MUSIC COMPOSITION AND SOUND DESIGN FOR digital media platforms 

Everything is connected in our world: people and nature, peace and love. Elena Alekseeva's compositional approach looks at the connection between sound and movement - the way musical sounds, sound effects and textures are related to digital media.Elena is a composer and sound designer who mainly collaborates with dancers and video game developers. Compositional field of interest: electronic dance music, screen dance, music for video games.

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Elena's audiovisual compositions emphasise the connection between music and the movement of the moving image. She looks for strong relationships between the aural and the kinaesthetic worlds to translate and convey the visual characteristics of dance through music. Her musical language varies from project to project due to the requirements of the collaborators. However, it can also be characterised as a fusion of tonal melodic musical expression, digital electronica and occasionally classical Western (orchestral) instrumentation. 

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Biography:

Elena Alekseeva's musical career started as a child when training as a classical pianist. Twenty years of that training has given her a comprehensive classical repertoire. She also studied musical analysis, which gave her a deep understanding of classical composition's structure and form and an expert knowledge of music theory and harmony. Elena began performing the piano at an early age, and she has continued performing through the present. Her career is growing, changing, and expanding from this solid grounding in classical music as she combines digital tools and techniques with traditional skills in music composition. This transition from classical to digital and the fusion of the two allow Elena to explore her love of both the traditional and popular musical styles. 

In 2012, Elena moved to Ireland to obtain her Master's degree at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. It was a fantastic experience and a period of hard work which became a foundation for her future work in music. Elena's Master's degree was completed as a classical pianist. During her work on the degree, she also had the opportunity to teach as a lecturer and tutor for undergraduate students in the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.

Currently, Elena is at the final stage of her practice-based research in Music Composition at the Royal Holloway, University of London. She composes, produce music, writes and enjoys the creative process with many talented and creative collaborators!