Dotter, aka Alexandra Hay, is a San Francisco-based electronic
music producer who creates beat-based worlds where instrumental
fragments and glimpses of humanity float in vast spaces.
Growing up in rural New Zealand, she wrote songs and made tape
recordings of birds and waterfalls, beginning an obsession with
sound that led her deep into an academic career of art music
composition. Always interested in sounds that refuse
categorization, she played Indonesian gamelan, made countless
field recordings and won awards for instrumental works that made
extensive use of multiphonics and microtonal textures. This
dedication led her to Berlin and Vienna to study the work of the
Expressionist composers, and then to Stanford in 2010.  It was
in the USA that she first fell in love with club sonics and
embraced her deep desire to make music that is intelligent,
immersive and fundamentally physical. Inspired by Burial, The
Field, DMA classmate Holly Herndon and her professor Robert
Henke, Dotter has emerged with a unique w