Kevin Moore (born May 26, 1967) is a keyboard player, vocalist, composer, and founder of the Chroma Key music project. He is also a former member of the American progressive rock/rock band, Dream Theater, one of the founders of the progressive rock band O.S.I. and has composed a movie soundtrack. Throughout his career, he became famous for his emotional music and lyrics, his nomadic lifestyle, and the use of spoken word examples.
Moore began his musical career in a progressive metal band, Dream Theater. She contributed music and lyrics to the band's first three studio albums, but left the band during recording Awake to pursue her own musical interests. Starting with the year 1998 Dead Air for Radios , he has released electronica, ambient music through his solo project Chroma Key. Moore has been a guest on several albums, including three Fates Warning albums. This led Moore to form OSI with Fates Warning guitarist Jim Matheos in 2002, a band that combines progressive metal with electronica. The fourth OSI album, Fire Make Thunder, was released in March 2012.
Moore has been working on other solo projects since leaving Dream Theater. While living in Costa Rica, he produced a bi-weekly radio program for Radio for Peace International; a compilation of this work was released as Memory Hole 1 . While living in Turkey, Moore produced the band's debut album, Makine and wrote a soundtrack for two Turkish films. The soundtrack for the first movie, Okul , was released in 2004 as Ghost Book . The soundtrack for the second film, KÃÆ'¼ÃÆ'§ÃÆ'¼k Kiyamet , titled Shine , was released in 2010.
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Biography
Initial days
Moore, born on Long Island, New York, started his musical career at Kings Park, Long Island, studied piano at the age of six and wrote his first song at the age of 12. After graduating from high school in 1985, Moore briefly attended SUNY Fredonia, where he studied classical music, before returning home to form Majesty bands with childhood guitarist John Petrucci and bassist John Myung, who had recruited drummer Mike Portnoy (fellow Long Islander) during their brief enrollment at the Berklee College of Music. Singer Chris Collins handled vocal duties for Majesty, but he was later replaced by Charlie Dominici (and finally James LaBrie) and the band changed their name to Dream Theater. Dream Theater Dream Theater
Dream Theater's debut studio album Dream In 1989's Dream and Day Unite, which earned group comparisons with famous progressive rock bands such as Rush and QueensrÃÆ'¿che. However, their major breakthrough came in 1992 with the album Images and Words , featuring the band's highest charting single to date, "Pull Me Under". The song, which included the lyrics by Moore, reached # 10 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. After the relentless touring of the second album, the band also released live albums, Live at Marquee , and video, Images and Words: Live In Tokyo
In 1994, the band released their third studio album, Awake , which is the band's highest chart album to date with Moore, reaching # 32. The album featured a typical Moore track, a piano-driven ballad called "Space-Dye Vest." Shortly before the album was mixed, though, Moore announced to the entire band that he wanted to concentrate on his own musical interests and would stop Dream Theater. According to Portnoy, Moore became interested in his own freedom of work as opposed to the band's environmental compromises. Although Dream Theater has since invited her to play a reunion, Moore says she prefers to move forward rather than look back. He also refused to take part in the official Dream Theater biography titled Lifting Shadows.
During his time in Dream Theater, Moore wrote lyrics to songs on individual band albums as well as to several band and b-side demos. On Dream and Day Unite, he wrote "Status Seeker", "Light Fuse and Get Away", "Just a Time Problem", and parts of The Killing Hand. "On Images and Words, he writes" Pull Me Under "," Surrounded "," Wait for Sleep ", and the" Metropolis - Part I: 'The Miracle and the Sleeper '. "In Awake , the songs" 6:00 "," Lie ", and" Space-Dye Vest "all featured the lyrics.Remote with the lyrics including" Do not Look Past Me, "A Vision" and "Two Far."
Chroma Key
After leaving Dream Theater, Moore moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico and began writing material for his solo album. A demo tape known as Music Meant to Be Heard is shared among fans, and his songs include many examples of words from the interviews Moore recorded during his cross-country journey. Most of these songs were later released in 1999 on a limited edition CD called This is a Record .
In 1998, Moore released his first solo album, Dead Air For Radios , with the name Chroma Key on a homemade record label, Fight Evil Records. Mark Zonder and Joey Vera of Fates Warning served as supporting musicians for the recording. The album features dark, ambient sound, closer to Peter Gabriel and Tori Amos than the complex and complicated Dream Theater styles. Behind, Dream Theater fans noticed that Moore had subtly explored the composition style in "Space-Dye Vest."
In 2000, Moore moved to Los Angeles, California, where he recorded the digital theme You Go Now. Line-ups for that note are Moore, David Iscove (guitar) and Steve Tushar (loop, programming). During his stay at westcoast, Moore earned the BFA at the California Institute of the Arts, where he created a little-known documentary called the Oklar Revolution, which depicted the interference of Southern California society. He then moved to Costa Rica, where he worked for Radio For Peace International, producing a bi-weekly radio activist program. In fact, some of Moore's work on Radio for Peace International was later released in an internet album called Memory Hole 1 .
In 2004, Moore scoured public domain films looking for one that emit a certain mood, intending to write a pseudo-soundtrack for it. The film she chose was Age 13, an educational film from the 1950s, originally for use in schools. He picks up the movie, slows it down to half speed, and lets it dictate mood, texture, and even run time from the song he wrote for it. The resulting album is titled Graveyard Mountain Home , which includes a DVD that contains a set of movies for Moore's music.
