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Alex Koi is a vocalist, composer/producer, and improvising musician. She has dedicated her practice to exploring rainbows of musical possibilities and practicing a voracious effort of artistic innovation, expression, and collaboration. She heads her eponymous solo project and is the vocalist and co-composer for the art rock band saajtak. She has had the privilege of working and performing with many people who inspire her including Shara Nova, Toshi Reagon, Chris Bruce, Morley Kamen, Nathan Thatcher, Theo Bleckmann, Asuka Kakitani, Joo Won Park, Eleonore Oppenheim, Nicole Mannarino, Aaron Edgcomb’s CLAK, and Ragnar Kjartansson.

With a three-and-a-half octave range, she weaves together improvisation, electronic processing, extended technique and a keen technical prowess that has made her a versatile artist in each new music, Jazz and improvised, and rock/indie and DIY scenes.

Centering the emotionality of the human experience, 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 collaborated with musicians, composers, visual artists, directors and dancers and toured across North America at venues such as Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Jazz Festival, Joe’s Pub, Detroit Institute of Arts, and more. She currently plays the combined role of Tracy Dunn/Jillian Gilchrist in the National Tour of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of Sower, the theater adaptation of the beloved novel of the same title [Dirs. Toshi Reagon, Signe Harriday, & Eric Ting]. 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 guest artist teaching workshops in voice and performance at Carnegie Mellon University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the University of Merry Washington, and the University of Michigan. 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, loves reading, hiking, and making demo videos for Red Panda Lab’s effects pedals.