Ted Moore

Theodore Moore is a composer, sound designer, multimedia artist, and music educator living in Chicago, currently as a doctoral fellow of music composition at the University of Chicago. 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). Ted’s work focuses on live electronic processing with live performers using the digital signal processing programming language SuperCollider. His music has been premiered by the International Contemporary Ensemble, Spektral Quartet, Yarn/Wire, Splinter Reeds, Quince Vocal Ensemble, AVIDduo, Firebird Ensemble, RenegadeEnsemble, and the Enkidu Quartet, and has been performed across the country including Spectrum (NYC), Root Signals Electronic Music Festival (Statesboro, GA), Electroacoustic Barn Dance (Fredericksburg, VA), Iowa Composers Forum (Decorah, IA), Eastern Kentucky University (Richmond, KY), Festival of Contemporary Music (Berkeley, CA), The Walden School (Dublin, NH), Access Contemporary Music (Chicago, IL), North American Saxophone Alliance (Champaign-Urbana, IL, Lubbock, TX), New Horizons Music Festival (Kirksville, MO), MusicNOW (Univ. of Northern Texas, Denton, TX), La Crosse New Music Festival (La Crosse, WI), and Cedar Cultural Center (Minneapolis, MN). Ted has also 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 one half of Binary Canary, a woodwinds-laptop improvisation duo. As a sound designer, Ted 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, and Rapture. He has taught music in a variety of capacities, including at McNally Smith College of Music (St. Paul), MacPhail Center for Music (Minneapolis), The Walden School’s Young Musicians Program and Creative Musicians Retreat (Dublin, NH), and Slam Academy (Minneapolis).