Casey Moir

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

Casey is fascinated by the capabilities of the voice. Balancing thoughtful precision and wild abandon she dives into the realm of the multifaceted voice navigating an entangled web of choices, impulses, sounds, and vocal explorations in time and space. Raw. Intricate. Brazen. Unfettered. Inquisitive. Subtle. Playful, yet serious. She is also keenly interested in the concept of space and room and how room/space can affect 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 active on the scene in a variety of projects, ensembles and bands such as her solo project, Été Large (FDE/FR/SE), trio 3Grams, free improvisation duos Moir/Coudoux and Bang and Howl, trio KNAST and is a regular guest in Berlin based duo Subsystem. She has previously been a member of groups such as IGNITE, CLEC, SVELIA, Johan Moir Ensemble and MOCO. 

Casey is also a composer of new music, with her list of compositions including 'Rotations and Slides' for solo percussion, 'Outside In' for 4 voices, electronics and 12 speakers and 'Fluctuations' for solo voice and effect pedals, 'Gertrude - This Happened' for vocal ensemble, props and objects, and AIR for vocal 5 voices, objects, movement, spatialised fixed-media and room.

She has performed at various festivals and venues in Australia, Sweden and Europe such as Umeå Jazz Festival (SE), Luleå Blues Festival (SE), CTM Festival (DE), Sound of Stockholm Festival (SE), Fasching Jazz Club (SE), Nefertiti Jazz Club (SE), Glenn Miller Café (SE), Jazz i Malmö (SE), Make It Up Club Melbourne (AUS), Bennetts Lane Jazz Club (AU), NIMA (AU), Philly Joe's Jazz Bar (EE), Jöhvi Concert Hall (EE), Horns Erben Jazz Club Leipzig (DE), Alchemia Krakow (PL), Nasjonal Jazzscene (NO), Jazz Offensive Essen (DE), the Now Now Festival (AU), SoundOut Festival (AU), Bucareli House of Arts (MX), MU Teater (HU), Audible Edge Festival (AU) and more.

She has performed with artists from around the world such as Emilio Gordoa (MX), Chris Heenan (US), Nina De Heney (SE), Adam Pultz Melbye (DK), Burkhard Beins (DE), Linda Olah (SE/FR), Axel Dörner (DE), Naoko Sakata (JP), Nicola Hein (DE) and Isabelle Duthoit (FR). She has written works for ensembles such as Curious Chamber Players, performed as a guest with contemporary ensemble Mimitabu and participated in the world premieres of several works, such as Arvid Kraft's Phineidae I and II, Catharina Backman's piece ORDET and Israel Martinez piece Love and Rage.