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Stephan Moore: biographical information
Brooklyn-based sound artist Stephan Moore?s recent musical work centers around the collection and use of real-world sound, the creation and perception of sonic environments, and technological manifestations of improvisation and interactivity. He develops his own performance software and builds hemispherical point-source loudspeakers for use in his performances and sound installation work. His current ongoing collaborations include the Xenolinguistics performance project with video artist Diana Slattery, projects with choreographers Yanira Castro, Helene Lesterlin, Kimberly Young, and performance artist Kyle DeCamp, and performing in the duo Evidence with sound artist Scott Smallwood. He curates a concert series at the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio called Experiments in the Studio, and co-curates an annual month-long Points in a Circle festival of performances and sound installations at the ISSUE Project Room in Brooklyn, pairing a sixteen-channel installation of his Hemisphere speakers with diverse artists. Moore has been commissioned to create sound installations and performances for a number of dance companies and site-specific venues. He has been awarded residencies by Hunter College, the Experimental Television Center and Wave Farm for his work in music and new technology. His performance and exhibition credits include Tonic (NYC), Axiom Gallery (Boston), Zeitgeist Gallery (Boston), Deep Listening Space (Kingston, NY), ffmup (Princeton, NJ), Massachusetts College of Art (Boston), Yale University, Princeton University, The Tank (NYC), Roulette (NYC), the Music and Alternative and X-Disciplinary Approaches in Sound Festival (Sheffield, UK), Sound Practice (Dartington, UK), Music Without Walls? (Leister, UK), Disjecta (Portland, Oregon), Warehouse 23 (Boston), Issue Project Room (Brooklyn), The Chocolate Factory (Queens), ACM/Siggraph, International Conference on Musical Perception and Cognition, International Computer Music Conference, Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, the Acoustical Society of America's semiannual meetings, American Theater in Higher Education's annual conference, International Society for Electronic Arts, World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, and the Burning Man Festival, among many others. As a long-time computer programmer and user of Max/MSP/Jitter, Moore has developed custom software for a number of notable performers, composers, and artists, including Pauline Oliveros, E.V. Day, and the Beastie Boys. He has also provided freelance sound design services in the art and commercial realms. He was chief sound engineer for the NPR-syndicated radio program SoundPrint, and has co-hosted the new-music radio programs hEAR iEAR and Impulse Response Radio on WRPI in Troy, New York. He curated the Alternating Currents concert series at the Deep Listening Space in Kingston, NY, and co-curated the Impulse Response series in Troy, New York for five years. Moore has also taught extensively since 1997 in all manner of music- and sound-related areas, ranging across music-notation software, recording technology, sound art, sound design for video and film, music composition, sound installation, acoustics, and interactive media programming, while on the faculty of Peabody Conservatory, Maryland Institute College of Art, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Simon's Rock College of Bard, and the Massachusetts College of Art. Since 2004, he has been the Sound Supervisor of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. |