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Edwin van der Heide (Hilversum, The Netherlands, 1970) is a dutch artist and composer known for his immersive installations. He currently lives in Rotterdam.

Biography
Van der Heide was born in Hilversum, Netherlands, in 1970 and studied Composition in Utrecht.

He has developed his academic activity in The Hague, where he was director of the ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Conservatory and the Royal Academy of Arts of that city. Currently, in addition to developing his artistic career, he is a professor and researcher at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Leiden.

Van der Heide began his artistic career as a composer and performer in the field of electronic music and developed his work in the field of audiovisual installations.

Van der Heide's installations are characterized by the importance of sound, and by the work with spatial and lighting means, such as lasers, fog or smoke, creating thus an immersive and sensory experience for the audience.

His work has been presented at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, the MAXXI in Rome, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Art Basel in Basel or the Locarno International Film Festival.

Van der Heide was awarded with the Composition Prize of the Beethoven Foundation in Bonn, in 2015 and in 2018, he was selected for the opening of the 25th edition of the Festival Sonar in Barcelona with his installation Chiasma.

Discography

 * Compilation CD, Sensorband = Edwin van der Heide, Zbigniew Karkowski & Atau Tanaka (1999)

Just about Now (2000)

Meltdown of Control (2000)

Wavescape (2003)

Anthology of Dutch Electronic Music 1999-2010 (2011)

Aoyama Noise - live at Cay (2011)

Spectral Diffractions (2014)

Pneumatic Sound Field (2014)