Active Projects
Shifting Forms
Alberta Balsam
N8W8 Rotterdam
Pulsar Sound Lab  


Installations & Interactive Works
Shifting Forms (2025 - onwards)
VR & interactive sound work 
In collaboration with Timaeus


GEOLIFT (2025)
Evoluon Museum Eindhoven
Sound Design & Composition for installation

Roos Janssen x Heleen Blanken (2025)
DGTL Amsterdam
Music for installation

Conflux (2024)
Line A/V  by Joris Strijbos
Composition for installation

Crack Nerve Boogie Swerve (2019)
Alexis Blake - TENT Rotterdam
Sound art installation, music
Composition for Theatre, Game & Film
Space Archivist (2025)
Beeld & Geluid, Hilversum
Music for VR Game 

L’ESTATE (2025)
URLAND, Rotterdam
 Modern rendition of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons 
(i.s.m. Jimi Zoet) 

Third Kind (2022)
(Roffa Mon Amour)
Film score

Bring Back the Happening (2022)
Nineties Productions
Music composition & production (2022)

Vreemde Vogels
Lotte Boonstra, Antwerp
Theatre play, music (2019)

Propje (2019)
(Vrouwen van Wanten)
Composition Children’s music theatre (2+)
Shelter Me (Circumference) – Theatre play, composition (2017)

Music Education Projects

Pulsar Sound Lab (2025)
Founder
Educational platform for electronic music producers

Radio Radio Academy Amsterdam (2025)
Teacher
Workshops series on electronic music (2025)

R-NWT  Tilburg (2024)
Ableton Beginner Course 

Antwerp Summer School for Female Producers Music education (2022)
Music Projects
DOOXS
De Ambassade
Alberta Balsam
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Prizes, Residencies & Courses
2024
Lovelace, Effenaar Lab
3-day TouchDesigner course

2017
Red Bull Mixtape Vol. 4

2015
Red Bull Music Academy Basecamp

2015
Grote Prijs van Rotterdam - Winner

2014
Harvard Medical School 
Summer School Health Policy & Medical Ethics


Skills
Ableton Live
Synthesis
Public Speaking
Cultural Policy
Education
Touchdesigner
Hardware Live performance
Adobe Software 
Video editing
Content Marketing
Scientific Writing
Epidemiology
Education
2016
Codarts Conservatory Rotterdam
Creative Producer

2014
Medicine & MSc Health Sciences
Erasmus University Rotterdam

Work Experience
2025
Pulsar Sound Lab 
Artistic Director & Founder

2023
N8W8 Rotterdam
Night Council Member

2018 - onwards
Marketing for the Cultural Sector 
(Fonds Podiumkunsten, Erasmus MC, HipSick, and more)

2017
Classical Music Marketeer
De Doelen, Rotterdam

2015
Teamlead Customer Service & Marketing Printerpro.nl, Rotterdam

2014
Researcher, Music as Medicine 
Erasmus MC, Rotterdam

2009
Stage Manager
De Doelen, Rotterdam
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Aniek de  Rooij

                                               

Music Producer, Educator, Sound Designer & Composer


Rotterdam-based Aniek de Rooij is an electronic artist working across club music, audiovisual performance, and sound for interdisciplinary contexts.

Under the alias Alberta Balsam, she releases experimental electronic music on labels such as Dekmantel and Clone, and performs live internationally in club and festival settings. Alongside this practice, she composes for theatre, games, and commercial media, moving between underground music culture and applied sound work. Balancing club-driven energy with speculative narratives and spatial, and conceptual approaches to sound.

In addition to her artistic output, she works with other artists through production sessions and coaching, focusing on sonic identity, clarity of intention, and artistic development. She is an active player in the local cultural field through educational work with Pulsar Sound Lab and as a council member of N8W8, contributing to Rotterdam’s nightlife and cultural infrastructure.

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SHIFTING FORMS 

 SHIFTING FORMS
2025 - Onwards Katoenhuis
Partners:
Timaeus
Alberta Balsam
Studio VRij
Katoenhuis
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Concept: Timaeus & Aniek de Rooij
Visual development & sculptures: Timaeus
Sound design: Aniek de Rooij 
Technical development: Studio VRij
The project is supported with funding from Stimuleringsfonds
Shifting Forms is an interactive XR installation, exploring the impact of melting permafrost and its ancient, unknown organisms. Blending science and speculative fiction, it immerses visitors in an interactive world where they form a symbiosis with evolving physical, auditive and virtual environments. 

