Fis Shkreli’s relationship with sound began long before the stage. After leaving war-torn Kosovo with his family and settling in The Bronx in 1991, his earliest experiments emerged from a second-hand Casio synthesizer his father found in a Brooklyn consignment shop. As the batteries weakened, pitch and timing became unstable — revealing to him that sound could behave unpredictably, almost alive. Fascinated, he began recording these anomalies using his father’s portable tape recorder. Those early moments of experimentation laid the foundation for a lifelong pursuit: understanding sound not merely as music, but as a malleable, expressive system.

Working under the name Alastor, Shkreli approaches sound as a self-aware medium — one capable of identity, recognition, and emotional presence. While widely known for his work as an electronic music producer and DJ, Alastor’s practice extends far beyond traditional composition. He is an accomplished sound designer whose work spans film, television, branded media, and experimental audio systems, with a focus on designing sounds that are purposeful, intentional, and deeply integrated into their environments.

At the core of his sound-design practice is a research-grade toolset more often associated with academic labs and experimental studios than conventional production rooms. His workflow incorporates advanced modular and algorithmic systems, including Max/MSP, Reaktor, GRM Tools, MetaSynth, Cecilia, SoundGrain, and Composer’s Desktop Project, alongside an expansive modern software ecosystem that includes close to seven-thousand plug-ins and a variety of hardware components (i.E.; analog & virtual analog synthesizers, analog outboard gear and a wide variety of miscellaneous hardware equipment that further broadens sound-design possibilities). This allows him to design, sculpt and code any type of sound — from procedural textures and adaptive systems to hyper-specific sonic identities — tailored for any application imaginable.

Shkreli’s sound-design work has appeared across film, television, and commercial media, with clients and collaborators including Discovery Channel, History Channel, National Geographic, Hulu, Samsung, BBC, Lufthansa, Microsoft, Motorola, Google, Warner Bros., Paramount, TLC, CNN, and ABC, among others. Whether crafting cinematic atmospheres, brand-defining sonic palettes, or experimental sound systems, his approach is rooted in precision, originality, and conceptual depth.

Parallel to his sound-design work, Alastor has built an internationally recognized music career. Upon moving to Los Angeles, he began releasing music on a regular-basis — with his first release going number 1 globally (Flo Rida’s hit 2012 single ‘Whistle’). His releases have charted repeatedly on Beatport’s Top 100, earned ARIA Gold certification in Australia, and amassed over 80 million combined streams across Spotify and Apple Music. He is also one half of the melodic techno duo All Living Things, alongside producer Rue. Support for his work has come from artists such as Eric Prydz, Sasha, Pete Tong, Junkie XL, Maceo Plex and Moby, to name only a few. His work has amassed over sixty-million streams across all platforms under the Alastor moniker and well over two-billion for work producer for clientele.

Today, Shkreli operates at the intersection of music, sound design, and technology, creating custom sonic worlds for artists, brands, and visual media alike. His work is driven by a singular belief: that sound, when thoughtfully designed, can communicate meaning, evoke memory and affirm presence in ways no other medium can.