Rewire Festival is an annual international festival for adventurous music, held since 2011 in The Hague , Netherlands . The festival presents a broad program with a focus on contemporary electronic music, neo-classical, new jazz, experimental pop, sound art and multidisciplinary collaborations. It has featured artists such as Laurie Anderson , James Holden , Godspeed You! Black Emperor , Ricardo Villalobos , Arca & Jesse Kanda , Nils Frahm , Animal Collective , Nina Kraviz , and The Field (the band) . The 2019 edition took place on March 29, 30 and 31. Venues differ from churches, old factories and abandoned spaces to the more institutional theatres and pop venues. According to Resident Advisor "[The festival] prides itself on musical diversity first and foremost."
26-1135: Besides the festival, the organization is focussing on presenting several other affiliated activities year round. Rewire 2024 33EMYBW & Joey Holder / Aïsha Devi / Alabaster DePlume / Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones / Amor Muere / Andrius Arutiunian / Annea Lockwood / Arushi Jain / Astrid Sonne / Atelier Impopulaire with Blacks' Myths / Aunty Rayzor / Autechre / Beans / Ben Frost feat. Greg Kubacki & Tarik Barri / Ben Vida with Yarn/Wire & Nina Dante / Blacks' Myths / Brìghde Chaimbeul / Brother May / Carl Gari & Abdullah Miniawy / Carmen Jaci / Caz Egelie & Jesse Strikwerda ‘A Staged Slumber’ / Cello Octet Amsterdam & Nick Verstand / Chuquimamani-Condori / Clara de Asís / Cole Pulice / comforter2 / Concepción Huerta / Crystallmess / Deli Girls / Devon Rexi / Dialect / FUMU / Gazelle Twin / goat (jp) / Gordan / H31R / Henk & Melle ‘Baumhaus’ / Henk Schut ‘Lost Sound’ / HHY & The Macumbas / HiTech / HUUUM / Iceboy Violet / Jeanine Verloop / Jenny Hval / Jlin & Florence To / Julia Holter / Ka Baird / Kaðlín Sara Ólafsdóttir / Keeley Forsyth / Laura Ortman / Lila Tirando
52-487: A '60s jukebox standard playing in a beach town diner during the off-season." The album was released in February 2019 on the independent labels Mexican Summer and City Slang. It was the first one recorded in a proper studio which provided a crystalline sound. Pitchfork states the album "warps the typically direct, observational role of a singer-songwriter into something altogether more mystifying". After writing throughout
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104-490: A complicated relationship to Christianity and conservative politics," noted Quinn Moreland in a 2024 New York Times profile on Pratt. "Her family was comparatively freewheeling: Her mother, who raised her, was an astrologer and music obsessive. Pratt began writing songs as soon as she learned a few rudimentary chords, penning impressionistic songs inspired by the Incredible String Band and Leonard Cohen on
130-616: A conversation with sculptor Walter Wincha . Three Short Stories and Apotheosis (1985) used what Lockwood named the Soundball, which was a foam-covered ball made of six small speakers and a radio receiver. The impetus for this unusual piece of equipment was to "put sound into the hands of the dancers." She also works with the sounds of water. In the 1990s, her pieces were written for acoustic-electric instruments and incorporated multi-media and indigenous instruments. Thousand Year Dreaming (1991) used four didgeridoos and blends images of
156-630: A faculty role at Hunter College . She worked with environmental sounds, capturing them and building developed compositions around an environmental inspiration, as in A Sound Map of the Hudson River (1982) and World Rhythms (1975). She also built on the archetypes and conversations with significant people, as in Conversations with the Ancestors (1979), composed on conversations with four women in their 80s; and Delta Run (1982) based on
182-486: A lyrical and musical range without straying from a palette of picked acoustic guitar and raw, bending vocals" and nods to "60s folk, California classic rock , and the early 2000s freak folk ." She is compared to various folk artists, including Joni Mitchell , Joan Baez , Sibylle Baier , David Crosby and Karen Dalton . She also expressed admiration for Ariel Pink . Pratt dislikes the Joan Baez comparisons, and
