Stephen Moore - New Perspectives in Sound Art/Technology Excerpt (2014)

An excerpt to an evening of presentations by curators, technicians and critics followed by a discussion and an open session of Q&A., Discussion moderated by Carol Parkinson with presentations by the following experts in the field, Stephan Moore, Xiaoying Juliette Yuan, Andrew Horwitz and Paul Geluso. We will also show a preview of the Intercept Tone/Vacant Level installation by Meridian7 aka Lori Napoleon.

Harvestworks picks up from our 2005 booklet THE EXTENDED INSTRUMENT: an investigation into Sound Art & Contemporary Music to track the current developments of Sound Art including its new global scope, critical discourse and evolving technical tools.

||Stephan Moore|| is a composer, improviser, audio artist, sound designer, teacher, and curator based in Brooklyn and Providence. His creative work currently manifests as electronic studio compositions, solo and group improvisations, sound installation works, scores for collaborative performance pieces, and sound designs for unusual circumstances. Evidence, his long-standing project with Scott Smallwood, has performed widely and released several recordings over the past decade. He also performs with the improvisation quartets Bumpr and Volume(n), and is a frequent collaborator with the performance groups The Nerve Tank and a canary torsi. His company, Isobel Audio, produces unique Hemisphere speakers. Since receiving an Electronic Arts MFA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2003, where he studied with Pauline Oliveros and Curtis Bahn, he has created custom music software for a number of composers and artists, and taught workshops and numerous college-level courses in composition, programming, sound art and electronic music. He is the vice president of the American Society for Acoustic Ecology, and the curator and artistic director of In The Garden of Sonic Delights at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, a 5-month exhibition of outdoor sound art across Westchester County in 2014. From late 2004 to mid-2010, he performed over 250 concerts with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, serving as a touring musician, sound engineer, and music coordinator. He is currently enrolled in the MEME Ph.D. program at Brown University.

||About Harvestworks||

Harvestworks’ mission is to present experimental sound and visual artworks created in collaboration with our Technology, Engineering, Art and Music (TEAM) Lab. The Harvestworks T.E.A.M Lab supports the creation of art works achieved through the use of new and evolving technologies and provides an environment for experimentation with project consultants, technicians, instructors and innovative practitioners in all branches of the electronic arts.

Our programs are made possible with funds from New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, mediaThe foundation, Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Materials for the Arts, Jerome Foundation, Jerome Foundation 50th Anniversary Grant, the Edwards Foundation Arts Fund, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Tokio Marine Nichido, James E. Robison Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, New Music USA’s Cary New Music Performance Fund, and the Friends of Harvestworks.