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.
