Robert van Heumen (NL)
STEIM Support Team
Robert van Heumen is the managing director of STEIM and along with Michel Waisvisz and the STEIM team has helped to coordinate the Dutch side of NIP. An established artist in his own right, Robert is a composer and musician, making electronic music in the studio and on stage. Recent compositions include music for the choreography ‘Drink Me’ by Anouk van Dijk, and the audio-visual composition ‘Solitude’ (with multi-media artist Arnoud Noordegraaf) based on a book by Paul Auster. As a musician he uses STEIM’s live sampling software LiSa with all kinds of controllers and devices. He is active as a member of the electro-acoustic sextet OfficeR, electronic audio-visual trio SKIF++ and part of the N Collective, and has shared the stage with Michel Waisvisz,Oguz Buyukberber, Anne LaBerge, Guy Harries, Daniel Schorno, Roddy Schrock, Nate Wooley and Jeff Carey.
In both his composed and live music he uses a mixture of environmental sounds, toys, voices, sounds from kitchen appliances, and in general all kinds of ‘found sounds’. In a previous life he was a mathematician, trumpet player and software programmer.