Alex Chechile This is Me

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1. 1. Asleep and dreaming under canopy of sound -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY

   timesunion.com/AspStories/stor - [Cached]

   Published on: 10/30/2006   Last Visited: 10/30/2006

   Composer Alex Chechile had a strap around his head.
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   A squiggly line projected on a screen behind Polzin and Chechile illustrated the electric activity of Chechile's brain.
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   Chechile, 26, of Troy, is a master of fine arts student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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   Chechile said he felt a little self-conscious.
   
   "It's biofeedback so I'm being monitored," he said.

2. 2. upstateartistsguild.org

   upstateartistsguild.org/ASACPr - [Cached]

   Published on: 2/16/2008   Last Visited: 4/21/2008

   ALEX CHECHILE (guitar, Troy)
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   Alex Chechile (b.1980, Boston, MA) is a composer, improviser, and interdisciplinary media artist who is currently working to explore and utilize the relationship between human physiology and the act of musical creation by developing homemade biofeedback music performance systems. He received a BA in Composition and Theory from Tufts University in 2003, and is presently finishing an MFA in the Electronic Arts at Rensselaer in Troy, NY.
   
   An avid performer of music with improvisation at its core, Alex has played in a variety of ensembles ranging from New Music to Noise, Javanese Gamelan, and West African Drumming, and is frequently performing with Pauline Oliveros both in and out of Tintinnabulate.
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   Alex Chechile