Alex Koi is a vocalist, composer, improvising musician, actor, and interdisciplinary artist. She has dedicated her practice to exploring rainbows of musical possibilities and practicing a voracious effort of artistic innovation, expression, and collaboration. She is the vocalist and co-composer for Detroit art rock band saajtak and has had the privilege of working with many people who inspire her.
With improvisation as a foundational part of her practice, she utilizes electronic processing, extended technique, and her diverse musical influences to create 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 collaborated with musicians, visual artists, directors and dancers and toured across North America at venues such as the Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Jazz Festival, Joe’s Pub, Detroit Institute of Arts, and more. Her professional theater debut has been in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of Sower, for which she plays the combined role of Tracy Dunn/Jillian Gilchrist. She graduated from The University of Michigan School of Music, Theater, and Dance in 2015.
She was a Teaching Artist with Ann Arbor’s University Musical Society and has conducted classes in creative singing and performance at Carnegie Mellon University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the University of Merry Washington, and the University of Michigan. Additionally, she has taught private voice lessons at numerous performing arts organizations including Expressions Music Academy, Dance Dynamics, and Third Wave Music. Additionally, she enjoys baking fancy cakes, science fiction, hiking, and making demo videos for Red Panda Lab’s effects pedals.