Ingrida
Alonderė
Cultural strategist & musicologist
exploring virtual choirs as emotional data
I work at the intersection of research, cultural strategy, and artistic practice, exploring how collective voice emerges in digitally mediated environments. My focus is on virtual choirs as relational systems — where sound, image, and participation generate shared emotional experience. Open to collaborations at the intersection of research, artistic practice, and digital culture.
Speaker at Music Encoding Conference 2026 (Tokyo)
Working internationally across research and cultural projects.
Digitally mediated collective singing creates new forms of connection.
Virtual choirs function as relational systems, generating affective data at the intersection of musicology, cultural strategy, and human experience.
Upcoming Book
My first autobiographical book is currently in progress.
An essayistic work on anger — not as rupture, but as a form of clarity.
Moving between personal experience and intellectual reflection, the book explores how emotion becomes structure, and how inner tension can transform into awareness.
A quiet inquiry into voice, boundaries, and becoming.
Projects & Impact
Featured Project
Virtual Choir Lithuania (2016–2021)
Initiated one of the first national virtual choir movements, connecting Lithuanian voices worldwide through asynchronous collective singing.
Global Reach
Jauna Muzika – International Projects
Led international collaborations and tours, including a 14-concert tour in Japan across major cities, bridging cultural distances through musical excellence.
Artistic Production
Virtual Choir Works (2016–2021)
Created and produced large-scale virtual choir projects exploring sound, visual composition, and collective digital presence.
Sociocultural Analysis
Research on Virtual Choirs
Developed a practice-based framework analyzing how sonic, visual, and social layers generate collective experience in digital environments.
Virtual Choir Works
A collection of digital choral projects created between 2016 and 2021, pioneering cross-border virtual performance and exploring the intersection of technology, music, and community.
Experimental / relational practice
Addere Care — Virtual Choir
Created in collaboration with the Addere Care community, this virtual choir explored voice as a form of presence, listening, and relational experience.Rather than focusing on performance, the project centered on participation, emotional openness, and the possibility of being together through sound despite physical distance.Developed as an experimental practice close to the field of music therapy, the work explored how collective singing can become a reflective and human space within digitally mediated environments.
Creative direction, filming, editing, and sound design — Ingrida Alonderė. Lead voice — Ieva Marmienė
Part of ongoing research into virtual choirs as relational and participatory collective experience frameworks.
Research & Talks
MEC 2026 Speaker
REGENT Conference
Sustainability Forum
Ongoing Research
Additional Talks
From Encoding to Empathy
Selected for presentation at the Music Encoding Conference 2026, exploring virtual choirs as a form of digitally mediated collective experience.
The Digital Voice of Connection
A research talk exploring virtual choirs as spaces of collective presence and mediated connection.
Green Choir Initiative
A sustainability-focused project exploring the transition from paper scores to digital practices in professional choral environments.
Practice-based Framework
Developing a practice-based and phenomenological approach to virtual choirs, focusing on sonic, visual, and social layers of participation.
Choral Practice & Culture
Talks on new media in choral practice and Lithuanian choral culture, presented at Baltic Musicological Conference and LMTA Conference (2020).
Awards & Recognition
1st Prize
Lithuanian Music Critics Competition
1st Prize
Young Musicologist Competition
Research & Publications
From Encoding to Empathy
Music Encoding Conference — Tokyo, 2026
Exploring virtual choirs as relational systems where digital structures give rise to collective emotional experience.
The Digital Voice of Connection
REGENT Conference — 2025
Investigating virtual choirs as spaces of mediated presence and collective connection.
Green Choir Initiative
Sustainability Forum, LNDT — 2024
A project exploring the transition to digital practices in choral environments, linking sustainability, technology, and organizational change.
Practice-based Framework
Research Program — Ongoing
Developing a phenomenological approach to virtual choirs, focusing on sonic, visual, and social layers of participation.
New Media in Choral Practice
Baltic Musicological Conference — 2020
Lithuanian Choral Culture (LMTA Conference, 2020)
Professional Experience
My work has evolved from choral direction and early digital performance practice to international cultural project coordination, and currently to research and cultural strategy.
Today, I work at the intersection of research, artistic practice, and international collaboration, focusing on virtual choirs as relational systems and forms of emotional data.
Musicologist & Cultural Strategist
Working across research, cultural strategy, and international projects (2021–present)
Researcher in Virtual Choir Systems
Developing and producing virtual choir projects and research (2016–2021)
International Cultural Projects
Coordinating international collaborations and artistic initiatives (2014–2016)
Interdisciplinary artistic work
Visual Practice
Alongside research and musical practice, my work also extends into visual and interdisciplinary artistic forms exploring emotion, presence, memory, and inner experience across sound and image.
Rather than functioning as separate disciplines, these practices intersect through a shared interest in reflection, attention, and human experience within contemporary culture.
Recent painting exhibitions have been presented in cultural and community spaces in Lithuania, including a forthcoming exhibition within the Psychiatry Department environment at Santaros Clinics in Vilnius.
Visual practice as part of a broader exploration of relational and reflective environments.
Exploration of presence and memory through layered textures. Mixed media, 2024. Photo — Gabija Matkutė
First exhibition presented alongside the book launch of Lina Rudaitienė’s Colours of Conscious Breathing at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius, 2023. Photo — Gabija Matkutė
Collaboration
I collaborate across research, artistic practice, and international cultural projects. Open to conversations, collaborations, and projects exploring collective voice, digital culture, and human connection.
ingrida.alondere@gmail.com
Connect
Selected Work & Engagements
Music Encoding Conference 2026 — Tokyo
Exploring virtual choirs as relational systems and emotional data.
Research · Cultural Strategy · International Projects