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 Østfold Internasjonale Teater (Fredrikstad, NO), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, NL), Budapest Spring Festival (Budapest, HU), V2_ (Rotterdam, NL), Kernel Festival (Desio, IT), Oerol (Terschelling, NL), Berlin Art Weekend (Berlin, DE) and the Old Church (Amsterdam, NL).


Currently he is working on the cinematic installation CATASTROPHIC STRUCTURES in collaboration with Stijn Verhoeff and on WATCHTOWER, a series of 7 site specific sound installations in collaboration with Johannes Bellinkx. He is developing an electromagnetic, sculptural instrument, named the AETHER ARCER, in collaboration with costume designer Daphne Karstens. Together with architecture researcher Roel Griffioen he is currently working on the sonic essay Parceled Desire (Verkaveld verlangen) on Flemish and Dutch housing cultures, which will soon be released on all major podcast platforms.

His practice is generously supported by Creative Funds NL, Mondriaan Fund, Dutch Film Fund and Flanders Audiovisual Fund.