
Grant Programme for Festivals → Festival
Rewire 2021
Stichting Unfold, 2020
€62.000
Rewire is an annual international festival that focuses on innovative music and sound art. The festival presents a broad programme with a focus on the artistic vanguard in contemporary electronic music, new jazz, experimental pop, sound art and modern composed music. The festival also stimulates crossovers with other art disciplines. (Re)Setting is the overarching theme of Rewire 2021. This theme explores the way society, sound and technology relate to a constantly changing and evolving world. Climate change, new technological developments, new scientific discoveries and political shifts, but also everyday changes on an individual scale. (Re)Setting would have been the central theme during the cancelled edition of Rewire 2020. The theme has only gained in importance since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. For this reason, it was decided to explore the theme further and make new connections with the 'new' world we live in today. The festival programme includes concerts/interdisciplinary performances, (educational) workshops, sound walks, film screenings, (sound) installations, site-specific compositions throughout the city and a music hackspace. The discourse programme includes a collection of essays with in-depth texts by leading international critics, followed by panel discussions with the relevant makers and the artist talks. The organization works together with various national and international cultural, media and educational partners, such as the Royal Conservatoire, Studio Loos, iii, West, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, The Grey Space In The Middle, Korzo, Manchester International Festival (UK), Music Hackspace, and many others. The tenth edition of Rewire festival will take place from Thursday 8 to Sunday 11 April 2021 at over 20 locations in The Hague and also online for a global audience.
€62.000