Alexei was born in 1962 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He graduated from college with a degree in theoretical physics. Became active in music in early 1980-s.

1981 – 1990 Participated in numerous artistic projects: founded rock band Lolita, which released a 1990 tape album “Moscow Vacations”, since featured in the chart of 100 Best Tapes of Russian Rock. Participated in creating of "Gorbushka" music and artistic center

1990 -1994 Moved to St.Petersburg and opened a first rock’n’roll music shop “Nirvana” in the city. Participated in many projects and actions at the art center “Pushkinskaja 10”.

1994 – 1999 Performed and recorded several albums with an avantrock band RDDB

1999 – 2004 Involved with the Sergey Kuryokhin International Festival SKIF

2001 – 2004 Acted as the SKIF Artistic Director and participated in organizing of SKIF in Berlin on 2003

2002 Created the APosition Creative Union and became its producer as well as a member musician

2004 Took part in free jazz improvising project that included a recording session at the Fantasy Records produced by Henry Keiser. These recordings were compiled in two albums as Kaiser/Pliousnine

2005 Founded the International Music Forum APOSITSIA that became an annual event gathering together experimenting artists from all over the world

2007 In collaboration with other St.Petersburg artists established Share SPb – multimedia project

2008 – 2012 Participated in organizing Cosmonoise festival in St.Petersburg

2011 Took part in organizing multimedia festival Media Night in St.Petersburg.

2011 Established Diafragma records label and published on vinyl “Aposition sampler” consisting recordings by several St. Petersburg’s experimental projects from 80-ies till 2011.

2012 - 2013 Organized and participated in MUZKONSTRUKTOR project for children with disabilities.

Activity: Alexei Pliousnine is an active writer and authored many articles on music, various essays, as well as publishing an online music magazine "MusArt"; played several characters in various movies; received the Petropol Award for music to a poetic project "Voices of St. Petersburg" and delivered several lectures in Finland in 2002 and at Pennsylvania State University in 2006 on contemporary Russian music culture. Alexei also performed and gave a masterclass at Chicago State University. On 2011 – 2012 Participated in Night of the Museums festival with multimedia installations.

On 2012 by the invitation from Sibelius Music Academy in Helsinki Alexei participated in Tulkinnanvaraista music series and gave a masterclass at Sibelius Academy of Music.

concerts Alexei uses his own guitar playing technique. Alexei was the first Russian improvising artist to perform at CBGB’S, Tonic and Issue Project Room in New York. With different projects Alexei has been participating in several festivals, SKIF (including SKIF in Berlin), festival HABITATS 2006 in New York, Space of Joy - Khan Altay 2008, Space of Joy – Karelia 2010, Figments (New-York), Servateguse Muusika (Tallinn), Systo 2009, 2010, 2012 and many other festivals and forums in Russia, USA, Germany, Poland, Finland, Argentina. On 2006, he took part in Pauline Oliveros Deep Listening class at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he performed a solo work “Scott of Antarctic” the first part of Heroic Project (soundart collaborative project by the members of APosition). On 2011 as a part of Art in Antarctic international program by DNA institute (Buenos-Aires) visited Argentinian bases Marambio and Esperanza in Antarctica in order to make the project “Sound of Silence”. Alexei became the first Russian musician to be performing in Antarctica.

Projects: While in APosition Union he took part and established many multimedia and musical projects, such as multimedia trio YGO performing ancient Russian Orthodox chanting tradition Znamennij Raspev, APOSITION ORCHESTRA - a free improvising collective by the members of Aposition Union and friends, DWA – an experimental duo with Pavel Mikheev (guitar, drums), Silence Corporation (USA/Russia) - with Peter Principle (Tuxedomoon), Dok Gregory (Psychic TV), multimedia exhibition Life and Death of Vinyl, Heroic project, Aposition orchestra. In collaboration with VJ Elik with the name Regis III he is currently working on Invincible project based on novel by polish sci fi writer Stanislaw Lem. Alexei is also currently performing solo by the name of Monoxpom.

He also participated in various music and theatre related projects, including "Simon the Magus", a joint production with the Mariinskij (Kirov) Ballet.

During his career Alexei issued a number of albums on CDs, vinyl and CDRs.

Alexei established his own guitar playing technique that he uses in his solo project MONOXPOM. The result is a unique musical style called IMPROG, which is similar to minimalism with the elements of noise, drone, ambient, minimal techno and progressive and experimental rock.

During his career Alexei issued a number of albums on CDs, vinyl and CDRs.

MONOXPOM is a solo project for prepared guitar by Alexei Pliousnine. His technique of playing the instrument is a result of several years of experiments influenced by such masters of the guitar as Keith Rowe and Fred Frith.

Alexei does not use any electronics and all effects are pursued merely by hand and a whole arsenal of rods made of glass, wood and metal, as well as other unexpected objects. It makes performances by MONOXPOM very attractive and intriguing.

Alexei calls his genre of music Improg, derived from improvisation and progressive rock. MONOXPOM performance is always live spontaneous improvisation. Yet the music is well structured and very picturesque. Sometimes it sounds like a soundtrack to a movie.

The style is close to minimalism, microtonal music, with elements of ambient noise and even minimal techno. One can recognize the motives of the Russian North and church bells, African rhythms and discipline of Chinese or Japanese theatrical tradition or even aggressive black metal and drone.

If we put it in terms of fine art, conventional guitar playing is classical realist painting, while MONOXPOM is abstractionism, cubism or surrealism.

Alexei’s improvisations are often inspired by science fiction, fantasy, or movies.

performed with: Peter Brotzman, Famoudou Don Moye, Patti Smith, Brian Godding, Carlos Zingaro, David Murray, Keith Rowe, Phill Niblock, Shelley Hirsch, Burton Greene, Raymond Boni, Yanka Diaghileva, Egor Letov, Sergey Letov, Nick Rock’n’roll, Vlad CPC, Gary Lucas, Henry Kaiser, Soren Runolf, Dror Feiler, Daniel Carter, Borah Bergman, Lukas Ligeti, Frank London, Jon Raskin, Gino Robair, Damon Smith, Marco Enieidi, Lou Grassi, Charles Gayle, Tim Hodgkinson and many others.