Edwin van der Heide is an artist and researcher in the field of sound, space and interaction. He extends the terms composition and musical language into spatial, interactive and interdisciplinary directions. His work comprises installations, performances and environments. The audience is placed in the middle of the work and challenged to actively explore, interact and relate themselves to the artwork.
He has presented his work at renown museums and festivals as SMAK - Ghent, Ars Electronica Festival - Linz, Stedelijk Museum - Amsterdam, V2_'s DEAF - Rotterdam, ICC - Tokyo, NAMOC - Beijing, Transmediale - Berlin, SONAR - Barcelona, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, SFMOMA, FILE - Brazil and SONAMBIENTE - Berlin.
Beside’s running his own studio he's part-time assistant professor at Leiden University (LIACS / Media Technology MSc programme) and heading the Spatial Interaction Lab at the ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Conservatoire and Arts Academy in The Hague. He was Edgard Varèse guest professor at the Technische Universität Berlin (2009), won the Witteveen+Bos Art+Technology Award 2009 for his entire body of work and is currently an invited artist at Le Fresnoy, studio des arts contemporain in France.
Internships
Currently we offer a couple of internship positions in the field of digital media design, software development, electrical engineering, art management, etc.
March 17th 2012 - January 6th, 2013
Sound Art - Klang als Medium der Kunst, ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Opening Overtone Facade, permanent installation as part of the new facade of V2_organisation
appr. Sept 2012
V2_, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
DSLE -3- (premiere)
June 2nd - July 22nd, 2012
Panorama 14, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France
May 11th - May 20th, 2012
LICHTSTRÖME 2012, Koblenz, Germany
Shape -V2- live electronic performance
May 19th, 2012
DEAF (Dutch Electronic Art Festival), V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Spatial Sounds (100dB at 100km/h)
September 22nd, 2011 - April 29th, 2012
Expérience Pommery #9 - LA FABRIQUE SONORE, Vranken Pommery, Reims, France
Keynote Performance: LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
Februay 20th, 2012
TEI 2012 Conference, Queens University, Kingston, Canada
February 17th & 18th, 2012
MOIS MULTI 13, Quebec, Canada
November 17th - November 27th, 2011
STRP Festival, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Spatial Sounds (100dB at 100km/h)
November 17th - November 27th, 2011
STRP Festival, Eindhoven, Netherlands
November 17th - November 27th, 2011
STRP Festival, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Shape -CS- 8 channel composition
November 13th, 2011
Cineac Sonore, November Music, Den Bosch, The Netherlands
Live performance
October 21st, 2011
L’AUDIBLE FESTIVAL, Instants Chavires, Paris, France
October 14th - October 16th, 2011
Kontraste, Krems, Austria
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
October 14th, 2011
Kontraste, Krems, Austria
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
October 12th, 2011
Festival Scopitone, Nantes, France
DSLE -1- CineChamber module version
October 7th, 8th, 9th, 2011
RML CineChamber at Musik Protokoll, Graz, Austria
DSLE -1- live performance
October 6th, 2011
RML CineChamber at Musik Protokoll, Graz, Austria
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
September 30th, 2011
SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Book: Site of Sound #2: Of Architecture and the Ear
Edited by Brandon LaBelle & Claudia Martinho
With contributions by Justin Bennett, Usman Haque, David Schafer, James Webb, Edwin van der Heide, Raviv Ganchrow, Jodi Rose, Nigel Helyer, Michael Gendreau, Jean-Paul Thibaud, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, Oliver Laric, David Stalling / Anthony Kelly, Romano, Natasha Barrett / Birger Sevaldson, Scott Arford / Randy Yau, Riccardo Benassi, Carrie Bodle, Jenny Pickett / Julien Ottavi, Pascal Broccolichi, Jacob Kreutzfeldt, Joaquín Gutiérrez Hadid, Franz Pomassl & Björn Quiring.
