Alan Stones is a London based composer, sound designer and lecturer. His music, both instrumental and electroacoustic has been widely performed throughout the UK and abroad and draws on a wide range of ideas particularly regarding the structure and nature of real world and environmental sound.

After study with Jonty Harrison and Vic Hoyland at Birmingham University, and Simon Waters at University of East Anglia, he went on to complete his PhD in composition with Prof. Sebastian Forbes at Surrey University in 2001.

He is particularly interested in collaboration with other artists and art forms, having previously worked with architecture, theatre, lighting, film and animation. However it is contemporary dance, with which he has collaborated since 1989 and which has formed the focus of his compositional output since 2000 that he is especially interested, having worked with a range of choreographers in the UK, Europe and the US.

Recent work with dance include an ongoing series of collaborative dance and video pieces with American choreographer Allyson Green and artist Peter Terezakis:
Inventory of Happiness, premiered Potiker Theatre, San Diego (March 2010); Inta’s Dream, premiered Riga Arts Space, Latvia (August 2008); Abandon and Nada Que Declarar, both premiered DanceSpace Project, New York City (June 2006); and Heart Beats Light, premiered at San Diego Art Museum (October 2005).

Other projects include About Around, a collaborative dance work ‘in the round’ for BGroup and choreographer Ben Wright (Oct 09) ; Changing Spaces (Sept 06) a collaborative light and sound installation with Diana Henry, CIPD, Wimbledon; and sound design for Odyssey (Sept 2005), a large-scale dance and film work with choregraphers Ben Wright and Rachel Krische.

He currently teaches privately and is part-time Senior Lecturer at Roehampton University, London where he teaches a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including composition and music technology.