musical performances in a joint concert, creating a unique atmosphere alien to the usual nightlife experience.

In biology Fauna is used to describe the diversity of animals in a place or time.

With every edition a geographical biome is chosen as the starting point for the participating artists to reflect on.

This edition’s centre of focus is the Tundra. http://faunalive.com

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Neneh Cherry

Saturday Aïsha Devi Antenna Blue Daisy The Bug Chris Corsano & Mette Rasmussen Cliff Lothar Cloudface The Cult of Dom Keller Dandana DJ Sniff DJ Stingray FilosofischeStilte Garoeda Gerben Louw Gnod HOEK IVVVO Jac Berrocal + David Fenech + Vincent Epplay Jenny Hval & Susanna present ‘Meshes of Voice’

Julianna Barwick Expanded Marsman Mbongwana Star Neneh Cherry & Rocketnumbernine Oren Ambarchi Paul Panhuysen Pearson Sound RP Boo Shabazz Palaces Siinai Tomas Järmyr Unit Moebius Anonymous Yodok III The Void Pointers

Please refer to our separate timetable (online and physical distributed at the venues) for up-to-date showtimes.

May 2

Free Day programme

May 2

Workshops - Idazaal & Korzo Ableton Live + Push: The Voice

Wichelroede

Which musician did not grow up with Ableton Live? Without this revolutionary software, first released in 2001, live electronic music would look very different, or would maybe not exist at all. During the Saturday afternoon programme of Rewire you can discover Ableton Live for yourself, as well as Push, the new controller of Ableton. This year’s theme is the human voice. Two Ableton Live workshops will take place, a beginners workshop and one for more advanced Ableton Live users.

Wichelroede is The Hague’s portal to a combination of new music, art and culture.

During Rewire’s day programme on Saturday 2nd of May, Wichelroede is hosting a stand in Korzo’s foyer, offering a varied selection of electronic vinyl records, cassettes and related products like magazines, t-shirts and stickers.

Artist talks - Korzo III

Voice Manipulation in SuperCollider Artist talk: Saskia Lankhoorn In popular music these days it’s hard to find a voice recording that hasn’t been manipulated in some way. Auto-tune technologies can turn anyone into a bona fide singer. Yet there is so much more that can be done to change the sonic character of voices.

Tijs Ham (STEIM) is a sound artist and live coder and will demonstrate how to write computer programs that alter the human voice. Moving from simple delays to radical granular effects, you will get a glimpse of the huge capabilities of sound manipulation in the audio programming language SuperCollider.

Saskia Lankhoorn will talk about the process of making and recording the Dances & Canons project.

The Wire Q&A Leading independent music magazine The Wire will interview artists from the Rewire programme. Please check the website for the latest details.

Art installation Idazaal basement Tribute to Paul Panhuysen

Vinyl market - Korzo Underbelly Once again, Rewire hosts a shop with books, magazines, records, tapes, films and electronic music toys on both days. In the lounge of Korzo, Underbelly presents a special selection to match the programme.

Following the sad recent death of Paul Panhuysen, one of the Netherlands’ most important pioneers in sound art, Rewire presents a modest tribute. The sound installation, “Requiem for an Unknown Soldier” will be shown , plus a small introduction to his work.

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Free Day programme

12:30 – 18:30

Concerts at Korzo Album Launch Dandana ‘Third Wold Nightclub’ - Dandana nl

Mbongwana Star cd

For the concert from Mbongwana Star a Saturday- or weekend ticket is required.

Mbongwana Star, from Kinshasa – the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo – look to challenge the standard preconceptions around African music.

Mbongwana Star (‘Mbongwana’ meaning ‘change’) fuse traditional Congolese rhythms with post-punk and electronica.

