Patricia Alessandrini

Patricia Alessandrini is a composer/sound artist creating interactive and intermedial compositions, installations, and performance situations. She is also a performer and improviser of live electronics. Her works have been presented in the Americas, Asia, Australia, and more than 15 European countries. She was a composition fellow at the 2010 soundSCAPE Composition and Performance Exchange and was selected for the International Contemporary Ensemble’s icelab in 2012. In 2015–2016, she was featured as a composer, curator, and educator in four concert and outreach events of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, as part of the Sound Kitchen series at the Gaîté Lyrique, a center for digital arts in Paris.

At Radcliffe, Alessandrini is working on a futurist intermedial music theater work set in outer space for coloratura virtuosi Marisol Montalvo and Donatienne Michel-Dansac and ensemble, based on a libretto by the novelist Alexandra Kleeman. Calling on her previous experience designing and building electronic interfaces, robotic systems, and instruments, the piece will include “intelligent” soft robotics systems with musical and visual interest.

Alessandrini studied composition and electronics at the Conservatorio di Musica Giovanni Battista Martini; Conservatoire – Cité de la musique et de la danse, in Strasbourg; and IRCAM, and she holds PhDs from Princeton University and the Sonic Arts Research Centre. She currently researches embodied interaction, immersive audiovisual experience, and accessible instrument design at the Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics and serves on the ShareMusic & Performing Arts advisory board. Alessandrini was awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 2022 and 2023.