Brian Moran - electronics

Performance description: CIRCUIT-BENT TOYS AND NOISE PEDAL (WHRRRRRR-KLIK-KLIK-SSSSSSS). FREE SOUND FRAGMENTS FOR A BLOWING-UP WORLD (KERRR-CHUNKKK).

Dancer-musician-sound artist Brian Moran has been working in New York since 1981, beginning with experi-mental dance and expanding out to performance art, live video/sound, improvisation, DJing, punk, and con-temporary theater. His career as a massage therapist and a fascination with energy work and body psychology have informed both his movement works, with their body quirks and obsessive gestures, and his music, which channels the tics of Tourette's Syndrome, the rituals of the autistic, the obsessiveness of the addict, and the subtleties of life deviance. He currently uses numerous analog synthesizers, circuit-bent toys, effects pedals, field recordings, and home burned CD-Rs in his music and sound design, which has been influenced by artists, writers, and musicians such as John Cage, J. G Ballard, Richard Grossman, AMM, and Henry Darger.

Known in the 1980s for his Blood Boy performances (often seen at the notorious King Tut's Wa-Wa Hut), Mr. Moran has choreographed his own solo and duet projects and performed internationally with the Yoshiko Chuma, Stephanie Skura, and Ishmael Houston-Jones dance companies, and across the U.S. with the live video group NNeng (with Meli Walker and Benton Bainbridge). Other collaborators have included Charles Cohen, Mark Ashwill, Lydia Lunch, Richard Kern, Ikue Mori, Hopi Kamayama, and Molly Davies.

An impresario of avant garde music, Moran curates +/-, a series of DJ/dancer improvisations, and Special Input, an avant/electronic series. He has been awarded numerous ETC and Meet the Composer grants, and in 1999-2000 received a residency at the Experimental Film and Television Center. In addition to Chainworks, his recent projects include Operating System Bug, an electronic/analog music performance and recording project, and Monoliz, a series of minimal 3" CD soundscapes designed for headphone listening. Between 1998 and 2002 he released several limited CDs, including Low Level Activity, Music for NNeng, and Worry. The solo disk Unsound Methods is being prepared for release.

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