Performer

Alexis Weaver

Composer and University Educator

 

ALEXIS WEAVER (she/her) is a composer, sound artist and educator based in Sydney, Australia. A passionate composer of electroacoustic music, Alexis has also composed soundtracks for animation, short film, theatre, dance, and podcasts. Alexis’ electroacoustic works have been broadcast in Australia, the US, the UK, and Europe, as well as featured on New Weird Australia’s Collapse Theories (2022), Solitary Wave (2019) and RMN Classical’s Electroacoustic and Beyond II (2017) compilation albums.

Recent highlights include her residency in Venice for La Biennale di Venezia throughout 2023, where Alexis composed an immersive electroacoustic work featuring poetry by Dr Geosmin Turpin. She also collaborated with Kopi Su Studio to premiere a new, AI-generated work for the Sonic Mutations livestream at the Sydney Opera House, which was revisited for the 2023 Sydney SxSW Festival.

Alexis is an Associate Lecturer in Music Technology at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. She is also a PhD candidate with the University of Sydney’s School of Chemistry, studying the role of music and sound design in science communication.​