Michelle Moeller is a composer, performer, and teacher born in the Midwest and based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her creative practice is ever evolving, guided by restless curiosity and natural resistance to a singular approach. Drawing from both a foundational lyricism and a penchant for textural contrast, she works with computers, keyboard instruments, found objects, and manipulated materials to build responsive electroacoustic systems.
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Her work is motivated by playfulness and the subtle obscuring of perception, blurring boundaries between sound, choreography, and scientific process. Each piece contains an immersive world of shifting relationships, in which cause and effect spontaneously interchange or loop back on themselves. Light may generate movement, movement may produce sound, and sound may in turn reshape light. These interdependencies serve both as compositional frameworks and environments for live performance.
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Alongside her live performance practice, she maintains an active career as a recording artist. Her full-length release, Late Morning, was recognized among The Guardian’s best contemporary albums of 2024. Moeller received her MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College and continues to collaborate within a close network of composers. She currently teaches music at the College of San Mateo and lives in Richmond with her partner and child.
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