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
A#

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

N8W8 Rotterdam

Pulsar Sound Lab

Alberta Balsam

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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