Id, Ego, Superego, voice, sundry pedals and machines, keyboard, bass, whatever else is handy.
Special guest stars: Rob Stephens, Jon Asencio, Rick Rigby, D.Kimm, Sophie Trudeau, Michel F. Côté, Bernard Falaise, Alex St-Onge, Lesley Farley.
Influences
The Ink Spots, Led Zeppelin (as sung by Ethel Merman), Nina Simone, Laurie Anderson, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Steve Reich, Ennio Morricone, thunderstorms, The Pharcyde, broken machines that clunk and hum arrythmically, Keiji Haino, Santo & Johnny, Can, Young Marble Giants, Blossom Dearie, DNA, Yo La Tengo, Jorge Ben, Caetano Veloso, Jacques Dutronc, The Lake of Stew, Françoise Hardy, the fighting cats in heat in my back alley, Tom Waits, Brigitte Fontaine, Yoko Ono, mermaids, hormonal imbalances...
Sounds Like
the end of the world, with drinks. dreams from which you have a hard time waking. there are grizzly bears dancing and the stars are blinking on and off
Writing bios is boring. Here is what an arts center in Austria has to say about me: "
The androgen, Cimmerian-like, multi-talented, funny, and dubious artist is a fixed star in the Montreal cabaret and avant-noise scene. With pseudo-virtuous verbally, gutturally and technically generated melodies Alexis O’Hara gets tangled up in spontaneous sound and body battles expressing the general absurdities of life.
In her performance “City of Sighs” Alexis O’Hara breathes herself through the register of man’s arrogance and absurdity. In the form of a living dynamic sound sculpture she embodies wordless stories, a meditation of fear and longing, her voice transformed, multiplied, interfered and alienated by various forms of hi- and lo-technology, the distortion of one’s subjective perspective illustrated through visual projections.
Performance poetry, sound art and interactive life art is what O’Hara calls the genres that most closely define her work. Her performances with clothes running on batteries have become legendary—now she wires up with samplers and sends her voice on hypnotic and lyrical journeys."
In a nutshell: I make sound. Performances, recordings, installations. I also take pictures, make videos and make incredible medicinal popscicles.
Hola Alexis O'Hara gracias por el add no olvides pasar a dejar tu huella en nuestro myspace =) saludos de tus AMIGOS de INSOMNIO MUSICAL!!!
Buena vibra!!!
Hi there Alexis O'Hara thanks for the add dont forget to stop by to leave some greetings dont be shy =) greetings from all your FRIENDS of INSOMNIO MUSICAL
I was just telling my cousin what an amazing artist you are, and how I don't want to come back to Montreal until I have a performance of weight and worth to ask someone like yourself to come and see it. You really break boundaries and thanks for the inspiration.
Cheers for the add, love your sounds and would like to hear more. Best wishes, From Prometheus(Unbound) and all at EMP ...---... ...---... ...---... EMP - Fractal Annihilation .. ....
thank you so much, i will be visiting regulary. And please feel free to skip hop or pop over to my page anytime...Im always in with a pot of tea and freshly baked vanilla cake xxxxx
