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
N8W8 RotterdamPulsar Sound LabAlberta 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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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.  
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