Alex Chechile is a New York based artist and composer whose work explores the relationships between sound, physiology, psychoacoustics, and cognitive science. His pieces are built through using analogue modular synthesis and self-constructed biofeedback systems (brain/nervous system). These systems allow the implicit physiological and cognitive experience of performance to directly effect how the music is perceived.

Alex has been supported by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Harvestworks, the American Embassy, the Malcolm S. Morse Foundation, and the Ellis and Karin Chingos Award. He has performed at venues including Issue Project Room (NYC), The Stone (NYC), Eyebeam (NYC), and MonkeyTown (Brooklyn). His work has been presented at SIGGRAPH (San Francisco), The New American Art Union (Portland, OR), C02penhagen Fest (DK), PhonoFemme (Vienna, AU), and Linoleum Festival (Moscow, RU). Alex is one of the founding members of Pauline Oliveros’ Tintinnabulate ensemble, is a collaborator with Mercury Rev, and has formerly performed with the BVG Javanese Gamelan, and Kiniwe, a West African drum ensemble.

Alex holds an MFA from Rensselaer Polytechnic (Electronic Art) and a BA from Tufts University (Composition/Theory). His oeuvre primarily consists of compositions for acoustic and electro-acoustic chamber ensembles, but also spans to Internet2 telepresence distance performance, installation, and video.