Casey Moir

Photographer: Ali Asperheim

Casey Moir is an Australian born vocal-artist, improviser, and composer of experimental music, based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Her artistic practice is centered around the extended capabilities of the voice. She enjoys testing and pushing conventional boundaries, exploring how vowels and consonants can be formed, distorted, and manipulated, and how sounds can be shaped and moulded using the tongue, lips, glottis and hands. She combines these somewhat unconventional aspects with other musical aspects such as form, direction, overall shape, structure and movement. She is also keenly interested in the concept of space and room and how these can be investigated in performance, improvisation and composition. This has her composing larger scale works that use a whole room as the scene and that can have musicians and/or audience being ambulatory, changing directions, trajectories and proximities to things, sounds and others.

Casey graduated from The Australian National University in Canberra with her Bachelor of Music Performance, majoring on voice, in 2005. Since moving to Sweden in 2007 she has also completed a Bachelor of Improvisation (2011), and a Master of Experimental Composition (2021), at the Academy of Music and Drama, in Gothenburg.

She is founder, member, and artistic director of the experimental 5-piece Viva Vocal Ensemble, performs regularly with her solo project, improvisational duo IGNITE, 13-piece ensemble Été Large, and is a member of group susch 3 grams (based in Germany) and the interdisciplinary group CLEC who works with improvisation, sound, live art/illustrations, and room.

Working both in the field of improvisation and experimental music, she is active on the Swedish and international scene. She has performed at festivals such as CTM Berlin (DE), Now Now Festival (AU), SoundOut (AU), J.O.E. Festival (DE), Sound of Stockholm Festival (SE) and more. She has composed works for contemporary ensembles such as Curious Chamber Players, and performed new works of living composers, such as Israel Martinez (MX) and Christian Kesten (DE). She is often invited to collaborate in short-term projects, including City Composing with contemporary ensemble Mimitabu (SE), interdisciplinary music and video art project UnStumm (DE/SE), and with the Gothenburg Dance Company in their multi-space installation performance Surburbia 37° under the leadership of choreographer Pedro Goucha Gomes.

Awards

Young Nordic Jazz Comets 2013

Gear

Microphone; effect pedals including 2 x Bose DD7's, TC- Helicon Reverb and Octaviser, Red Panda Particle, Wally loop.

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