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 Jazz and improvised music, the avant-garde, rock, and electronic music. She has had the privilege of collaborating with musicians, composers, visual artists, directors and dancers at venues such as Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Joe's Pub, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, MassMoca, The Oculus, Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival, Public Records, 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.

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]. Her former, long-term Detroit-based band project Saajtak, has been called “one of the most intriguing and unclassifiable bands in the country right now" [Tone Madison]. Saajtak has released five independently-released EPs and one LP via Chicago’s American Dreams record label.

She is the recipient of a Church of Noise Grant and a Young Arts Awardee, and has been awarded residency at Avaloch Farm Music Institute. She has been a composer fellow at NewAmsterdam Composer Lab as well as a performer fellow at Bang on A Can.

Artists she has performed with include: Shara Nova, Morley Kamen and Chris Bruce, Amanda Krische, Toshi Reagon, Ching-I Chang, Mary Halvorson, Trevor Dunn, Kirin McElwain, Asher Kurtz, Ledah Finck [of Bergamot Quartet], Amy Khoshbin, and Samora Pinderhughes to name a few.