Inspired by life in the townships around them, the band are adept at ‘making FilosofischeStilte nl magic out of garbage’. So says producer FilosofischeStilte is the name of Luuk and band member Doctor L (who also proGraham from The Hague. Starting off as duced Tony Allen’s ‘Black Voices’ album). a rapper, FilosofischeStilte’s sound quickly developed in a different direction via the use of a Commodore 64 and Ninten- Concert at do sounds. Graham is adept at creating Oud Katholieke Kerk a dense, rich sound that incorporates arpeggios, attractive synth samples, and heavy bass lines. FilosofischeStilte plays Chris Corsano & Mette Rasmussen us / dk the support for the Dandana LP release.

A charismatic and incredibly resourceful Screening: Cosmic pulse performer, Chris Corsano is known for his Cosmic pulse is a 23 minute cinematic affirmative and generous take on the art portret of the creation of Third World of drumming. He has collaborated with a Nightclub, the debut album of Dandana. wide range of artists such as Joe McPhee, The process of producing, arranging, Bill Nace and Björk. Danish saxophone recording and mixing took place in the player Mette Rasmussen works in the Womb, an underground soundcave situ- field of improvised music, experimenting ated in an abandoned school building in with the saxophone’s range and capabilThe Hague. The portrait shows the idea ity in sound and expression. Their debut behind the music of Dandana and offers album was recently released by Relative insight into the world of tape machines, Pitch in 2015. rare synths, vintage instruments and analog effects used during the realization of this double 12” vinyl LP. Terming themselves a “coalition” and drawing on socio-countercultural influences (skateboarding culture being their main source of inspiration) the Hague’s Dandana create long, often improvised jams and instrumental passages that nod to funk, soul, African, 70’s psych & electronic music. At Rewire will release their LP ‘ Third World Nightclub’.

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Saturday programme

May 2

E.ON Electriciteitsfabriek

Jenny Hval & Susanna

DOORS OPEN 21:30

Jenny Hval & Susanna no Rewire presents a special live performance by two celebrated Nordic artists, Jenny Hval and Susanna; the latest chapter in an ongoing collaboration that began with an exchange of letters back in 2009. In 2014, Jenny Hval and Susanna released a startling LP, ‘Meshes Of Voice’; a release that draws from both

mythical bestiaries and Maya Deren’s surrealist film from 1943, ‘Meshes of the Afternoon’. The release moved The Quietus to exclaim; “Despite often being a subtle and uncanny work, ‘Meshes Of Voice’ also possesses this destructive quality, a feeling that these styles are rejecting one another”.

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Saturday Saturdayprogramme Programme

May 2 May

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a collaboration with the London-based duo Rocketnumbernine (who performed at Rewire 2012), produced by Four Tet, and Blue Daisy uk featuring a guest appearance by Robyn.

Beatmaker Kwesi Darko, aka Blue Daisy This refreshingly leftfield album received creates music that is futuristic and down- many glowing reviews from many, includbeat, sometimes resembling Burial’s dub- ing The Guardian and Resident Advisor. step or Flying Lotus’ glitch-hop. He was recently signed by the legendary R&S Pearson Sound uk Records. His powerul live show consists of As one third of the team behind the Hessle live beats, electronica and rap.

Audio label, David Kennedy’s Pearson Sound moniker has become synonymous The Bug uk with cutting edge UK dancefloor muSummarizing the work of The Bug (aka: sic. Kennedy has lectured at the Red Bull producer Kevin Martin) is almost impossi- Music Academy in Madrid, released a critble. A member of King Midas Sound and ically praised FABRICLIVE compilation, and the man behind Pathological Records, remixed artists like Radiohead, The xx and Martin can point to an illustriuous cat- M.I.A.. Kennedy’s also found the time to run alogue of remix work (e.g. Grace Jones the vinyl only club night, Acetate, in Leeds. and Einsturzende Neubauten) and work with artists such as Justin Broadrick, Pete RP Boo us “Sonic Boom” Kember, Kevin Shields and Chicago’s RP Boo – a.k.a. Kavain Space is Anti Pop Consortium. The Bug’s first re- an artist that commands a great deal of lease was 1997’s collaboration with DJ respect. He’s cited as one of the origiVadim on ‘Tapping The Conversation’. nators of Footwork, the fast, repetitive, Now on Ninja Tune, The Bug has recently rhythmically syncopated music & dance released 2013’s ‘Filthy EP’, and 2014’s LP, style that originated in Chicago. RP Boo’s ‘Angels and Devils’. The Bug plays Rewire Footwork style is unusual, featuring raps with MC Manga. and dialogue adopted from Juke, often in combination with sharp-edged and inciNeneh Cherry & dental samples; giving some tracks a paraRocketnumbernine se/uk noid atmosphere.. His music is often hectic Neneh Cherry, daughter of freejazz musi- too, looking to psyche-out the listener or cian Don Cherry, is famous for her mega offer challenges to dancers; and it’s this hits ‘Buffalo Stance’ and ‘7 Seconds’ with playful quality, along with his trickster Youssou N’Dour. But she also has a long rhythms and sub, that give RP Boo’s tracks history of working in the undergound. In their unique feel.

