Alex Ring Gray is a composer, performer, and multimedia artist. Working across many mediums–especially concert music, film scores, free improvisation, and installations–his work is largely driven by conceptual processes, gradation over large time-scales, and collage. His music blends roots in free jazz, austere minimalism, Appalachian folk, and ambient electronic.

In addition to his own creative output, Alex is an active producer and engineer. He is a co-founder of artist-run label cmntx records, Technical Director of InfraSound Ensemble, and frequently involved with the Nief-Norf Summer Festival. Since 2018, a main engagement has been working as music assistant to Philip Glass, helping prepare and produce both new and archival projects. He has also worked in varying capacities for composers Nico Muhly, Angélica Negrón, and Alex Weston.

Alex was raised in Nashville where he was immersed in the local Americana, indie rock, and jazz scenes from an early age. He initially studied as a jazz saxophonist before shifting focus towards experimental music making, earning degrees in composition and musicology from New York University (MM) and the University of Tennessee (BM). His primary teachers included Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe, Morton Subotnick, and Andrew Sigler. He lives in New York City with his partner and collaborator, Vicki Leona Nguyen.