Bio
Kim Moore is a sound artist based in Glasgow. Blending strings with voice, synths and electronics she creates immersive, dark, ambient sound worlds. Her longform album work ‘A Song We Sping to Destroy Again’ was released in 2023 on ‘Blackford Hill Audio’. Kim also works in film and is currently a participant on the ‘Composer’s Lab’ with the RSNO, under mentorship of John Lunn and Danai Kogogia. She continues to collaborate with composer Patrick Jonsson on feature films and TV series, most recently as additional music writer for documentary feature: ‘Los Ninos Perdidos’ and ‘Out There’ new drama series.
As a recording artist she is working on a new release alongside composing work for a new durational performance installation: ‘Float’.
Short film scores include ‘The Air We Breathe’, directed by Lucas Kao and ‘This Endless Sea’ by Chloe Smith. Other highlights of the last few years include working as composer assistant to Patrick Jonsson on the Stephen King horror film ‘The Boogeyman’ and working on additional music for ‘Convergence, Courage in a Crisis‘ by award winning documentary maker Orlando von Einsiedel.
In 2020 as Artist in Residence with Chamber Music Scotland she was commissioned to write for strings and electronics with new ensemble GAIA using manipulated tape loops and field recordings. She also produced a new commission with graphic score for chamber ensemble Senary.
As a live artist, Kim has performed her own work supporting artists; such as Faust/Can, Rosie Lowe, Bill Wells, Adem, Doomsquad, Circuit des Yeux, Haiku Salut, and Jessica Moss. In her former band Zoey Van Goey, she toured over the UK with 2 albums released by Chemikal Underground, and in Europe supporting Belle and Sebastian.
Kim has played viola and sung for other artists as a musician with artists such as Pictish Trail, Peter Broderick, Frightened Rabbit, and Lord Cutglass.
She has also been commissioned for several live film scores including, Hell Unltd (Glasgow Film Theatre/PRS Foundation), Metropolis and The Cabinet of Dr Caligari for Hidden Door Festival.
She has also worked as composer/sound designer for over 15 years across award-winning productions in theatre and dance with Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, National Theatre of Scotland, Leeds Playhouse, The Barbican, Soho Theatre, with award-winning writers/theatre makers Jenna Watt, Kieran Hurley, Julia Taudevin, Rob Evans, Barrowland Ballet, and Magnetic North. Kim composed and performed music in a dance theatre production with Barrowland Ballet called which toured internationally for 3 years to Australia, Egypt, China, Japan, Norway, other European festivals.
She was part of the Adopt a Composer program with Bristol Reggae Orchestra, supported by Sound and Music and PRSF. Is a recipient of a Seed Award from Sound and Music, and was nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award.