Alison Joy Gardner is a musician and artist based in Devon, UK, making experimental electroacoustic music using found sounds, field recordings and synthesis.
Gardner’s creative journey began in the visual arts where she created paintings exploring emotions. Then drawing on her past musical experience, including playing the double bass in the Devon Symphony Orchestra, she began writing piano-based acoustic songs telling human stories of love, loss and grief based on observations enhanced by her time spent living and working in Europe. She later moved into more experimental electronic work, blending melodic and harmonic textures with richly layered soundscapes to express the complexity of universal social and societal issues which she finds compelling.
Having graduated with a first class BA (Hons) in music from the Open University (which incorporated the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance Certificate in the Practice of Music Making in which she achieved a distinction), she undertook an MA in Music Production and Sound Engineering with Falmouth University and dBs Institute, which she achieved with merit in 2025. Her MA dissertation addressed the physical and emotional effects of musical and audio properties on the listener, and included the composition of a 30-minute audiovisual installation entitled Sound and control centred around the results of her research and the way in which sounds can influence the human experience.
Since graduating, Gardner has released Sad Little Patriarchy, an acousmatic sonic narrative following the trajectory of patriarchal ideologies.