Kate Moore
Kate Moore is a composer of new music. She creates worlds of sound for acoustic and electroacoustic media and writes instrumental music, concert music, sound installations and more. Her interests lie in research with particular respect to the history and origin of music and musical instruments and the exploration of sonic architecture, acoustics and the physics and psychoacoustics of sound.
Moore specialises in creating surprising performance scenarios that feature virtuosic instrumentalists and musicians set amidst unusual and alternative performance circumstances. Known for her large scale Sonic Novellas including The Open Road (Open Road Ensemble), Debris and Alchemy (Ensemble Klang – Ensemble Klang Records), Violins and Skeletons (Calder Quartet), Dances and Canons (Saskia Lankhoorn – ECM New Series), Cello Concerto (Ashley Bathgate – ASKO | Schoenberg), she draws her audience into her strange, surreal world both dark and light.
Her work has been described as “a giant tsunami of sound” New York Times, “a fascinating exercise in micro- and macro- rhythm” Sydney Morning Herald, “from the haze she creates, graceful, ambling melodies emerge and evaporate, and those give the music its allure.” New York Times, “her intent seems to be to create a dream, an alternative reality” UT San Diego.