ABOUT
Praised by The New York Times for her “appealingly melancholic sound” and “entertaining array of distortion effects,” Alexandria Smith is a multimedia artist, audio engineer, scholar, trumpeter, and educator that enjoys working at the intersection of all these disciplines. Her creative practice and research interests focus on building, designing, theorizing, and performing with wearable electronics that translate embodied, biological data into interactive sonic and visual environments. To explore how electronic music is embodied through practice, she has been experimenting with ways to integrate biofeedback training and sensor observation into her electronic music, build controllers that go beyond keyboards and drum pads, and perform with interactive visual environments. Her research in this interdisciplinary area was recently published in Arcana Musicians on Musicians X and presented at MOXsonic.
In Fall 2023, Alexandria Smith will be joining the faculty at Georgia Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor of Music Technology. She recieved her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego, and holds an M.M. and B.M. from Mannes the New School for Music.
Alexandria is a Demonic Machines Artist.
Alexandria Smith is an active performer in New York City, California, and New Orleans. Recent performances include performing in the premiere of Alvin Lucier’s Orpheus Variations for solo cello, seven wind instruments, and seven dancers, David Behrman’s "Open Space with Brass" with Ed Bear & Ensemble, San Diego Symphony’s Hearing the Future Festival, Tulane’s Music at Midday Series, Instigation Festival, and the Instant Opus Series. As an improviser/multi-media artist, Smith has had a residency at the Stone NYC and feature recitals on the Future of New Trumpet (FONT) Festival West, Dartmouth’s Vaughan Recital Series, the VI Semana Internacional de Improvisación in Ensenada, Baja California, and Tulane University. She has been a performer at the FONT Festival NYC, Improv night at the Stone, Chosen Vale Seminar for Advanced Musical Studies, Either/OR Spring Festival, and has performed with Jeff Albert, Anthony Coleman, Billy Martin, Caroline Miller, Justin Peake, Kathryn Schulmeister, Wilfrido Terrazas, with the Tilt Ensemble, Dave Taylor, the Versipel Ensemble, John Zorn, and more. Alexandria can be heard on Billy Martin’s GUILTY and Wilfredo Terrazas’ ‘the Torres Cycle’.