2012 she recorded a collaborative album named Cherry Thing with freejazz trio The Thing. Her latest solo album ‘Blank Project’, is her first solo album in 16 years; DOORS OPEN 12:00

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Saturday programme

May 2

Shabazz Palaces us

Korzo II

DOORS OPEN 12:00

Aïsha Devi ch House/techno producer and Danse Noire boss Aïsha Devi Enz is a driven character. This “Swiss-born, half-Tibetan, totally-driven, self-producing avant-garde singer-songwriter” builds on her old “alter ego” Kate Wax’s long-standing fascination with manipulating vocal sounds. Now Devi redirects these spiky, sometimes confrontational explorations in an emotive but very poppy direction.

Boomkat recently wrote of Devi’s ‘Aura 4 Everyone’; “Devi’s emotive vocals are at the centre of a spacious arrangement of crisp, dub-wise percussion, glassy arpeggios and luxuriant nocturnal ambience.”

Shabazz Palaces

The Seattle-based hip-hop experimentalists need little introduction. With two incredibly diverse and inventive LPs under their belt (2011’s ‘Black up’ and 2014’s ‘Lese Majesty’) Ishmael Butler, aka Palaceer Lazaro and Tendai “Baba” Maraire have cemented a reputation for dizzying, genre-defying sounds.

Their label SubPop sees Lese Majesty as a “series of astral suites”.

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May 2

HOEK nl

Vincent Epplay

19-year old, Amsterdam-based Casimir Geelhoed, a.k.a. HOEK, is releasing his first EP ‘Mary’ on Fog Mountain Records in April this year. Title track ‘Mary’ made a big enough impression to get HOEK to play at Rewire. HOEK’s raw and dark dancefloor music may remind you of pioneers such as Andy Stott and Vessel.

Experimental artist and musician Vincent Epplay has collaborated with Sebastien Roux on the film soundtrack for Nanook

by Robert Flaherty, and the Centre Pompidou for Jean Painlevé’s movies. He performs regularly with Samon Takahashi.

Epplay’s work has been published on labels such as Stembogen, and LDDR.

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David Fenech

IVVVO, a.k.a. Portugal’s Ivo Pacheco has teamed up with Swiss label Danse Noire to release ‘Theories of Anxiety’ EP, a record that adds to IVVVO’s previous sonic gymnastics on the Public Information, Opal Tapes, and Fourth Wave labels. Fact Magazine describes ‘Theories of Anxiety’ as “tape-warped techno that — despite divergent techniques and approaches — are united by an uneasiness that bubbles under the surface.”

Parisian David Fenech has played and recorded with musicians such as Felix Kubin, Jad Fair, Tom Cora, Rhys Chatham and Shugo Tokumaru. His baroque style has been described as ‘a kind of punk musique concrète’. Fenech’s home studio – the Superdisque recording project – is an instrument in its own right.