208-413: A new track, "Game That I Play." In October 2014, Pratt announced her second album, On Your Own Love Again . Pratt toured extensively around this record, both as a headliner and in support of Beach House, Panda Bear and José Gonzáles. On Your Own Love Again would eventually be ranked at #85 of Pitchfork ' s Best Albums of the 2010s. "Back, Baby" appeared in the first episode of season three of
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260-413: A thrift store nylon string guitar." After she moved to San Francisco , she was introduced to Tim Presley's solo project, White Fence, through Presley's brother, who was her roommate for three years. In the following years, Presley heard Pratt's demo songs through her then-boyfriend, who had posted her songs on Facebook. He eventually contacted her to release her music. Pratt's self-titled debut album
286-432: Is a New Zealand -born American composer and academic musician. She taught electronic music at Vassar College . Her range is vast and often includes microtonal, electro-acoustic soundscapes and vocal music, as well as recordings of natural found sounds . She has also recorded Fluxus -inspired pieces involving burning or drowning pianos. Lockwood studied composition and completed a Bachelor of Music with honours from
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#1732791030955312-501: Is an emeritus professor at Vassar College , where she has worked since 1982. Former students include Jonathan Elliott . Jessica Pratt (musician) Jessica Pratt (born April 24, 1987) is an American musician and singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles , California. Her self-titled debut album was released in 2012 via Birth Records, a record label founded by White Fence songwriter Tim Presley to release Pratt's music. She
338-471: Is hesitant about being classified strictly as "folk" or "freak-folk." In an interview with Impose magazine, she stated on the freak folk comparisons: I think anybody has an opposition to being pigeonholed into semi-trendy music genres. I definitely love a lot of those artists. There have been comparisons to people like Joan Baez [who] plays very straight-forward folk music, almost academic folk music. I've written so much new material that I'm almost ready for
364-514: Is often associated with the freak folk movement. Her second and third albums are On Your Own Love Again (2015) ( Drag City ) and Quiet Signs (2019) ( Mexican Summer / City Slang ). She released her fourth album, Here in the Pitch , in 2024. Pratt was raised by her mother, who exposed her to a broad range of artists, including Tim Buckley , X , and the Gun Club . She learned to play
390-559: The Lascaux Cave as part of the performance. In 2002, she began working on A Sound Map of the Danube River , which gathered sounds recorded from a variety of sites on the surface of, within, and around the river. Lockwood's work has been presented at festivals around the world. Her piece Piano Burning has been replicated multiple times, including as the closing track of the 2019 album There Existed An Addiction To Blood by
416-658: The New York Times on her intentions throughout the writing and recording process, which spanned from 2020 to 2023. In February 2024, she released a video for a new track titled "Life Is" which served as the lead single for her first new album in five years. Here in the Pitch , was released on May 3, 2024, via Mexican Summer and City Slang , to universal acclaim. "Her chords are crisper, her singing more concrete and commanding, occasionally imagining echoes of lost Bowie or Beatles ballads aside her twilight bossa nova grooves," wrote Jen Pelly for NPR . Pitchfork awarded
442-982: The University of Canterbury . Her composition studies continued with Peter Racine Fricker at the Royal College of Music from 1961 to 1963; with Gottfried Michael Koenig at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse from 1963 to 1964; and at the Hochschule für Musik Köln . She also studied in the Netherlands . Lockwood settled in London in 1964. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Lockwood performed and composed around Europe. Her compositions featured non-conventional instruments such as glass tubing used in The Glass Concert (1967). This
