Eli Stine is an internationally active media artist, software engineer, and educator. Projects that Stine has designed sound and written code for have been mentioned in the New York Times, USA Today, The Wire, The Economist, and on NPR, and have toured Europe, Asia, and India. In 2025 Stine will be appointed Assistant Professor of Computer Music & Digital Arts at Oberlin Conservatory in the Technology In Music And Related Arts program. Prior to that, Stine worked as a Software Engineer at Meta (formerly Facebook) Reality Labs Audio Research. Stine received Ph.D. and Masters degrees in Composition and Computer Technologies as a Jefferson Fellow at the University of Virginia and bachelor’s degrees in Technology In Music And Related Arts and Computer Science from Oberlin College and Conservatory.

Stine's work explores electroacoustic sound, multimedia technologies (often custom-built software, video projection, and multi-channel speaker systems), and collaboration between disciplines, artistic and otherwise. Stine’s work has been released on New Focus Recordings, Ravello Records, Naxos Records, Musiques & Recherches’ Influx imprint, and SEAMUS Records. My sound design for the celebrated virtual reality installation VRWandlung, a VR adaptation of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, has been touring the world since 2018 with stops in over 50 cities in 35 countries. Stine’s work Where Water Meets Memory was a finalist for the 2022 Métamorphoses International Acousmatic Composition Contest. Stine performed electronics on esteemed composer George Lewis’ 2021 album The Recombinant Trilogy, which was reviewed in the New York Times, on I Care If You Listen, in The Wire, and in Best of Bandcamp.

Festivals and conferences that have programmed Stine's work include ICMC, SEAMUS, NIME, CMMR, NYCEMF, the Third Practice, Studio 300, and Threshold festivals, CubeFest, the Muestra Internacional de Música Electroacústica, the International Sound Art Festival Berlin, the London Film Festival, the New Music Gathering, University of Chicago’s CHIMEFest, Bang on a Can’s LOUD Weekend and New Music On The Point. Residencies attended include the Stanford Music Information Retrieval Workshop, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Banff Centre, Harvestworks, Prague Film School, the Spatial Music Workshop, and Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras. Stine’s research has been presented and published internationally in the proceedings of the Sound & Music Computing Conference, International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research, International Computer Music Conference, Sounding Out The Space Conference, the Workshop on Intelligent Music Interfaces for Listening and Creation, the International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design and in the first volume of Plant Perspectives.

Currently, Stine is working on releasing a set of audio plug-ins inspired by his dissertation work (EcoBobbles) and an immersive spatial audio experience in partnership with Genelec. In his free time, Stine enjoys exercising, tea, learning different electronic musics, and reading.