Credits: Nine Islands

Searching for ways to refresh the way we think, see and feel things, she aims to make the familiar, unfamiliar by deformation of materials, sounds and settings.

Amber Docters van Leeuwen is a composer, performer, and multimedia artist whose research-based practice interweaves sound, documentary, and theatre elements.

As a multimedia artist, she integrates sound, performance, visual media, and space into cohesive artistic forms. This interdisciplinary approach positions sound as an autonomous narrative force rather than a purely musical element, understood as a form of language, a vessel of memory, and a way of thinking.

Her work is driven by political and societal questions that resist straightforward answers, creating space for themes such as displacement, intergenerational transmission, trauma, and identity, while leaving room for doubt, the unfinished, and the imagination of the spectator.

She studied cello at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and continued her training at the Manhattan School of Music in New York. During her studies, her fascination grew for sound design, dramaturgy, and the performative power of sound. Through projects such as Capsule I, II (immersive sound installations) and Moving Narrative (documentary theatre performance), developed within her platform EEFA Projects, she creates interdisciplinary works that invite audiences to actively listen differently.

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