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 Cooper
Moore is a composer-improviser,
instrumentalist, designer and builder of musical instruments,
and music educator, living and working in New York City. A native
of the Piedmont area of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia,
Cooper-Moore began studying piano at age eight. Four years later,
he was listening to the musics of Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus,
Ornette Coleman, and working on improvisation.
He earned a B.A. in Music Education from The Catholic University
of America in Washington, D.C. and later studied composition-arranging
at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. Moving to New
York in 1973, Cooper-Moore leased the five-floor 501 Canal Street
building and transformed it into an artist live-in/work space,
making possible numerous experimentations between performing
and visual artists.
While his attention was focused on piano performance in New
York clubs and touring abroad, Cooper-Moore began designing
and building musical instruments and played them in collaboration
with all kinds of artist at lofts, galleries, artist spaces,
museums, and in the streets of New York City.
He has over the years built an extensive instrument collection,
using such material as paper, bamboo, metal, wood, and acrylic.
He most often performs with his ashimba (a type of xylophone),
bass diddly-bow, horizontal hoe-handle harp, three stringed
fretless banjo, and electric mouth bow. His instruments have
been exhibited at the Thread Waxing Gallery, NYC, and The Goddard
Riverside Community Center, NYC.
His performance, A MINDSET, resulting from
a Diverse Forums Grant, was presented by Dance Theater Workshop
in 1992. This was a work comparing the criminal justice and
the social welfare systems in America.
Other noted projects include his collaboration with ecologist
and coordinator of the first Earth Day, Sam Love, on their work,
Visions of Tomorrow. This show toured one hundred college campuses
in 44 states. There was the year long exploration with book
and paper artist Susan Share on her Unfolded Worlds, his work
with Moving Spirits Dance Theater, and his present collaboration
in the experimental improvisational instrumental trio, Triptych
Myth.
His teaching and workshop experiences include seven years as
a music therapist at the Harlem Interfaith Counseling Service
in NYC, and five years at the Wolf Trap Foundation in Virginia
where he developed methods for using music to teach subjects
in Headstart classrooms. His innovative approaches were recognized
by National Headstart which hired him to help reproduce his
work across America.
Cooper-Moore has a teaching association with The New School
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DISCOGRAPHY
Valley of Search - Alan Braufman 4tet - India Navigation
The Birth of a Being - David S. Ware, Gene Ashton (Cooper-Moore),
Marc Edwards - Hat Hut
William Parker’s In Order to Survive - Black
Saint
Compassion Seizes Bed-Stuy - William Parker’s In Order
to Survive -Homestead Records
The Peach Orchard - William Parker’s In Order to Survive
- AUM Fidelity
Posium Pendasem, William Parker’s In Order
to Survive - FMP
Vision Festival 1997 Compiled vol.1 - Coleus in Bloom/Paradox
, Cooper-Moore Quartet - AUM Fidelity
Sunrise In The Tone World - William Parker & The Little
Huey Creative Music Orchestra - AUM Fidelity
Radiance - The Susie Ibarra Trio - Hopscotch
Flower After Flower - Susie Ibarra project - avant
Bill Cole‚s Untempered Ensemble
Live in Greenfield, Massachusetts - Boxholder
The Untempered Ensemble – bill cole- Duets & Solos
Volume I -Boxholde
Seasoning the Greens, bill cole - Boxholder
Deep in the Neighborhood of History and Influence -
Cooper-Moore, Solo Piano - Hopscotch
Triptych myth – hopscotch
America - Cooper-moore & assif Tsahar - Hopscotch |
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sounds
choir
1. - trouble
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PROCTS:
piano solo
hand built instrumnet solo
triptych myth -
cooper-moore
tom abbs
chad taylor
voices
- a choral ensemble
He
has performed in the bands of Vincent Chancey, Dr. Bill Cole, Joseph
Daley, Tiye Giraud, Joseph Jarman, Masahiko Kono, Diedre Murray,
William Parker, Perry Robinson, Susie Ibarra, Warren Smith and Butch
Morris; with the dance companies of Jill Becker and Dancers, Robin
Becker, Forces of Nature, Anita Gonzales, Elizabeth Gottlieb, Koo
Dance, Movin Spirits Dance Theater and Joan Miller's Dance Players.
He has recorded with Dr. Bill Cole, Susie Ibarra, William Parker,
assif tsahar, David S. Ware, Steve Swell, Alan Braufman, and the
George Carver Band.
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