Alessandro Anatrini (Fiesole, 1983) is a composer, digital artist and creative coder. He studied historical musicology and pedagogy at the University of Bologna, composition at the Conservatorio G.B. Martini, electronic music at Tempo Reale.
From 2008 to 2013 he worked as a music teacher in several primary schools in central Italy. In 2013 he relocated to Berlin thanks to a Leonardo scholarship and in 2017 received a M.A. in multimedia composition from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg (HfMT).
He is active in the field of multimedia pedagogy and from 2017 he regularly lectures on sound and instrument design topics at HfMT. As a researcher he deals with R&D of adaptive multimedia systems, mapping strategies, touchless interfaces and dedicated tools for installations and performance scenarios. He is currently a PhD candidate in the “KISS: Kinetics in Sound and Space” joint doctoral programme at HfMT and the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW).
His music has been played by the soloists of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Hamburger Symphoniker. As a composer and computer music researcher he regularly takes part in festivals and conferences such as Manifèste, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Impuls, Blurred Edges, Tactus, SMC, and TENOR among others.
He collaborated as interaction designer in projects of the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK) and the Digital Stage Foundation. From 2022 he is Professor of Music Technology in the Italian conservatories.