Biography
Eli Stine is a media artist, software engineer, and educator. His work explores electroacoustic sound, multimedia technologies (often custom-built software, video projection, and multi-channel speaker systems), and collaboration between disciplines, artistic and otherwise.
Stine's work has been programmed at festivals and conferences including ICMC, SEAMUS, NIME, CMMR, NYCEMF, the Third Practice, Studio 300, and Threshold festivals, CubeFest, the Muestra Internacional de Música Electroacústica, the International Sound Art Festival Berlin, the Workshop on Intelligent Music Interfaces for Listening and Creation, and the International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art, and Design.
It has also been released on New Focus Recordings, Ravello Records, Musiques & Recherches’ Influx imprint, and SEAMUS Records. His work Where Water Meets Memory was a finalist for the 2022 Métamorphoses International Acousmatic Composition Contest. Stine performed electronics on celebrated composer George Lewis’ 2021 album The Recombinant Trilogy, which was reviewed in the New York Times, on I Care If You Listen, in The Wire, and in February 2021’s Best of Bandcamp.
Stine has undertaken residencies at the Stanford Music Information Retrieval Workshop, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Banff Centre, Harvestworks, Prague Film School, the Spatial Music Workshop, and Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras. His research has been presented and published internationally in the proceedings of the Sound & Music Computing Conference, International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research, International Computer Music Conference, Sounding Out The Space Conference, the Workshop on Intelligent Music Interfaces for Listening and Creation, the International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design, and in the first volume of Plant Perspectives.
His sound design for film has been heard by more than a million people in The Amerikans web series. His sound design for the virtual-reality installation VRWandlung, a VR adaptation of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis toured the world during 2018-19, with installation locations including Prague, Berlin, Madrid, Cairo, Oslo, and Tokyo.
Stine most recently worked as a Software Engineer at Meta (formerly Facebook) Reality Labs - Research.
In his free time, Stine enjoys exercising, learning different electronic musics, and reading.
