ALICIA E. - About

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Alicia Erlandson (she/they, b.2004) is a mixed heritage afro-latina visual artist / composer from Detroit currently based in New York City She is a proud member of the Mosaic Composers Collective, and currently pursuing a B.M. in Music Composition at The New School with Kamala Sankaram.

Alicia started playing flute at age ten, spending much of her life performing in wind, marching, and pit bands before learning to write music during the early stages of the covid-19 quarantine. She finds most of her inspiration in brief research stints about phenomena in the natural world, wanting to use sound to illustrate them in a way that is fluid, engaging, and connects them to our emotional experiences. She hopes to find sounds that are sparse, yet also deeply textured, and that listening to her music feels like watching a bird fly past your window; fleeting, colorful, and grounding. Audiences have described her work as “intimate” and “refreshing, like a granny smith apple”.

Alicia has recently been commissioned to animate a short film for Rain Michael's THISTLE, illustrate for Julie Kim's performance art piece CORPUS, and to write a piece for voice and piano as part of the NYFOS Next 2026 Festival. They are also the current production assistant for the Wild Resonance podcast with Stephen Griesgraber; where various bio-acousticians, biologists, ecologists, and sound artists are brought on to discuss their work intersecting art, research, and environmentalism.