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Edwin van der Heide

  • Edwin van der Heide is a Dutch sound artist, composer, and researcher whose work explores the relationships between sound, space, and interaction. His artistic practice extends traditional musical composition and language into spatial, interactive, and interdisciplinary realms, creating immersive installations, environments, and performances that place the audience at the center of the experience, inviting exploration and engagement with sound as an architectural and perceptual medium.

    Van der Heide’s work has been exhibited and presented internationally at prestigious museums, festivals, galleries, and cultural venues, including Ars Electronica Festival (Linz), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Transmediale (Berlin), SONAR (Barcelona), SFMOMA (San Francisco), MAXXI (Rome), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, ZKM (Karlsruhe), and the Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid), among others.

    Beyond his artistic practice, Van der Heide is engaged in research and education. He serves as a lecturer and researcher at Leiden University, where he is involved with the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) and the Academy for Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA). From 1995 to 2016 he taught at the ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Conservatoire and Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, later becoming co-head of the department.

    Van der Heide held the Edgard Varèse Guest Professorship at the Technische Universität Berlin in 2009, and he has been invited as a guest professor and lecturer at institutions such as Le Fresnoy – Studio des Arts Contemporains in France and the Bern University of the Arts in Switzerland.

    • Music x Technology

      Bachelor Course

    • Feyenoord City/Getijdenpark - een onderzoek naar de geluidsbeleving

      The report provides an initial impetus to further consider—from the perspective of sound and sound perception—the design, choice of materials, and positioning of landscape elements (residences, roads, vegetation, walking and cycling routes, structures, etc.) regarding the Getijdenpark and Feyenoord City.

    • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies
      edited by Michael Bull and Marcel Cobussen

      Edited volume offering a wide ranging, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary investigation and analysis of the ways in which researchers use a broad range of methodologies in order to pursue their sonic investigations.

    • WHISPERING WIND

      Whispering Wind (Fluisterende wind), a sound artwork by Edwin van der Heide, is situated in the passage that cuts right under the P.J. Veth building of Leiden University.