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Rebecca Moore

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About Me


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keep dreaming and sparks flying. (photo of an installation by andrea bullock. beautiful photo by someone named Tania!)
BIO:
I grew up on an exit from the Lincoln Tunnel, west side, New York City; an industrial place and the drug block for all the concerts at Madison Square Garden. Childhood was a strange mix of getting by in a dangerous NYC neighborhood, juxtaposed with absorbing the work of many very counter-cultural, eccentric artists.
I feel lucky to have often sat as a child at the feet of rebels like John Cage and Patti Smith, Meredith Monk and Richard Foreman, Larry Miller and Geoff Hendricks (fluxus artists), Allen Ginsburg and William S. Burroughs, Steve Reich and Philip Glass, Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman, as they performed their work. I have performed with many different kinds of avant-garde artists as well, since childhood (My father Peter Moore had a dayjob but at night would go and photograph artists and their work. He passed away in 1993, and left behind an archive of over half a million negatives; pictures of a New York that doesn't exist anymore.) Even though I often do a lot of very simple kinds of melodic songwriting, I have deep roots in experimental realms.
OTHER INTERESTS AND PURSUITS: community activist, animal rights supporter (don't eat or wear them & do my utmost to avoid the corporate chain that profits from their suffering), interested in human rights and environmental-sustainable-recycling issues, trained in soldering and lost-wax carving; love gardeners, arundhati roy, victor jara, john stewart and michael moore; love WBAI, Jane Goodall, the Post Punk Kitchen show (and her vegan cookbooks), love Gene Bauer, The Animal Liberation Front, the work of The Rural Studio, the live-animation sculptures of gregory barsamian, the art of andy goldsworthy, The Brooklyn Museum; am really handy with a screw gun, obsessed with fireflies, hoping to learn welding and want to take a course in architecture and engineering for dummies so I can build small eco-friendly homes for people who need them.

For more information:
www.bluviolin.com
(My best friend Deirdre made that site and took all the photos).Also, music can be found at CDBaby.com: Click for HOME WRECKORDINGS
.."color:black"(my 2nd and favorite CD thus far. I play all the instruments; recorded in my living room) and
Click for ADMIRAL CHARCOAL'S SONG
.."color:black" (my first cd. theater-style songs from a surrealist musical I did on the Lower East Side in 1994 featuring actors, puppets, recycled materials, a lot of inanimate objects moved by magnets, and a real tesla coil which unfortunately blew out the power for the whole PS 122 building. My voice is very different on this cd as these are the first songs I ever wrote.)
These cd's are now also available via iTunes:
Click for HOME WRECKORDINGS
Click for ADMIRAL CHARCOAL'S SONG
Thanks very much for visiting.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/20/2006
Band Website: bluviolin.com
Band Members: RM (violin, piano, vocals, noises - almost all instruments on home wreckordings)
live, these friends form the band:
Dan Kaufman (electric guitar)
Christy Davis (drums)
Danny Tunick (bass, piano)
Ursula Wiskoski (electric cello)
Pinky Weitzman (viola)

and sometimes also our friends:
John Frazier (guitar)
Steve Berson (cello)

Influences: Musical influences: My bandmates, friends, the artists i grew up around; John Zorn's whole world, the early live performance art & music of They Might be Giants; most of all, the magical and incomparable Hugo Largo and their inspiring lead singer, Mimi Goese.
But all the artists I have been fortunate to have worked with in different mediums, have inspired & taught me. Some are:
(In Theater and Performance Art) John Jesurun, Richard Foreman, Ridge Theater, Drag King Diane Torr, Pat Oleszko, Judith Ren-Lay, Richard Elovich, Martina Torr, Jessica Liebman, Christina Campanella, Eileen Myles, John Moran, Tim Miller, Liz Prince, Larry Miller, Wanda Phipps, Guy Yarden, Carmelita Tropicana, Penny Arcade, Shem Bitterman, Steve Buscemi, Eric Ehn, Martin Epstein, Jan Leslie Harding, David Patrick Kelly, Julia Stiles, Mac Wellman, Jim Simpson, Michael Sexton, John O'Keefe, James Goddard, Hilary Blecher, Shana McKay Burns, Guy Yarden, Karen Kimmel, Julia Heyward...
(In Dance) Jo Andres, Clarinda Mac Low, Carol MacDowell, Mimi Goese, DD Dorvillier, Sally Silvers and Bruce Andrews, studying at Merce Cunningham...
(In Film) Jo Andres, Larry Fessenden, Michael Buscemi, Joel Schlemowitz, Alex Wolfe, Michelle Mahrer, Toni Dove, Dayton Taylor, Uzi Parnes, MM Serra, Eric Schaeffer, Margaret Schnipper, Jason Brandenberg, Jeff and James Israel, Katherine Dieckmann, Jason Lucero, and my Super-8 teachers at Millenium Film Workshop...

Sounds Like: a happy door

Record Label: One due out on Tzadik
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Rare Video Sighting

My best friend Deirdre has quite a gift with light... I am really fortunate to have been caught in her lens more than a few times, and be in her archive along with some of my favorite female (and othe...
Posted by Rebecca Moore on Tue, 20 May 2008 06:21:00 PST

SONGS OF REBELLION III this thursday

(not performing - I just help curate and host this event. This is a bunch of performers that I deeply admire, and it is for a good cause.) Introducing Ladies and Gentlemen -- This Thursday, January 2...
Posted by Rebecca Moore on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:50:00 PST

Last night I went to a candlelight vigil for a horse.

With all the basically overwhelming things going on in the world, it felt more important to me than ever to go to this candlelight vigil in honor of a horse named Smoothie that died in NYC last week. ...
Posted by Rebecca Moore on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:38:00 PST

more demos up - just for a day or two

I put two more demos I have done at home up on myspace. THESE ARE JUST DEMOS, THINGS I DID ON 8 TRACK IN LIVINGROOM. so the recordings are not flawless. The cd will be very different. One song w...
Posted by Rebecca Moore on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:59:00 PST

Update on the arrests of Ribot and Moore

Hi just an update to sort of end this chapter: Marc Ribot and I had a pleasant day in court, guided by David Fischman, Kind Attorney.  After some tense hours, we were given an ACD (Acquittal Cont...
Posted by Rebecca Moore on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:38:00 PST

why record 3 is taking a bit long....

It is proving to be a while now between cd's... some people ask me what is going on with this, so I just am offering some explanation:I work a dayjob, am not a full time artist.  I work in a factory o...
Posted by Rebecca Moore on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:37:00 PST

well, yes I got arrested

I really did not intend to but at the 9th hour it just felt like what I had to do.  For me it is really not about just small music spaces that host challenging and influential forms of music that...
Posted by Rebecca Moore on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:55:00 PST