Alee Karim

(b. 1980) is a composer and guitarist living in San Francisco, CA. His work is aural cinema, in that he arranges sonic textures & motifs like scenes in a film. In his work, harsh dissonance gives way to gentle themes; alien juxtapositions veil sentimental tropes in order to trace the dense emotional architecture of the modern psyche. Growing up in Los Angeles amidst speed metal and Top-40 radio, his constellation of influence expanded to include composers Gyorgy Ligeti and Trey Spruance, director David Lynch, and author Philip K. Dick. In 2007, he received an MFA in Music from Mills College. His collaborators include composer/engineer The Norman Conquest, electro-acoustic chamber pop duo Myrmyr, and percussionist Shayna Dunkelman. He performs solo and with his band, The Atomic Bomb Audition.