OSI
In 2003, Fates Warning guitarist Jim Matheos invited Moore to work with him in a new music project. Moore worked with Matheos before, appearing as a guest keyboardist on the 1989 Fates Warning album Perfect Symmetry , 1997 album A Pleasant Shade of Gray and 2000 albums Disconnected . The new project involves Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy and bassist Cynic/Chapman Stick, Sean Malone. This is the first time Moore has worked with Portnoy since leaving Dream Theater nearly 10 years earlier. The band was formed called OSI, and they released the album Office of Strategic Influence . Musically, it can be described as a mixture of dark focus and Chroma Key melodies with guitars and weighs Fates Warning and Dream Theater. Moore assumed a vocal task.
In April 2006, Moore and Matheos released a second OSI album called Free , a collaboration made easier by Moore's temporary relocation to Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The album once again featured Portnoy on drums. Unlike the first OSI album, based on the US government information spinning faction, Free is about personal relationships in Moore's life. Shortly after the release of the album, OSI also released an EP which included a remix of three Free songs and a video of the title track. In spring 2006, Moore and Matheos alluded to the possibility of turdates in album support, but nothing ever materialized.
In September 2008, Moore announced on his website that he had worked for several months with Jim Matheos and drummer Gavin Harrison (from the band Porcupine Tree) on the third OSI album. Blood was released in April 2009.
OSI's fourth album, Fire Make Thunder, was released in March 2012.
Movie soundtrack
In 2004, Moore moved to Istanbul, Turkey, and composed the soundtrack for the horror film Oki ( The School ) which was later released as a solo recording titled Ghost Message . The music contains many traditional instruments derived from Moore that remain in Costa Rica and Turkey. In 2006, Moore once again teamed up with Turkish producers for another soundtrack project. Movies, KÃÆ'¼ÃÆ'§ÃÆ'¼k K? Yamet ( The Little Apocalypse ), tells the horrible story of a family deciding to rent a summer house by the beach. The soundtrack CD Shine was released in December 2010 after a funding campaign in Kickstarter Second film, Okul and KÃÆ'¼ÃÆ'§ÃÆ'¼k K? Yamet , is based on a book written by the Turkish writer Do? u YÃÆ'¼cel.
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While in Turkey, he also produced a radio show with Theron Patterson and P? Nar TÃÆ'¼ren for AÃÆ'§? K Radyo in Istanbul.
In March 2007, Moore played an hour-long concert, held at Balo Stage Turkey on 23 March. It was described as an experiment to "play some songs for local audiences... with longer and more elaborate performances planned for the future." In April 2007, Moore announced plans to pre-production the band's debut album Turkish Makine movie rock [1] which was released in April 2010.
In September 2013, Fates Warning vocalist Ray Alder revealed in an interview that Moore returned to the United States and learned to become a doctor. According to Alder, Moore was in his third year of medical school in 2013.
Since 2015, Moore has had a Patreon page for Chroma Key, gathering crowdfunding for song release.
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Influence
In an April 2007 interview, keyboardist Sonata Arctica Henrik Klingenberg revealed that he was really influenced by Moore when he (Klingenberg) started playing rock music. Television and film composer Roy Harter was one of Moore's personal disciples early in his Dream Theater career. Producer/Composer Michael J. Bazini (aka DJ Butterface) is one of Moore's private students early in Dream Theater's career as well.
Discography
- Involvement on another album
Gear
- Pictures and Words
- Roland JD-800 - used for piano, distorted organ, synth pad and bell
- Korg DW-8000 - used for solo sounds for songs like Take the Time and Pull Me Under
- Korg DSS-1 - used for sample
- Roland D-50 - used primarily for strings and bells
- Roland D-70
- A grand piano might be used on an album, replaced with a live JD-800 piano.
- Music in Tour Progress
- Roland JD-800 at the lower level of the Apex two tier stand
- Korg DW-8000 at the top level of the Apex tribune
- Korg DSS-1 in the stands on Kevin's right
- Build
- Roland JD-800 - used for piano, synth pad and the most famous is the solo sound "Wailing Guitar" used at 6:00 and Scarred
most strings and even distorted organs (forwarded out) come from a string card set, which contains piano and organ patches. Â Â so that the string is based on pcm wave does not exist in the stock unit, the actual string sets two cards (raw pcm data and patch)
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- Korg DW-8000- is used for solo sounds for songs like 6:00 and The Mirror and for organ pipe sounds.
- Acoustic Piano - used in Space Dye Vest
- Shelf sampler is also used during this album, most likely Akai
- OSI/Chroma Key/Solo
Kevin switched to using mainly soft synths. He still uses Kurzweil K2000 and Yamaha CP-70 piano, the first release of "dead air for radios" all k2000 and cp70
On "You Go Now", in addition to this, Access Virus, Moog Memorymoog Plus and Nord Lead shelf. On the Free OSI album, it uses the Neko OpenLabs workstation.
References
External links
- Chroma Key official site
- Official Facebook site
- Japanese Kevin Moore Site
- Unofficial fan sites
- Shine the project page in Kickstarter
- Chroma Key Patreon page
- Kevin Moore Bandcamp Page
Related ribbons :
- OSI's official site
- Dream Theater's official site
- Fate of official site warning
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