Patricia Alessandrini is a composer/sound artist, electronics performer, instrument builder and researcher actively engaging with notions of canonicity, representation, interpretation, perception and memory, often in a social and political context. Her interactive, intermedial and theatrical compositions and her research have been presented in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australia, and in more than 15 European countries, at festivals such as Archipel, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Electric Spring, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Heidelberger Frühling, Gaudeamus, Mostly Mozart, Musica Strasbourg, rainy days, Ruhrtriennale, Salzburg Biennale, TIME:SPANS, Wien Modern and Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik.

She studied at the Conservatorio di Musica di Bologna Giovan Battista Martini, Conservatoire National de Région de Strasbourg and IRCAM, and holds PhDs from Princeton University and the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) respectively. She is a Professor of Artistic Research at the HEMU – Haute École de Musique, HES-SO Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale, and previously taught Composition at Stanford University, Sonic Arts at Goldsmiths College, University of London and Composition with Technology at Bangor University. She has been awarded Guggenheim (2022) and Radcliffe (2024) fellowships.

She serves on the advisory boards of ShareMusic & Performing Arts, a Swedish knowledge center for inclusion, and the Centre for Practice & Research in Science & Music (PRiSM) in the UK, and currently performs research on inclusive multimodal and immersive experience, feminist paradigms of technology, soft robotics and automata more generally.

A portrait CD of works for ensemble and electronics by Riot Ensemble, Leçons de ténèbres – described as "supremely well crafted" by Gramophone Records - was released by Huddersfield Contemporary Records in 2023, and her feedback improvisation duo CD with Marco Fusi, Proximity, Distance, will be released on Sideband records in the Summer of 2025.  Other CD releases are also forthcoming in 2025: her portrait CD with Another Timbre featuring the Arditti Quartet, Earplay Ensemble and Ensemble l'Itinéraire, and recordings for instruments and electronics by Galan Trio and Mauricio Carrasco.

Her published works are available from BabelScores.