July 26th - August 17th, 2011
TransLife: Media Art China 2011, NAMOC, Beijing, China
review: New York Times
a project by the Spatial Interaction Lab of the ArtScience Interfaculty
June 18th - August 20th, 2011
Corrosia! Ongehoord, Almere, Netherlands
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
July 14th, 2011
ArtFutura 2011 at Alhondiga Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Symposium: Geluid Nader Bekeken with Ina Boiten, Cilia Eerens, Edwin van der Heide, Jorrit Tamminga - Bart van Rosmalen
July 3rd, 2011
Corrosia!, Almere, Netherlands
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
June 20th, 2011
Echo Digital Conference 2011 at The Sage Gateshead performance program curated by AV FESTIVAL, Newcastle, UK
Symposium: Listen - Perspectives on Auditive Space
May 20th, 2011
Festival van Vlaanderen, Budascoop, Kortrijk, Belgium
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
April 23rd, 2011
ART-ISSUE gallery, Beijing, China
Death Fragments - Buchner, 23 years old
April 16, 17, 19 and 20th, 2011
Theater Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
V2_'s Curious Corner vol.1: Edwin van der Heide
Q & A with Edwin van der Heide by V2_'s online followers
Onder Stroom - Jacqueline Oskamp
Book on the History of Electronic Music in The Netherlands
including portraits of Dick Raaijmakers, Jan Boerman,Ton Bruynel, Michel Waisvisz, Anne La Berge and Edwin van der Heide
Evolving Spark Network - live performance
March 31st, 2011
Test_Lab, V2_organisation, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Evolving Spark Network (premiere)
March 5th (Museum Night) and March 8th - March 13th, 2011
Museum Night - Rotterdam / V2_organisation, Rotterdam, Netherlands
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
March 5th, 2011
Museum Night - Rotterdam, Museumpark (Kunsthal side), Rotterdam, Netherlands
January 28th - February 6th, 2011
Collegium Hongaricum Berlin / Transmediale, Berlin, Germany
DSLE -1- CineChamber live performance
February 5th
RML CineChamber at Club Transmediale, Berlin, Germany
DSLE -1- CineChamber module version
February 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th, 2011
RML CineChamber at Club Transmediale, Berlin, Germany
Evolving Spark Network (preview)
November 26th, 2010 - February 6th, 2011
NIMK / Montevideo, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Live performance
January 20th, 2011
Supersimetria, Espai Cultural Caja Madrid, Barcelona, Spain
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
November 12th/13th, 2010
TranSonic Sound Art Festival, TNUA Experimental Theater, Taipei, Taiwan
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
November 6th, 2010
Interference Festival - IDFX, Breda, Netherlands
Lecture: Radioscape IV
October 4th, 2010
This Happend - Utrecht #7, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Live performance together with Tetsuo Furudate
August 1st, 2010
japanoise.net, Spiral, Tokyo, Japan
Lecture: In Between Time and Space
July 30th, 2010
Taipei Contemporary Arts Centre, Taipei, Taiwan
Lecture: Spatial Sounds (100dB at 100km/h) in the context of HRPR
June 20th, 2010
3rd Human Robot Personal Relationships Conference, Leiden, The Netherlands
five soundwalks for a new neighborhood located in and between Beverwijk and Heemskerk
with Armeno Albers, Cilia Erens, Bente Hamel, Edwin van der Heide and Roald van Oosten
June 20th, 2010 and onwards
Grenzeloos Geluid, Beverwijk and Heemskerk, The Netherlands
Lecture: Time and Space, an artistic approach
June 15th, 2010
This Week's Discoveries lecture series, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Exhibition with proposals for a permanent artwork as part of the new W-Hal of TU-Eindhoven
with Edwin van der Heide, Germaine Kruip, Daan Roosegaarde and Joost van Santen
June 8th - June 25th, 2010
Dag van de Kunst, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
May 23rd, 2010
Dissonanze, Rome, Italy
May 21st, 22nd & 23rd, 2010
Urban Explorers Festival
CBK Dordrecht, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
May 6th, 7th & 8th, 2010
Elektra Festival, Montreal, Canada
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
