Alex Koi

Alex Koi is a vocalist, composer/producer, and improvising musician. Her music is the mystical translation between the privacy of her inner world and the somatic extrication of such. Through polyphonic narrative, ecstatic release and coy murmurs, she bends between her diverse musical influences in the avant-garde, opera, Jazz, and electronic music. She heads her eponymous project and is the vocalist and co-composer for the art rock band saajtak called “one of the most interesting and unclassifiable bands in the country right now” [Tone Madison]. She creates an explosive sound that has been called “impossibly stunning” [Stereo Stickman], “primal and futuristic at the same time” [Current Magazine] and that “bends between operatic and punk rock” [Audiofemme].
She has had the privilege of working with musicians, composers, visual artists, directors and dancers such as Shara Nova, Toshi Reagon, Ragnar Kjartenson, Chris Bruce, Morley, Eric Ting, Nathan Thatcher, Trevor Dunn, Sally Gates, Kirin McElwain, Nathan Thatcher, Ching-I Chang, David Leon, Lesley Mok, Aaron Edgcomb and more. Performances have included those at venues including Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Joe’s Pub, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival, and more. She recently played the combined role of Tracy Dunn/Jillian Gilchrist in the Off-Broadway production of “Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower”, Toshi Reagon’s theatrical adaptation of the beloved novel. www.alexkoimusic.com