Alex Dowling is an Irish composer and producer. His current work involves repurposing AutoTune and other vocal effects to create strange and otherworldly extensions of the voice. Recent works include his album Reality Rounds for AutoTune choir, a commission from Irish National Opera to create a work for boy soprano, and a collaboration with director Blanka Zizka and visual artist Rosa Barba for the show There at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. He has created works for Irish National Opera, Irish National Symphony Orchestra, and Crash Ensemble, among others. Dowling has also created works for theater and laptop orchestra, and his audiovisual installation Bodysnatcher was exhibited at the Eyebeam Gallery in New York and toured many other countries.
While at MacDowell, he worked on songs and sound design for his latest album.