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Stephan Moore: biographical information
Stephan Moore (born February 3, 1973) is a composer, performer, audio artist, sound designer and curator based in Brooklyn and Providence. His creative work currently manifests as electronic studio compositions, improvised solo performances, sound installation works, sound designs and scores for modern dance and theater performances, software development, and the design of multi-channel sound systems for unusual circumstances. The primary concerns of his work are the localization of sound, the creation of sonic environments, the peculiarities of human aural perception, texture-based sonic improvisation, and the dynamics of collaborative, multi-disciplinary work. He develops his own performance software in Max/MSP and builds point-source Hemisphere loudspeakers for use in his own performances and sound installation work. His ongoing collaborations include the Xenolinguistics performance project with visionary video artist Diana Reed Slattery, projects with choreographers Yanira Castro and Hélène Lesterlin and performance artist Kyle DeCamp, sound design for the Nerve Tank theater collective, and the performing/recording duo Evidence with sound artist Scott Smallwood. Moore's compositions and performance works have been presented at a number of noted venues and festivals, including Issue Project Room (Brooklyn), The Stone (NYC), Roulette Intermedium's Mixology Festival (NYC), Tonic (NYC), Axiom Gallery (Boston), Deep Listening Space (Kingston, NY), La Sala Rossa (Montreal), Dance Theater Workshop (NYC), Southpaw (Brooklyn), P.S. 1 (Queens), Danspace (NYC), Joyce Soho (NYC), the 92nd Street Y (NYC), Carre L'Art (Nimes, France), ffmup (Princeton, NJ), Enemy (Chicago), Royal T (LA), EMPAC (Troy, NY), Disjecta (Portland, Oregon), University of Arizona (Tucson), SUNY Stonybrook, Massachusetts College of Art (Boston), Ball State University, The University of Miami of Ohio, Yale University, Princeton University, Sundance Film Festival, ACM/Siggraph, World Psychedelic Forum, the Seoul International Computer Music Festival, International Computer Music Conference, Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, the Acoustical Society of America's semiannual meetings, International Society for Electronic Arts, World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, Sonic Fragments, and the Burning Man Festival, among many others. Recordings of his work have been released through the Deep Listening Catalog, Televaw Records, and Wowcool Records. His 2009 solo release, To Build a Field, features six compositions created for modern dance performances. His sound installation work has been shown at Diapason Gallery in New York, Moebius in Boston, Wave Farm, the Sound Practice conference at the Dartington School for the Arts, the Mandeville Gallery at Union College, The Deep Listening Space, the Maryland Institute College of Art, The Chocolate Factory in Queens, NY, the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology in Koli, Finland, the Experimental Media Performing Arts Center in Troy, NY, and The Daniel Art Center of Simon's Rock College. As an improviser and musician, he has performed with Christian Wolff, John Paul Jones, Pauline Oliveros, William Winant, David Behrman, Alex Waterman, John King, Keith Rowe, Takehisa Kosugi, Suzanne Thorpe, Michael Haleta, MV Carbon, Andrea Parkins, Zach Layton, Troy Pohl, Curtis Bahn, David Linton, Mikel Rouse, Maria Chavez, Newton Armstrong, Shelley Burgon, Seth Cluett, Ikue Mori, Kenta Nagai, Larry Polansky, Jesse Stiles, and Joan La Barbara. He has also collaborated in performance with video artists Benton-C Bainbridge, Jonathan Lee Marcus, Walter Wright, Madeleine Gallagher, skfl, Nancy Meli Walker, Captain Entropy, Fi$h 2000, RoseRose, and LMNOPF. His work has been supported by Meet the Composer's Commissioning Music/USA Grant, the American Music Center's Live Music for Dance Grant and their Composer Assistance Program. Other support for his work, in the form of grants, commissions, and/or residencies, has come from EMPAC, Hunter College, the Mary Flagler Charitable Trust, the Experimental Television Center, Brooklyn College, Bennington College, Sugar Salon, the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University, free103point9 Wave Farm and mediaThe Foundation. Moore has 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. 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 Animal Collective, John King, Pauline Oliveros, E.V. Day, Alex Waterman, The Beastie Boys, Benton-C Bainbridge and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. He curates the annual Floating Points Festival at ISSUE Project Room in Brooklyn, which celebrated its fifth year in 2010. The festival pairs an average of 25 artists per year with the 16-channel Hemisphere speaker system that is permanently installed there. He has also served on ISSUE's Art Advisory Board since its inception. His other curatorial activities have included the 2010 Mixology Festival at Roulette Intermedium and the Experiments in the Studio concert series at the Merce Cunningham Studios (2007-9). 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. Between 2000 and 2003, he co-hosted the new music radio programs hEAR iEAR and Impulse Response Radio on WRPI-91.5 FM in Troy, New York. Moore was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised in Marquette, Michigan, on the southern coast of Lake Superior. He graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy in 1991, and Western Michigan University in 1996, where he studied composition with C. Curtis-Smith and Ramon Zupko, and studied voice, creative writing, computer science, mathematics and audio engineering. During a three-year stay in Baltimore, he taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art and the Peabody Conservatory while serving as the lead engineer for the National Public Radio-syndicated program SOUNDPRINT and as a programmer for the loudspeaker manufacturer Polk Audio. In 2000, he moved to Troy, New York to study at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with Pauline Oliveros, Curtis Bahn, Nao Bustamante, Michael Century and Neil Rolnick, earning his MFA in Electronic Arts in 2003. From late 2004 to mid-2010, he performed over 250 concerts with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, serving as their sound engineer and music coordinator, and as one of their regular touring musicians. In the fall of 2010, he began his PhD studies in the Multimedia & Electronic Music Experiments (MEME) program at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. |