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Oren Ambarchi is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who has a longstanding inJac Berrocal + David Fenech terest in transcending conventional instru+ Vincent Epplay fr mental approaches. His work focuses mainly This French avant-garde super-group re- round exploring the potential of the electric lease their LP, ‘Antigravity’ on the Blackest guitar. The Wire described the results as; Ever Black label. “re-routing the instrument into a zone of alien abstraction where it’s no longer easily Jac Berrocal identifiable as itself. Instead, it’s a laboratory Famous for ‘Rock and Roll Station’ (record- for extended sonic investigation.” ed with Vince Taylor), Parisian trumpeter Jac Berrocal has also played with artists RSS B0YS pl such as Pascal Comelade, Jaki Liebezeit The stories behind RSS B0YS are intrigu(Can), Nurse With Wound, Sunny Murray, ing. Anonymous travelling musicians, B0y Jacques Thollot, James Chance, Pierre 0ne and B0y Tw0 apparently met, and Bastien, Aki Onda, and Lol Coxhill. formed RSS B0YS in Benin. Regardless of the duo’s roots, they have been incredibly productive over the past three years; with

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four enervating, eclectic, avant-garde LPs (released on Mik Musik) and two tapes to their name; the most recent being the double LP ‘HDDN’ a split with Mik and the BDTA label. Their music follows their motto: ‘Freedom of choice is kind of important. From African deserts to European dancefloors’. Indeed.

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Yodok III is a collaboration between three avant-garde and boundary-breaking musicians; Norway’s Kristoffer Lo (amplified tuba), Sweden’s Tomas Järmyr (drums) and Belgium’s Dirk Serries (guitar). Tomas Järmyer and Kristoffer Lo are the backbone of Yodok, and have previously released avant-garde, experimental records that also incorporate elements of genres as diverse as jazz, (post)rock and classical.

Serries joined the duo in 2014, and together the trio released the eponymous debut LP on Tonefloat’s A New Wave Of Jazz imprint. The follow-up, the epic double LP, ‘The Sky Flashed, The Great Sea Yarns’ is a set of 4 improvised pieces recorded over the course of 3 days in Brussels. ‘The Sky Flashed, The Great Sea Yarns’ was released in January 2015.

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Born 1987 in Sweden, Tomas Järmyr is currently based in Oslo, and teaches at the Jazz Conservatory in Oslo. With one foot in rock/metal and the other in jazz/improv, Järmyr’s drumming combines wild creativity with extreme energy and presence. He has a plethora of projects that defy categorizing; but operate within a vast range of genres from free jazz through death metal and progressive metal, to hardcore and electronica.

Yodok III no/se/ne

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May 2

Korzo III

Hoop I

DJ Sniff jp

Antenna nl

DJ Sniff (aka Takuro Mizuta Lippit) is described as a “turntable musician working in the field of improvised and experimental music.” Takuro’s work looks to conjure up ideas of time and place; something that is reflected in the text on the back of his release, ‘EP’: “With every scratch, our memory of a past is suspended and we hear and here the now.” To do this, he has created a unique setup of custom hardware and software along with one turntable and DJ mixer.

Drawing inspiration in the early, free-spirited, “anything goes” days of house music, Antenna creates exciting, off-the-cuff mixes of jacking house and wave for labels like Pinkman. There is no pre-recorded material, no random visuals and no apple logos to be seen during an Antenna live set.

Rather, Antenna’s set is built up courtesy of an MPC2000 and a Juno; all fed through a saturated analog circuit.

The Void Pointers

A veteran of the early Cybernetic Broadcasting System scene, Cliff Lothar’s reputation was forged by 2013’s ‘White Savage’ EP, released on Viewlexx. This release and the follow up, ‘Skudge White 05’ were praised by the likes of John Talabot, Claude Young, Thom Yorke and Anthony “Shake” Shakir; who described Lothar’s music as “sinister, dark and funky”. A recent collaboration with Legowelt – under the name Pagan Sector – resulted in the ravetechno-deephouse hybrid EP, ‘Hermopolis Magna’, released on Amsterdam’s Knekelhuis.

