Sjoerd Leijten is a
transdisciplinary artist, composer and radio maker with a keen interest
in dissident sounds and politics. He often works with electromagnetism,
field recordings, noise, realtime processing and open source software
and hardware.
His work consists of performances, concerts, DIY instruments,
installations, releases, podcasts, films and radio. His music for cinema
and videogames has won several awards. He has showed his work in various
places, amongst others Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, NL), Dimanche Rouge
(Paris, FR), Incubate (Tilburg, NL), Het Bos (Antwerp, BE), Kernel
Festival (Desio, IT), Oerol (Terschelling, NL), Berlin Art Weekend
(Berlin, DE) and the Old Church (Amsterdam, NL).
Together with artist
Mariana
Lanari he forms the Finnegans Wake re-narration band
Rainbow
Peel 475.13. With researcher
Roel
Griffioen he makes the podcast
TRASHLINIE.
Sjoerd lives in Antwerp (BE), where he is the co-initiator of the artist
run venue
toitoiDrome in Borgerhout. On
the local underground radio station
Radio
Centraal 106.7 FM he hosts the bi-weekly radioshow
trashkot
together with artist
Jo Caimo:
"A rancid tissue of sounds, conversations and garbage forms a shaky
bridge between music and politics."