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Alex V (aka Siren313) grew up in SW Detroit in the 80s.  He is of German and Hungarian decent.  His community was working class and multicultural. 

Alex grew up listening to Classic Rock, Motown, New Wave, Swing, Electro-Funk, Early Hip Hop, Techno and Industrial.  He was also influenced by ethnic music and the Fluxus art movement. 

Jack White, Diana Ross and Lilly Tomlin graduated from his high school, Cass Tech.  Indeed, Jack and Alex were in the same grade.  When Alex was a kid he used to listen to Jeff Mills and The Electrifying Mojo on the radio.  While working at Greenfield Village, he was fortunate enough to meet Rosa Parks.

In the 90s while living in Detroit, some of his hangouts included: Leland City Club, Luna, Ascension UK, @critical, The Shelter, Room 213 in Windsor where he more than once sipped coffee with Ritchie Hawtin and many other then emerging greats on the Detroit/Windsor techno and industrial scenes. 

He was played on the radio as early as 1993 on WDBM, CJAM, WHFR and WCBN.  Apraxia published the first demo in 1995, and was featured on a string of compilations in the 90s and 00s.  Among them are the Chain DLK Compilation vol 3 published in Italy, Detroit Electronica Coalition vol 2, Twin Cities ElectroPunk vol 2 and many others. 

Alex has collaborated with Gabe Gonzales from the P-Funk All-Stars, Lolly-Pop, Laura Hillman from Somegirl, and hEADACHE.  In between albums Alex played drums with a band called Ceoxime which opened for Pigface and God Lives Underwater. 

Apraxia played shows with Shiny Toy Guns, All the Pretty Horses, Screaming Mechanical Brain and many others.  Apraxia played after-parties for Ministry and the Detroit Electronic Music Festival. 

Alex interviewed Paul Robb from Information Society on KFAI in March of 2009.

Alex spent a short time as an intern at Harmonie Park Studios.  His music has been used in television commercials for Dearborn Music and Yazaki North America. 

Alex scored and did the music direction for a cult movie called Shadows on the Wall which notably featured the music of Stromkern, Endless Blue, Envy is Blind, and Brainclaw. 

In 2007 Alex was given an awarded by the Southern Poverty Law Center and added to the Wall of Tolerance for his work fighting the distribution racism, extremism and ethnic hate online.

Now Alex lives in Minneapolis.  Since arriving he has published the most recent and most popular CD in the catalog, Trite Permission.  Trite was given 5 stars by Side Line Magazine and became Album of the Month on Radio Fabrik in Salzburg Austria. 

If you want to hear Apraxia locally, try KFAI, Hard Mondays or The Chamber.  It's also been added at college and community radio and featured on podcasts and webcasts like IPM Radio. 

The forthcoming album, theGrid() is expected in Jan 2010.  In the interim, Apraxia released a collection of rarities and new tracks called Protoform.

Alex does 99% of the production in his home studio using primarily Roland and E-MU synths.  However he has been known to experiment with pots and pans and electronic toys.