March 6th, 2010
A Taste of SONAR
Roundhouse, London, UK
PlayThing - Maryanne Amacher
presented by Recombinant Media Labs: Naut Humon & Edwin van der Heide
Feb 28th, 2010
Sonic Acts 2010, Amsterdam, Netherlands
with Justin Bennett, Paul Devens, Cilia Erens, Edwin van der Heide,
Geert-Jan Hobijn, Paul Panhuysen, Nico Parlevliet, Taco Stolk and Peter Veenstra
Jan 29th, 2010
CBK Dordrecht, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Coils - bergkerk - (premiere)
November 13th - December 3rd, 2009
Witteveen+Bos Art+Technology Award Exhibition, Bergkerk, Deventer, Netherlands
Wavescape - yokohama radio version -
October 31th - November 29th, 2009
CREAM, International Festival for Arts and Media, Yokohama, Japan
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
November 13th & 14th, 2009
HyperSounds, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Spatial Sounds (100dB at 100km/h)
November 13th & 14th, 2009
HyperSounds, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Witteveen+Bos Art+Technology Award Ceremony, opening Coils - bergkerk - (premiere),
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
November 12th, 2009
Bergkerk, Deventer, Netherlands
October 17th - October 25th, 2009
PULS, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, Netherlands
July 10th - September 27th, 2009
SOUNDS TO TABAKALERA, Tabakalera, San Sebastian, Spain
Spatial Sounds (100dB at 100km/h)
July 17th - September 25th, 2009
'Physical Conditions', Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA
Shape -KWS- live electronic performance
September 17th, 2009
FÜNF PLUS EINS, Singuhr Hoergalerie, Berlin, Germany
Klangspeicher - global / local
a project with students from the ArtScience interfaculty, The Hague and the TU Berlin supervised by Edwin van der Heide
July 23rd - September 13th
Singuhr Hoergalerie, Berlin, Germany
Lecture on three of Edwin van der Heide's installations and their context
August 28th, 2009
ART-FACTORY Festival - Material Resistance: Elements and Effects, NCCA, Ekaterinburg, Russia, 2009
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
August 27th, 2009
ART-FACTORY Festival - Material Resistance: Elements and Effects, NCCA, Ekaterinburg, Russia, 2009
Edgard Varese Guest Professorship for Computer Music at Technical University Berlin
April - August 2009
Berlin, Germany
June 14th - July 26th, 2009
Musica Genera, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
Lecture on Sound & Architecture
July 3, 4 & 5, 2009
Architectones Conference, Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, France
May 9th - June 28th, 2009
Klangstaetten, Braunschweig, Germany
Generative composition for midified Carillon and two midified Street Organs
June 18th, 2009
Een Dijk van een Kust, Monnikendam, The Netherlands
Wormhole Dordrecht - exhibition of ten parallel sound worlds in the public space of Dordrecht -
polyphonic locative audio worlds realized by means of a custom developed iPhone application
curated by Edwin van der Heide & Joost Rekveld
October 4th, 2008 - April 4th, 2009
CBK Dordrecht, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Guest Lecture as part of Marcel Cobussen's Auditory Culture course
March 16th 2009
Academy for Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University
February 28th, 2009
La Brèche, Cherbourg, France
February 26th, 2009
Les Soirées Nomades (nomadic nights), Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
In between Time and Space (concert with 4 live electronic performances)
Feb 5th, 2009
SARC (Sonic Arts Research Centre) Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
The Spatial Properties of a Medium in Relation to the Human Body - explorations of the electromagnetic space (lecture)
Feb 4th, 2009
SARC (Sonic Arts Research Centre) Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
Grafische Methode Fiets - Dick Raaijmakers
November 21st, 2008
performed by: Edwin van der Heide & Bart Visser
produced by V2_, at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield, England
Grafische Methode Fiets - Dick Raaijmakers
November 15th, 2008
performed by: Edwin van der Heide & Bart Visser
