Aleksei Stevens is a composer, sound artist, laptop musician, and creator of computer-mediated live performance works incorporating instrumental performance, found sound, real-time signal processing, and video. Recent installations include Suspended Sounds (created in collaboration with Joan La Barbara, Alvin Curran, and others), at the 2006 Ear to the Earth Festival in New York City; and 40°45' North, 73°59' West, at the Tevereterno Festival in Rome. In March 2007, his work Cirrus, for flute and electronics, was premiered at Carnegie Hall.  Other recent NYC performances include The Stone, Symphony Space, and The Monkey.

In April 2007, Aleksei exhibited his invention, the SoundBall, at Sony Wonder Labs in New York City.  The SoundBall is a foam ball with a motion sensor inside, which communicates wirelessly with a computer, so that sounds and music can be created through dance and/or play.  The project was developed in pursuit of Aleksei's interest in new interfaces that interpret physical motion sonically, giving dancers and other performers the opportunity to interact musically in real time with traditional instrumentalists.

Aleksei received a Master of Music degree in composition from Manhattan School of Music in 2006, where he studied with Nils Vigeland and Joel Chadabe.  Past mentors include Noel Zahler, Dalit Warshaw, and Philip Lasser.

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