Patricia Alessandrini is a composer/sound artist creating compositions, installations, and performance situations which are most often interactive and theatrical. Through these intermedial formats, she actively engages with the concert music repertoire, and issues of representation, interpretation, perception, and memory. Her works are often collaborative, and engage with social and political issues. She performs research on inclusive design, multimodal and immersive experience, AI-driven co-creativity, biosensing, soft robotics and automata more generally.

Her works have been presented in the Americas, Asia, Australia, and over 15 European countries, in festivals such as Archipel, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Electric Spring, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Heidelberger Frühling, Gaudeamus, Mostly Mozart, Musica Strasbourg, Rainy Days, Salzburg Biennale, Sonorities, and Wien Modern. She is also an instrument-designer and performer and improvisor of live electronics.

She was composer-in-residence at the 2010 soundSCAPE festival, and featured in ICELab with the International Contemporary Ensemble in 2012. In 2015-6, 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 centre for digital arts in Paris.

She studied composition and electronics at the Conservatorio G.B.Martini di Bologna, Conservatoire National de Strasbourg and IRCAM (Paris), and holds two PhDs, from Princeton University and the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC), Queens University Belfast respectively. She has taught alto perfezionamento of Computer-Assisted Composition at the Scuola superiore of the Accademia Musicale Pescarese, Composition with Technology at Bangor University, as a Lecturer in Sonic Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London, and has taught composition and performed research at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) of Stanford University.

She is currently a Professor of Artistic Research at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne, where she directs the Masters in Music Project Creation. 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) of the Royal Northern College of Music in the UK.

Her portrait CD of works for ensemble and electronics, recorded by Riot Ensemble, was released on Huddersfield Contemporary Records in 2023 - and described by Gramophone Magazine as “supremely well crafted” – and her feedback improvisation duo CD with Marco Fusi, entitled Proximity, distance, was released on Sideband Records in 2025. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022 and a Radcliffe Fellowship in 2024, and was an invited artist-professor at the Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains in 2024-25.

Her works are published by Babelscores.