produced by V2_, at November Music, Den Bosch, The Netherlands
Grafische Methode Fiets - Dick Raaijmakers
November 13th, 2008
performed by: Edwin van der Heide & Bart Visser
produced by V2_, at November Music, Ghent, Belgium
Live electronic performance
October 25th, 2008
Lampo, Chicago, USA
'Creating Space, exploring the spatial properties of electromagnetic fields as a carrier for sound' - workshop presentation
October 18th, 2008
Spectropia Festival and Conference, RIXC, Riga, Latvia
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
October 16th, 2008
Spectropia Festival and Conference, RIXC, Riga, Latvia
Grafische Methode Fiets - Dick Raaijmakers
October 11th, 2008
performed by: Edwin van der Heide & Bart Visser
produced by V2_, at Dag in de Branding, The Hague, The Netherlands
Spatial Sounds (100dB at 100km/h)
May 30th - September 30th, 2008
Deep Screen - Art in Digital Culture, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Grafische Methode Fiets - Dick Raaijmakers
September 26th & 27th, 2008
performed by: Edwin van der Heide & Bart Visser
produced by V2_, at Todays Art, The Hague, The Netherlands
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
September 26th, 2008
PICNIC 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
September 20th, 2008
Garaj Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
August 30th, 2008
Avantgarde Tirol, Lichtakademie Bartenbach, Aldrans, Austria
Workshop - 'Creating Space, exploring the spatial properties of electromagnetic fields as a carrier for sound'
August 25th-30th, 2008
Avantgarde Tirol, Lichtakademie Bartenbach, Aldrans, Austria
Juli 18th - August 18st, 2008
Electrified, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
Field of Overtones (work in progress presentation)
Juli 5th, 2008
TUNED CITY, Berlin, Germany
June 10th - July 3rd, 2008
Synthetic Times, Media Art China 2008, NAMOC, Beijing, China
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
June 19th, 20th, 21st, 2008
SONAR 2008, Barcelona, Spain
Workshop - 'Creating Space, exploring the spatial properties of electromagnetic fields as a carrier for sound'
June 17th, 19th, 20th, 2008
Hangar, Barcelona, Spain
Lecture 'Composing Interaction, medium : human'
May 26th, 2008
ECMCT course, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
May 22nd, 2008
Trienale Bovisa, Milano, Italy
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
March 2nd, 2008
Festival Play, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
March 1st, 2008
Night of the Unexpected, Trafo, Budapest, Hungary
February 1st - February 3rd, 2008
Kunstencentrum BUDA, Kortrijk, Belgium
January 31st - February 3rd, 2008
Piazza del Municipio, Ferrara, Italy
NETMAGE 08 Festival, Italy
Grafische Methode Fiets - Dick Raaijmakers
January 27th, 2008
performed by: Edwin van der Heide & Bart Visser
produced by V2_, at Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
January 24th - January 26th, 2008
Pallazo re enzo, Voltone, Italy
NETMAGE 08 Festival, Italy
Dec 16th - Dec 18th, 2007
Weizmann square, Holon, Israel
Hapzura Festival, Digital Art Lab, Holon, Israel
November 22nd - November 25th, 2007
STRP Festival, Eindhoven, Netherlands
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
November 24th, 2007
STRP Festival, Eindhoven, Netherlands
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
November 16th, 2007
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield, England
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
November 10th, 2007
Art Futura, Barcelona, Spain
Live electronic performance
November 3rd, 2007
Scheitern Lernen
Tesla, Berlin, Germany
September 4th - October 5th, 2007
Art Centre Nabi, Seoul, Korea
September 15th - September 30th, 2007
Happy New Ears Festival, Kortrijk, Belgium
Sound Modulated Light
August 2nd - September 23rd, 2007
Singuhr Sound Art Gallery, Water Reservoir, Prenzlauerberg, Berlin, Germany
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
September 3rd, 2007
Art Centre Nabi, Seoul Train Station, Seoul, Korea
June 2nd - September 1st, 2007
Estuaire Bianual 2007, base sous-marine, Alveole 14, LIFE, Saint Nazaire, France
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