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The Void Pointers are Roald van Dillewijn, Tijs Ham and Eric Magnée. Modifying instruments for improvised acousmatic music is the band’s forte, and an incredibly diverse one; from modifying guitars and flutes, to setting up a six piece ensemble for string and electronics. During their performances, The Void Pointers focus on building timbral walls of sound, that can sound enervating and challenging. They performed at the Gaudeamus Muziekweek and the (h)ear festival amongst others.

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Marsman nl Marsman is a gigging DJ and the owner-come-spiritual-guide of Rotterdam’s Pinkman label. His seductive, sensual music shouldn’t be overlooked in all of this activity, however. Using wave as a starting point, his work encompasses crunched up house and mashed techno cuts to create smooth, patient work-outs that lean towards the spiritual.

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Sherard Ingram has been a force in Detroit’s electronic music scene for thirty years. He has worked alongside Moodymann, Carl Craig and Anthony ‘Shake’ Shakir (making Urban Tribe’s 1998 LP, ‘Collapse of Modern Culture’) and as tour DJ for Drexciya (where he gained the moniker DJ Stingray, just before James Stinson’s death in 2003). Known for creating expansive hip-hop/house LPs like ‘Drexciyan Connection , and 2013’s ‘F.T.N.W.O.’, Stingray’s Fact magazine mix is also seen as one of the best Detroit electro mixes ever made. According to Ingram, the mix was a “micro version” of his live set.

First there was Unit Moebius; the legendary industrial-acid techno act released on Bunker Records, beloved of Aphex Twin and and cornerstone of the notorious Acid Planet nights. Unit Moebius Anonymous is the latest chapter in the story; one dating from 2007 when the key player from the band, Jan Duivenvoorden, started producing and playing live again. For any techno fan, seeing Unit Moebius Anonymous is an absolute must.

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Cloudface ca Emerging from Vancouver’s Mood Hut collective Cloudface (aka David Reynolds) has released two records to date; 2012’s EP ‘Wyre Drive’ (first as a cassette on Nice Up Intl, re-released on UK label Going Good) and debut long player ‘Devonian Garden’, on Mood Hut Records. Both are examples of ambient, contemplative techno that also boast lush passages of sound. Fact Magazine said that the LP boasted “gorgeous anaesthetised melodies” that had something of Cluster about them.

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Gerben Louw nl Gerben Louw runs Wichelroede.net together with Fallon, a website that publishes a vast array of new electronic music, and sells music and related cultural items through the Wichelroede Shop.

With a versatile taste in music, Gerben is always searching for new sounds to incorporate in his surprising and varied djsets. Gerben is also closely associated and involved with Creme Organization, home for artists such as Legowelt, and Orgue Electronique.

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Born and raised in The Hague, Sameer. aka Garoeda, is part of a new generation of talented producers from that city. Still in his early twenties, Garoeda

is quickly developing his grainy, ambient-meets-house sound; inspired by innovators such as Huerco S. In 2014, he released two mixes through Wichelroede (in total over 120 minutes of original material). Garoeda will make his first ever club-debut during Rewire, playing a dj-set in the Wichelroede showcase.

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Rewire have invited Julianna Barwick to present Julianna Barwick Expanded. A live performance featuring Maarten Vos and four vocalists. The live material consists of her latest two albums ‘Nepenthe’ and ‘The Magic Place’.

Psych is something of an overused, “catchall” term, but it is one that fits The Cult Of Dom Keller perfectly. Boasting an accessible and poppy sound that draws comparison with Spacemen 3 and the Jesus & Mary Chain, the band also draw on the experience of true psych luminaries such as Julian Cope’s guitarist, Doggen.

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Gnod uk Gnod are a free/cosmic rock and proto-anarchist collective from Salford, Greater Manchester, UK. Formed in 2006, and subject to an ever-rotating (sometimes rejoining) cast of like-minded musical experimentalists, the band has steadily built up a reputation for dramatic live shows and uncompromising musical statements. Gnod works closely with the artists at the infamous Islington Mill Art Academy in Salford, where the band also curated ‘Tangent’, one of sound artist Callum Higgins’ immersive and disorienting happenings.

