Rewire 2026 marks the sixth edition of Proximity Music, a joint exhibition programme by Rewire and iii - Instrument Inventors, exploring the intersections of music, architecture, technology, ritual, and play through immersive, multisensory installations. Running from 9 to 12 April, this year’s programme – Proximity Music: The Ongoing Hum – takes place across multiple venues in The Hague’s city centre, and features newly commissioned and adapted works by multidisciplinary artists.

Humming the Ubique
The uni­ver­se is per­me­a­ted with electromagnetic energies that cannot be perceived with human sen­ses, such as infra­so­nic sound, ultra­vi­o­let light or cos­mic radi­a­ti­on. Sensors distributed throughout the installation record a spectrum of electromagnetic activity: from the city to outer space. This activity is translated into artificial voices and 64 luminous colour fields through a mosaic of wafer-thin foils. The electromagnetic phenomena speak in a register one can understand instinctively, thus letting them experience the complexity and layering of the immediate, everyday environment.

Aernoudt Jacobs is a Belgian artist working primarily with the medium of sound. His work has its origins in acoustic and technological research and investigates how sounds can trigger sonic processes that will affect the observer's scope of perception. His work focuses on a central question: how can one experience the complexity, richness, and stratification of their direct, daily environment? 

Rewire 2026

wilderness - Thirteen disposable plastic shopping bags playfully dance in the gallery space articulated by wave data collected on a voyage across the Pacific Ocean.

Data for this installation was collected as artist at sea resident aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute Research Vessel Falkor as it transited from Astoria, Oregon to Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2019. While in the middle of the enormous ocean, at times, it felt this place was completely untouched by human activities. This delusion was destroyed by the occasional piece of human made debris floating in this vast wilderness. Using an on-board accelerometer, every movement of the ship caused by wave action was collected during the entire journey. The Z movement data is directly mapped to the movements of the bags floating in the gallery space creating the effect that the bags are suspended in waves of the Pacific.

In collaboration with Ars Electronica

David Bowen

Oscillation ::: from the Mothership focuses on the technologies, tools, and techniques that are an important part of the apparatus of music-making. The festival departs from the observation that cultures are shaped by the way technologies are used, rather than by the intention behind their design. But while technologies might be invented with a certain goal for use in mind and against a backdrop of specific socio-political situations, this junction can be severed and new constellations and findings can emerge. Historically, new technologies have in this way often opened up spaces for marginalised or excluded artists to realise their music without constraints such as manuals or a canon.

The Endless Speaker by Aernoudt Jacobs
What happens to our perception when a speaker takes on a radically different form? The Endless Speaker is a spatial sound installation using a long, single continuous speaker foil. A voice-based composition is amplified along its entire length, creating a planar acoustic field rather than a point source. The installation explores both spatial unfolding and temporal continuity of sound by investigating how distance, movement, and material geometry can shape our perception. The work is set up in different forms and shapes—each transforming how sound is experienced, shaping both the sonic and visual dimensions of the installation.

Aernoudt Jacobs
Oscillation Festival
QO-2 - workspace for experimental music and sound art

1 DROP 1000 YEARS - Scientists agree that a drop of water travels the globe in less than 1,000 years. This drop shapes our world: it transports nutrients, heat and living organisms, while regulating our planet's climate and ecosystems. It contributes to the fundamental process of life's equilibrium.

Drawing on data from the Global Conveyor Belt, the vast ocean current that orchestrates the mixing of water from the five oceans and redistributes heat on a global scale, Martin Messier underlines the fundamental role of water as a vital substance. Yet, over the past two centuries, human action has been shaking this fragile balance: the gradual slowing of this ocean current could trigger a major climatic upheaval, threatening the entire chain of life.

In this hypnotic performance, the artist explores the tensions between the global currents that drive planetary equilibrium, and the intimate currents that resonate within each of us. Fifteen suspended devices, veritable kinetic sculptures, orchestrate the flow of water particles in real time, materializing oceanic dynamics. The patterns generated, fed by data such as the temperature and salinity of the Pacific Ocean, intertwine in a visual and sonic choreography. 1 drop 1000 years reveals itself as a masterful, poetic ballet, conveying the fragility of ecosystems and the delicate harmony that binds all things on Earth.

Martin Messier 
1 DROP 1000 YEARS
Mapping Festival

Organism: In Turbulence
Solo concert with a century-old pipe organ prepared robotically to sound turbulent formations.

“Organism destabilizes the socio-historical tonality of a century-old organ to liberate its turbulent materiality, robotically unleashing timbres unheard after centuries of sonic repression. In concerts, Organism’s shifting metastable states allow for its energetic thresholds to fall into and out of compatibility with one another. Navab aerodynamically shapes the resulting ecology of interdependent timbres into emergent realms, traversing microsonic polyrhythms, post-rock overspill and swampy soundscapes.” – Navid Navab

Concert: Navid Navab – Organism: In Turbulence - Set 1
15.05.2026 at 22:00

Concert: Navid Navab - Organism: In Turbulence - Set 2
16.05.2026 at 21:30

Curated by Dietmar Lupfer – a collaboration between the Munich Biennale 2026 and Muffatwerk Munich

The Münchener Biennale – Festival for New Music Theatre – celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2026! 
Numerous international composers are confronting the complexities of our present-day in a bold and experimental manner, alert to the contradictions of our time. Together with their artistic teams they create music-theatre worlds that sharpen our gaze, fuel resistance, and give us hope; they connect us and solicit conversation about unforeseen ways of watching and listening. 

Navid Navab