Alexis O'Hara
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Alexis O'Hara is a Canadian performer, sound arorn in Ottawa and currently resides in Montreal.
Since 1997, she has been active in the Montreal cabaret and experimental music scenes. O'Hara ran the Montreal poetry slam for several years before switching her focus to vocal and electronic music and interactive performance projects. Subject to Change and The Sorrow Sponge, two projects in which audience participation and electronic clothing are elements, have toured Canada, the United Kingdom and Belgium. Her live and recorded work concerns itself with language, anthropomorphism, the human brain and heart and social order.
Her eclectic live work attracts programmers from a variety of disciplines from Live Art to experimental music to spoken word. Her live engagements include the National Review of Live Art, transmediale, FIMAV, and Festival Voix d'Amériques. She has shared bills with a diverse array of artists including Diamanda Galás, Henri Chopin, Ursula Rucker and TV on the Radio.
Alexis is the niece of actress/comedienne Catherine O'Hara and singer, composer and artist Mary Margaret O'Hara.
[edit] Discography
- In Abulia (2002) - Grenadine Records
- "Ellipsis" (2010) - &records
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