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Finland’s Siinai are an underground supergroup of sorts, boasting members from Joensuu 1685, Zebra and Snake & Äänijännite. Siiani’s sound is an exciting mix of ambient, prog and Krautrock. Their recent album ‘Supermarket’, looks to create (in the band’s own words) ‘a soundtrack for the supermarket nations.’

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Getting There Trains run through the day to Den Haag Central Station or Den Haag Holland Spoor.

On Friday and Saturday after midnight trains will run every hour from Den Haag HS to Amsterdam, Utrecht, Leiden, Schiphol, Delft, Rotterdam, Dordrecht, Breda, Tilburg, Eindhoven and ’s Hertogenbosch. Check www.ns.nl. You can take tram 17 to the festival from Den Haag Central Station and Den Haag HS. With tram 17, Get out at stop Gravenstraat, Walk further from there, the street to your right before the post office is the Prinsestraat, the street where the festival’s main location Korzo Theatre is located.

You could also take a 20-minute walk from one of the train stations.

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Tickets

Tickets are available online at rewirefestival.nl and at our registrationdesk at the Ida Zaal, Prinsestraat 37.

Pricing (ex fees) Regular Weekend Tickett Friday Ticket or Saturday Ticket Saturday Club Ticket

€39,95 €28,00 €15,00

Venue Tickets Individual Godspeed You! Black Emperor Ticket Fauna at Hoop 330 Live with Gnod, Siinai, Cult of Dom Keller

€25,00 € 5,00 €10,00

*CJP members get €3,50 discount on Weekend and Day tickets.

Ticket Registration If you bought a ticket, you can change your e-ticket for a Rewire Festival wristband at the Idazaal (across Korzo), address: Prinsestraat 37. The wristband will grant you access to all the festival venues. Ticket desk opening hours: Friday 18:00 – 00:00 / Saturday 13:00 – 00:00. The Korzo ticket desk will be open until 03:00.

Local Food Tips There are some fine restaurants close to the festival. For you convenience we’ve made a list of some restaurants close to the festival site.

Floc Restaurant: Next to Korzo, quality restaurant, Prinsestraat 42A Eethuis Dayang: Indonesian takeaway restaurant, Wagenstraat 92 Oni Japanese Dining: Japanese Venue tickets (Godspeed You! Black restaurant, Prinsestraat 35 Emperor, Fauna, 330 Live) can be ex- Bij HeM: Cafe/Restaurant, changed at the door.

Molenstraat 21 Burgerz: The name says it all, Prinsestraat 23 Noh Restaurant: Sushi and more, Prinsestraat 77 For the latest festival updates, please Hanting Cuisine: High quality check www.rewirefestival.nl restaurant, Prinsestraat 33

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Credits

Rewire 2015 Festival management & development Bronne Keesmaat Festival director Joya de Bock Office manager

Programming Bronne Keesmaat Festival curator Bas Ackermann, Martijn Buser, Rogier Thomson Curatorial advisers

Marketing & communications Bas van den Broeke Head of marketing & communications Mink Steekelenburg Intern marketing & communications Richard Foster Content editor

Production Siuli Ko Head of production Rogier Thomson Artist production Moritz Geremus Assistant production manager

Volunteers coordination & education Joya de Bock Education coordinator Annelieke Plugge Education coordinator

Design Daan Spangenberg Graphic design Basten Stokhuyzen Web development

Thanks We would like to thank all of our partners for their continuous support.

Also a big shout out to our amazing team of volunteers, and of course thank you!

Rewire Festival 2015 is organized and presented by Stichting Unfold in cooperation with Korzo. Š 2015 Rewire Festival / Stichting Unfold Disclaimer Although we always try to ensure editorial completeness, we may have missed certain copyright issues.

If you spot something of yours that we used drop us an email and we will credit you for the picture. pr@rewirefestival.nl - P.O. Box 243 2501 CE The Hague.

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