Eli Stine is a media artist, software engineer, and educator currently working as a Software Engineer at Meta (formerly Facebook) Reality Labs - Research. Prior to that, Stine was a Professor of Computer Music & Digital Arts at Oberlin Conservatory. 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 Oberlin 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). This work has been mentioned in publications including USA Today, The Economist, and on NPR, and released on New Focus Recordings, Ravello Records, Musiques & Recherches’ Influx imprint, and SEAMUS Records. His work Where Water Meets Memory was a finalist for the 2022 Métamorphoses International Acousmatic Composition Contest. Stine performed electronics on celebrated 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 February 2021’s 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. His 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.

Stine’s film sound design has been heard by over a million people in The Amerikans web series and his sound design for the virtual reality installation VRWandlung, a VR adaptation of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, toured around the world during 2018-2019, with installation locations including Prague, Berlin, Madrid, Cairo, Oslo, and Tokyo. 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. Click here for consulting information.