Casey Moir is a vocal-artist, improviser, and composer of experimental music. Intrigued by extended techniques and alternate expressions, she explores the voice in all its splendor.
A continuous investigation into the extended properties of the voice within improvisation and composition. Working with conceptual ideas and free improvisations I navigate the voice through selected effect pedals to elongate, layer, construct and deconstruct a piece and/or work. Sometimes done together with performative aspects that I believe to be integral to the music. The aim is to listen with subtle precision and find balance in the midst of the wildness of all things spontaneous and predetermined.
Casey Moir - Voice
Elisabeth Coudoux - Cello
Both experienced in exploratory improvisation, they draw on the extensive sound spectres of their instruments - voice and cello - as they ebb and flow in the layering of sounds. Textures emerge. Tensions arise. Contrasts flow. Subtleties surface. Mixing wild abandon with thoughtful precision they land in seamless interplay. Skilled yet playful. Breathing and moving symbiotically in the music of the moment, they are simultaneously autonomous yet decidedly interconnected in sound and space.
Casey Moir, voice
Laurin Oppermann, voice
Conni Trieder, flute
Luise Volkmann, alto sax
Peter Ehwald, tenor sax
Rémi Fox, baritone sax
Johannes Böhmer, trumpet
Marleen Dahms, trombone
Johanna Stein, cello
Athina Kontou, double bass
Yannick Lestra, piano
Paul Jarret, guitar
Max Santner, drums
Unbridled power and passion, playful fervour, a boundless joy of fantasizing, indomitable cohesive forces and absolute fearlessness – that is Luise Volkmann’s band Été Large.
In her new and third program the stories we tell, Luise Volkmann deals with “new folk songs”. What are the stories that touch us, change us and that we want to tell ourselves?
A work about the Été Large collective, which has been linked not only by professional ties but also by personal friendship for years. But also a work about the question of what traces we want to leave in the world.
Casey Moir, Hannah Tolf, Klara Ahlersten, Matilda Andersson
Viva Vocal Ensemble is a 5-piece ensemble founded in contemporary vocal practice and the rich spectra of the voice. Building a new repertoire through collaborations with composers, this ensemble has a focus on new works and all things experimental.
Integral to the concept are two main things: one being an exploration of the capabilities of the voice, interpreting gestural extensions, sounding guttural expression, navigating intricate microtonality, and deconstructing vocal conventions; the other is an exploration of room and spatiality in performance. Fusing these together is the aim to establish an irrevocable interconnection between voice, body, and movement, in space and time.
All members are established in their musicality, having developed their own distinctive artistic perspectives and expression, enriching the group sound and performative possibilities.
Luise Volkmann - alto sax
Casey Moir - voice
Michael Schiefel - voice
Under the leadership of Luise Volkmann, this fresh new constellation is discovering the intimacies of the voice and saxophone in a unique trio setting. Capturing the organic sound of these three individual breath-related instruments the group hones in on the related tonal ranges of the collective alto voices in a new repertoire that is sometimes lyrical, sometimes humorous, and sometimes an expression of yearning. With these compositions at the helm they have a program that moves with seamless fluidity between pop, new music and improvisation.
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