468-1508: The Dark / Nathan Fake / Nils Petter Molvær & Moritz von Oswald / Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer present Re:ECM live / Seams / Stellar OM Source / Still Serious Nic / Tape / The KVB / Traxx / Valgeir Sigurðsson Rewire 2012 Alberto Novello a.k.a. JesterN / Alex Smoke presents Wraetlic / Black Rain / Deaf Center / DIIV / Errors / Filosofische Stilte /Handsome Thomas & Still Serious Nic / Henry Vega & Anat Spiegel / H-SIK / Halls / Jacob 2-2 / Juffage / Kangding Ray / Knalpot / Kreng / Laurel Halo / Legowelt / Lichens / Lotus Plaza / Lukid / Mark du Mosch / Micachu & The Shapes / Nosaj Thing [cancelled] / Palmbomen live / patten / Pete Swanson / Presk / Rocketnumbernine / Shackleton / Some Clouds / Stelios Manousakis / Torus / Xosar / Young Magic Rewire 2011 Andy Stott / Applescal / Bomb Diggy Crew / Comfort Fit / Dagga Dagga / Daniel Haaksman / Dirty Beaches / Dorian Concept / Eklin / Holy Other / Hype Williams / I am Oak / Juha / Kuedo / Martyn / Narain Ashad / Nils Frahm & Anne Müller / oOoOO / Patrice Bäumel / Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek / Plaid / Rustie / Sylvain Chauveau / Tonik / Tropics / Vondelpark / Walls / Washed Out Annea Lockwood Annea Lockwood (born July 29, 1939, in Christchurch , New Zealand)
494-596: The album a Best New Music designation and an 8.8 score, stating Pratt's "fourth album of hypnagogic folk music hones her mysterious song to its finest point." The lead single from the record, "Life Is," concluded Chanel's Fall-Winter 2024/25 Haute Couture Show. She performed the song with her band on The Late Show in July 2024. On August 2, 2024, she featured on the single " Highjack " from ASAP Rocky 's upcoming fourth studio album Don't Be Dumb . According to Philip Cosores of Consequence of Sound , Pratt's music "displays
520-494: The experimental hip-hop group clipping. She has received the Henry Cowell Award (2007) and was featured in the short documentary Annea Lockwood / a Film About Listening (2021) and live documentary 32 Sounds (2022), both directed by Sam Green . Her recordings are currently distributed by Lovely , XI, ?What Next?/OO Discs, Rattle Records (NZ), Harmonia Mundi , Earth Ear, CRI , and Finnadar/Atlantic. Lockwood
546-484: The guitar around the age of 15, after her older brother gave up playing his Stratocaster . She took his guitar and started practicing with the 1971 T. Rex album Electric Warrior . She was soon able to play the guitar parts of the whole record. She eventually began recording songs at the age of 16, using her mother's Fender guitar amp and microphone. "Pratt grew up in Redding, a small Northern California city with
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598-473: The pandemic, Pratt returned to Gary's Electric with Quiet Signs co-producer Al Carlson, Matt McDermott and session musicians including Spencer Zahn and Mauro Refosco, this time influenced by Beach Boys' Pet Sounds and the music of the '60s group the Walker Brothers. "I've always been very interested in that micro era of '60s pop music where the production is atmospheric like a snow globe," she told
624-472: The show Atlanta , and was sampled by Troye Sivan on his 2023 album, Something to Give Each Other . In October 2018, she announced her third album, Quiet Signs , and released a video for a new track entitled "This Time Around". Pitchfork reviewed the song, giving it the Best New Music designation and noting a stylistic shift, comparing it to "a Tropicalia version of a Christmas song, or
650-767: Was published in Source: Music of the Avant Garde then recorded and released by Tangent Records. Her series Piano Transplants utilized burning, drowning, or planting pianos in locations across the United Kingdom and United States. In the 1970s, Lockwood began to compose music that could be classified as performance art pieces, as the essence of the compositional ideas made the audience and environment agents in one piece. She collaborated with various choreographers, sound poets, and visual artists. In 1973, Lockwood relocated to New York City after being offered
676-412: Was released in 2012 through Presley's label, Birth Records. The album featured the songs that were originally recorded in 2007 over analogue tape . The initial 500 pressings of the album sold out in less than two weeks. It received attention from many music websites and magazines, including Pitchfork , Consequence of Sound and PopMatters . In January 2014, she revealed the studio version of
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