We are currently in the prototype phase. Sound will be developed in two layers, using Metasound (implemented in Unreal Engine)  and 4D sound through Ableton Live to create an interactive, immersive experience. 

GEOLIFT

 GEOLIFT
NEXT NATURE MUSEUM
2025


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Art direction & video design by Timaeus
Sound design by Aniek de Rooij
Creative direction by Noor van Eekelen
Production by Klaas Tops
Technical production & building by Marco Broeders
Photography by Beeldbaas, Tom Doms & Timaeus
What does a journey to the centre of the Earth look and sound like? Next Nature Network invited us to explore this question, imagining the layers you would pass through as you descend from their headquarters in Eindhoven.

With insights from the PRELIFE consortium, we blended scientific knowledge and insight with speculation. Inspired by Jules Verne’s ‘Journey to the centre of the Earth’, the Geolift shows a modern interpretation of the wonders of the Earth. 

The installation consists of a 360 degree panorama view, surround-sound installation and smell sequence. Giving it’s viewers a total immersive experience.  

L’ESTATE

 URLAND
L’ESTATE
2024


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Music by Aniek de Rooij & Jimi Zoet“

SPACE ARCHIVISTS

 SPACE ARCHIVISTS
Beeld & Geluid
Hilversum

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TRANSMIXR
Commissioned by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Composition: Aniek de Rooij & Yannick Verhoeven
The Space Archivists is a multiplayer game in social VR that allows players to explore the digital collection of museums in a futuristic sci-fi scenario. In this broken space archive, all sorts of items float through the air. It’s up to the players to fix the archive by putting all media-items back in place. The game was initially built with archival items from Sound & Vision’s collection, but becomes templateable through the Curator Studio. In the Curator Studio, curators from any museum can upload their own items so their visitors can explore digital collections with any themes.

CONFLUX LINE A/V 

 LINE A/V 2.0 



Performed live at CONFLUX festival
Macular / Joris Strijbos
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‘Line-AV 2.0’ is an audio visual installation created by Macular. ‘Line-AV’ is a commissioned work by Klankvorm and made possible with the support of Creative Industries Fund, Mondriaan Fund, Fonds21, Stichting Bevordering van Volkskracht and the City of Rotterdam.
 Line-AV 2.0 is an evolution of Daan Johan's original sound piece called 'Line'. The piece consists of 24 speakers and custom built LED fixtures. The result is an immersive field of sound and stroboscopic lights which reveal the characteristics of the rudimentary light and sound system.

For its premiere during Conflux Festival 2024 I was invited to create a new sound and light composition for the installation. This was presented as part of the exhibition in Katoenhuis and with a live performance on the installation at Plein 1940. 

CRACK NERVE BOOGIE SWERVE

 Crack Nerve Boogie Swerve
2019

Performed at TENT Rotterdam
within the context of the exhibition No you won’t name buidings after me, curated by Vincent van Velsen.



Alexis Blake
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Concept & direction: Alexis Blake
Choreography: Kelly Bigirindavyi, Fiona Dekkers, Alesya Dobysh, Lisa Kasman, Alice de Maio, and Jomecia Oosterwolde
Sound: Aniek de Rooij
Production Assistant: Judith Roux
Garments: Elisa van Joolen & Anouk Beckers



Crack Nerve Boogie Swerve concentrates on the notions of breaking. Breaking norms, breaking free from constraints. The act and meaning of breaking was explored through the use of sound, the voice and  the body in an installation made of glass and concrete. 

The sound was produced by using the glass as the primary source material of the composition, but also by using the glass itself as either a microphone or a speaker. 

SERVICES

I work with artists and cultural institutions on sound, live performance, and artistic development within experimental and electronic music.

  • Commissioned Sound Work
    Original compositions and sound design for installations, performances, and audiovisual works.

  • Mixing
    Detailed, spatial mixes with a focus on clarity, depth, and translation to club and listening environments.

  • 1:1 Production Sessions
    Individual sessions focused on advancing your technical skills and refining your workflow (online or in person).

  • Artistic Coaching
    Ongoing guidance for producers and artists developing a distinct sonic language and artistic identity.

  • Workshops & Masterclasses
    Educational programs and group sessions via 
    www.pulsarsoundlab.com

  • DJ Sets & Live Performances (Alberta Balsam)
    Club-focused sets and immersive live/AV performances — www.albertabalsam.com 

ANIEK DE ROOIJ

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