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Alexis O'Hara

let it out and let it go

About Me

I hate writing bios. 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."

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/28/2006
Band Website: dyslex6.com
Band Members: Id, Ego, Superego, vocals, electronix, analogix, bass guitar, whatever else is handy
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
Record Label: 1rst album: Grenadine Records, 2nd: ?
Type of Label: None

My Blog

waiting for the food dehydrator to work its magic

I have met many loves who sought to teach me how to love, or rather, how not to love. But I am a baby. I am an old lady. Still so fresh and setting like the sun in a jell-o mold. I know there is a pla...
Posted by Alexis O'Hara on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:50:00 PST

post tour decompression

I managed to continue living life as a vacation upon my return to Canada. Trips to the Eastern Townships, the Laurentians and Old Montreal engendered a 'soft landing'. Today, 16 days after my return, ...
Posted by Alexis O'Hara on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:13:00 PST

safe in the busom of the brood

I have a large family. Oh, yes, the people i meet, the daily platonic love affairs, the folks who fall as i fall for them, they too form a large mass of interconnectedness. But, what I really mean is:...
Posted by Alexis O'Hara on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:19:00 PST

barcelona is a noisy, fragrant town

My room has a nice balcony and if I am in the mood for some techno musique concrète, I sleep with the windows open. My lullaby is anti-sleep. It says: WE ARE ALIVE AND WE HAVE NEEDS. Televisions blare...
Posted by Alexis O'Hara on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:41:00 PST

earnest and embarassed

we should like to rewire our circuitry to make this machine less vulnerable to outside pressure. we speak of the weather and its systems that cause mildew and condensation to seep from facial orifices...
Posted by Alexis O'Hara on Tue, 01 May 2007 12:07:00 PST