August 18th, 2007
Avantgarde Tirol, Seefeld, Austria
August 12th - August 19th, 2007
Brueckenmusik 13, Deutzer Brücke (eingang markmannsgasse), Cologne, Germany
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
August 4th, 2007
Electric Eclectics Festival of Music and Media Art, Meaford, Ontario, Canada
A World Beyond the Loudspeaker
July 1st - July 29th, 2007
Klangraume Sibiu, Casa Luxembourg, Sibiu, Romania
A World Beyond the Loudspeaker
Sound Modulated Light & LSP - Laser Sound Performance (installation version) -
April 20th - June 2nd, 2007
Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
May 25th, 2007
Musica Genera Festival 2007, Szczecin, Poland
Live performance
May 11th, 2007
Observatori Festival 2007, Valencia, Spain
April 10th - April 29th, 2007
DEAF (Dutch Electronic Art Festival), V2_, at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
April 15th, 2007
DEAF (Dutch Electronic Art Festival), V2_, at Zaal Staal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
March 23th, 2007
HIPERSONICa - FILE, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
September 2nd 2006 - Januari 14th, 2007
Good Vibrations
centrum kunstlicht in de kunst / centre artificial light in art, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Live performance
December 17th, 2006
Live!iXem 2006 Italian Experimental Electronic Music Festival and Contest, Rome, Italy
LSP - Laser Sound Performance (installation version) -
December 1st - December 10th, 2006
DAF Tokyo 2006, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan
Push/Pull & Spatial Sounds (100dB at 100km/h)
December 1st - December 6th, 2006
DAF Tokyo 2006, Panasonic Centre, Tokyo, Japan
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
December 2nd, 2006
DAF Tokyo 2006, Panasonic Centre, Tokyo, Japan
Hybrid (premiere)
composition for LOOS ensemble and live electronics
November 24th, 2006
Gaudeamus Live Electronics Festival, Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
September 25th - October 1st, 2006
Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia
September 29th, 2006
Re:visie in Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Spatial Sounds (100dB at 100km/h)
August 23th - September 27th, 2006
Vibra / Audiogeneradores
Curated by ATA (Alta Tecnologia Andina), Lima, Peru
Commissioned by Centro Fundacion Telefonica, Lima, Peru
Generative composition for midified Carillon and two midified Street Organs (premiere)
September 22nd, September 23rd, 2006
todaysart, The Hague, The Netherlands
June 9th - August 7th, 2006
Electric Eclectics Festival of Music and Media Art, Meaford, Ontario, Canada
Spatial Sounds (100dB at 100km/h)
July 21th - July 30th, 2006
Beijing International New Media Arts Festival, Beijing, China
July 7th - July 16th, 2006
5 Days Off Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Montevideo Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pneumatic Sound Field (premiere)
May 31st - July 16th, 2006
Sonambiente
Tesla, Berlin, Germany
Cuts and Layers (premiere)
March 21st - July 9th 2006
as part of the Straatgallerij
curious little sister, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
July 7th - July 8th, 2006
Synch Festival, Athens, Greece
Spatial Sounds (100dB at 100km/h)
July 6th - July 8th, 2006
Synch Festival, Athens, Greece
Spatial Sounds (100dB at 100km/h)
June 1st - 25th, 2006
Circulo Bellas Artes, Tenerife, Canary Islands
May 4th - June 4th, 2006
as part of the Electromagnetic Bodies exhibition
V2_ and TENT, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
LSP - Laser Sound Performance (installation version) -
June 2nd, 3rd & 4th, 2006
7th Art Rock, St-Brieuc, France
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
May 26th 2006
Festival aan de Werf, Utrecht, The Netherlands
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
May 25th 2006
Mixed Media, Milano, Italy
I've curated a substantial part of Dissonanze 2006
May 19th & 20th, 2006
Dissonanze, Rome, Italy
Spatial Sounds (100dB at 100km/h)
May 9th - 14th, 2006
7th Elektra Festival, Montreal, Canada
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
May 12th, 2006
7th Elektra Festival, Montreal, Canada
