Ted Moore

Ted Moore is a composer, sound designer, and music educator living in Minneapolis, MN. His work has been reviewed as “an impressive achievement both artistically and technically” (Jay Gabler, VitaMN), “wonderfully creepy” (Matthew Everett, TC  Daily Planet), and “epic” (Rob Hubbard, Pioneer Press). Moore’s work focuses on live electronic processing with live performers using the digital signal processing programming language SuperCollider. His music has been performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble, Spektral Quartet, Yarn/Wire, AVIDduo, Firebird Ensemble, RenegadeEnsemble, and the Enkidu Quartet, and has been  performed across the country including Fredericksburg VA (Electroacoustic Barn Dance); Berkeley CA (Festival of Contemporary Music); Chicago IL (Access Contemporary Music); Kirksville MO (New Horizons Music Festival); Champaign-Urbana IL (NASA); Denton TX (Denton Women’s Club); Minneapolis MN (Cedar Cultural Center, The Southern Theater); Decorah IA (Luther College); and Richmond KY (Eastern Kentucky University).

Moore has been composer-in-residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (Nebraska City), and has been featured as a sound installation artist by the St. Paul Public Library, TC Make, and notably at the 2014 Northern Spark Festival in Minneapolis. He is also an avid improviser, performing on the laptop, especially as one half of Binary Canary, a woodwinds-laptop improvisation duo. As a sound designer, Moore has worked with many independent companies, notably on Savage Umbrella’s original productions: Care Enough, Emma Woodhouse is Not a Bitch, Rain Follows the Plow, Leaves, Rapture, and These are the Men. He has taught music and electronic music in a variety of  capacities, including at The Walden School’s Young Musicians Program (Dublin NH), MacPhail Center for Music (Minneapolis), Slam Academy (Minneapolis), and McNally Smith College of Music (St. Paul).