![]() ![]() (The Ludlow-Orchard Community Organization). She was on the original advisory board of the first HOWL Festival of East Village Art, as well as two other active groups: (which she co-founded with composer Norman Yamada, and they collaborated on several actions with musician Marc Ribot as a principle organizer) and Moore founded L.O.C.O. In the early 2000s Moore was active in several activist groups concerned with maintaining low income housing and the creative and cultural heritage of New York's East Village and Lower East Side. This 2nd CD – which was produced entirely in her living room, before the boom of home computer recording – bears the still-rare distinction of being a collection of songs in which one female artist not only played every single instrument (including violin, cello, piano, guitar, bass, drums, children's toys, tape loops and synthesizers) but also did the recording and mixing entirely by herself as well (the only element completed externally was the mastering). Jeff Buckley contributes instrument work on two tracks) and Home Wreckordings 1997–1999 (2000), a layered dreamscape that was created in the two years following Buckley's untimely death in 1997. Moore has two CD's, originally released on Knitting Factory Records: Admiral Charcoal's Song (1996 primarily music from her show, The Hinger. Miller and was produced at Performance Space 122, and a third piece, "The Larynx Chalet" (1996), was presented at La Mama ETC. The casts often included her parents' friends or her own Fluxus artist Larry Miller and her then-partner Jeff Buckley appeared in "Cure for the Biting of a Madde Dogge", based on Olde English medical texts, presented by Franklin Furnace at Cooper Union and La Mama ETC in 1991–1992 Her piece, "The Hinger" (1993) also starred Mr. These small pieces evolved into full-scale low-budget works surrealist-inspired musical theater pieces with live music, where she wrote the scripts and music, built the sets, sewed and painted the costumes, made all the props, and ran the lights and sound cues. When she was 15 years old, she began doing her own multi-media performance art pieces, sometimes solo and often with friends/collaborators such as Clarinda Mac Low and Guy Yarden at city venues such as Performance Space 122, Movement Research and Judson Church. and Europe), MacArthur Award recipient Richard Foreman (in his play, I've Got the Shakes, Ridge Theater (including the Obie-winning production Everyday Newt Berman by composer John Moran and Jungle Movie), filmmaker/choreographer Jo Andres, Julia Heyward, David Patrick Kelly, Taj Mahal, Drag King Diane Torr, and more. She spent many years performing in experimental works by artists such as MacArthur Award recipient John Jesurun, (including his plays Deep Sleep and Shatterhand Massacre, in the U.S. Moore was born and raised amidst New York City's avant-garde art scene of the 1970s. After slightly over two decades of work devoted to experimental art, music and activist realms in NYC (1984–2007) Moore went to work in areas of animal rescue & care and animal rights advocacy. She is the daughter of Peter Moore, a photographer of experimental art and artists in NYC (from the 1950s through his death in 1993) and his wife, Barbara, an art historian. Notable for her participation at a very young age in performance art and experimental theater productions, and for her own music, she is also known to some as a muse of the singer Jeff Buckley. Rebecca Moore (born May 21, 1968) is an American musician, actress and animal rights activist.
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