Darren Moore

Born in Scotland, raised in Australia and based in Singapore, Darren Moore (b. 1974) is a drummer and electronic musician and whose approach to music balances fire and energy with subtlety and timing. He considers creative improvisation as central to his artistic practice whether he is making music on the drums or analogue modular synthesisers. He works predominantly in the fields of jazz, rock, experimental and improvised music styles and has performed throughout Australia, South-East Asia, Japan and Europe.
 
Creative improvisation is central to his practice maintaining a through-line in his approach to varying projects and activities. He is the musical director for the cellF project which is the world’s first neuron-driven analogue synthesiser (http://guybenary.com/work/cellf/). His ongoing projects include free-improv group Game of Patience, audio-visual duo Black Zenith, improvised duo with Malaysian saxophonist Yong Yandsen and Carnatic rhythm based percussion duo Darren Moore/Suresh Vaidyanathan.
 
Darren's musical journey began when he starting playing drums at 14 years old in his home town of Perth, Australia. His early musical experiences where playing rock music in the underground local music scene before entering the Western Australian Conservatorium where he completed a Certificate in Classical Percussion in 1993 and a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Drumming in 1997. After graduating from university, Darren moved to London which proved to very formative to his development as musician through having exposure to the broad range of musical experiences. Darren returned to Australia in 2002 where he lived in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney.
 
In 2006, Darren moved to Singapore to become a Lecture in Music at Lasalle College of the Arts where he taught drum set, popular music studies and creative improvisation. Darren is a passionate teacher who believes strongly in nurturing the next generation of musicians. His commitment to education saw Darren complete a Doctorate of Musical Arts at the Queensland Conservatorium in 2013 which looked at the adaptation of Carnatic Indian rhythms to the drum set. In 2018, he rejoined the music faculty at Lasalle as a Lecturer in Music.
 
The move to Singapore saw him expand his activities and network to become active on the jazz and experimental music scenes in South East Asia and Japan. In Singapore, Darren was a driving force in the jazz and experimental music scenes performing regularly and organising events with under the banner of the C.H.O.P.P.A. Experimental Music Series. Darren was the artistic director for the 2008, 2010 and 2015 C.H.O.P.P.A. Experimental Music Festivals. In 2014 he was also the artistic director for the Singapore leg of the Australian sound art festival Liquid Architecture.
 
Darren lived in Tokyo from 2015-2018 where he quickly established himself as an exciting new voice on the Tokyo music scene. In Japan he collaborates with Tokyo's most adventurous improvisers including Akira Sakata, Hirose Junji, Fumio Itabashi, Toshimaru Nakamura, Kazuhisa Uchihachi, T. Mikawa, Hirose Hasegawa, Otomo Yoshihide, Jim O’Rourke, Suga Dairo, Cal Lyall and Akira Ishii to name a few.

www.darren-moore.net.