Member Profile: Alexander Sigman
Short Bio
Alexander Sigman’s award-winning instrumental, electroacoustic, and interdisciplinary works have been featured on major international festivals, exhibitions, institutions, and venues across Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America. He has been selected for artist residencies at the Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany), the Djerassi Foundation, the Paul Dresher Ensemble Artists Residency Center, and Gullkistan, Center for Creativity (Iceland). In 2013-2014, he undertook a musical research residency at IRCAM.
Nominal/Noumenal, Sigman’s first portrait recording, was released on Carrier Records (NY) in 2012. His violin and electronics piece VURTRUVURT was included on violinist/violist Miranda Cuckson's solo CD Melting the Darkness, released in 2014 on the Urlicht Audiovisual label. fcremap,a series of audiovisual works, was released in November 2017 on New Focus Recordings. Also active as a researcher, Sigman’s academic writing has been widely published in peer-reviewed books, journals, and conference proceedings.
Sigman completed his doctorate in Music Composition at Stanford University in 2010. Further postgraduate studies were undertaken at the University for Music and the Performing Arts Vienna, as well as the Institute for Sonology of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (Netherlands). He is currently Associate Professor and Chair of the Music program at the International College of Liberal Arts (iCLA) of Yamanashi Gakuin University in Kofu, Japan.