Anthony Moore

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Anthony Moore (also known as Anthony More , * 1948 ) is a British experimental musician, composer and producer . He co-founded the band Slapp Happy , worked with Henry Cow and recorded several solo albums. Moore co-wrote several Pink Floyd songs . He worked with Richard Wright on his album Broken China (1996), with Kevin Ayers on various projects and wrote lyrics for Trevor Rabin's album Can't Look Away (1989) . Moore has been a professor at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne since 1996 , and was its rector from 2000 to 2004.

Live and act

Anthony Moore and Peter Blegvad , both students at St. Christopher School in Letchworth Garden City , played in various bands. After school, Moore studied Indian classical music with Viram Jasani in 1969 and wrote his first film music for David Larcher's Mare's Tale . In 1971 Moore moved to Hamburg , where he recorded two albums of experimental music. In 1972 Blegvad also came to Hamburg, and together with Moore's friend and later wife Dagmar Krause , they founded the avant-garde pop band Slapp Happy .

They recorded two albums with the German rock band Faust . Polydor released the album Sort Of in 1972 , but turned down the follow-up album Casablanca Moon . The band then moved to London and re-recorded Casablanca Moon for Virgin Records . The album was released in 1974 as Slapp Happy .

In 1974 and 1975 Slapp Happy played two albums with the art rock band Henry Cow , Desperate Straights and In Praise of Learning . Despite the success, first Moore and then Blegvad left the project to start a solo career each. Krause stayed with Henry Cow; Slapp Happy was over. In 1982/83, 1997 and 2000 there were short musical reunions of Slapp Happy, and in 1991 the three musicians worked together on the television opera project Camera (based on an idea by Krause, Musik Moore, Text Blegvad).

1977 appeared on Virgin Moore's solo album Out , on which Kevin Ayers and Andy Summers had worked. Since there was no commercial success, Virgin terminated the contract with Moore. For smaller record companies he released the albums Flying Doesn't Help (1978) and World Service (1981). Moore subsequently worked as a freelance composer and wrote songs and film scores. The albums he has produced include a. the debut album of This Heat and Angel Station of Manfred Mann's Earth Band (both 1979). He worked with Pink Floyd on two albums, A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987) and The Division Bell (1994).

In 1996 Moore was appointed professor at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne , where he was rector from 2000 to 2004 and where he still works today.

In 2002 Moore founded the trio LMS together with Jörg Lindenmaier and Peter C. Simon , which performed in France and Germany.

Discography

Bands and projects

With Slapp Happy
  • Sort Of (1972, LP, Polydor )
  • Slapp Happy ( aka Casablanca Moon ) (1974, LP, Virgin Records )
  • Acnalbasac Noom (1980, LP, Recommended Records)
  • Ça Va (1997, CD, V2 Records)
  • Live in Japan (2000, CD, FMN Records)
With Henry Cow
  • Desperate Straights (1974, LP, Virgin Records)
  • In Praise of Learning (1975, LP, Virgin Records)
With Peter Blegvad and Dagmar Krause
  • Camera (2000, CD, Blueprint Records)

solo

Albums
  • Pieces from the Cloudland Ballroom (1971, LP, Polydor)
  • Reed Whistle and Sticks (1972, LP, Polydor)
  • Secrets of the Blue Bag (1972, LP, Polydor)
  • Out (1976, LP, Virgin Records)
  • Flying Doesn't Help (1978, LP, Quango Music Group)
  • World Service (1981, LP, Do It Records)
  • The Only Choice (1984, LP, Parlophone)
Singles
  • "Johnny's Dead" / "Mr.Rainbow" (1975, 7 ", Virgin Records)
  • "Catch a Falling Star" / "Back to the Top" (1976, 7 ", Virgin Records)
  • "World Service" / "Diving Girl" (1981, 7 ", Do It Records, DUN 16)

Filmography (selection)

  • 1978: Mirador
  • 1979: Hurrycan
  • 1980: now and everything
  • 1982: Uliisses
  • 1986: What really happened between the pictures?
  • 1988: After Rabbit
  • 1998: Painter's Day

Fonts

  • "Hommage to Pink Floyd", in: Friedrich Kittler , Thomas Macho and Sigrid Weigel , Between Noise and Enlightment , Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2002, pp. 371–376.
  • "Vox per-> sonare" (with Siegfried Zielinski ), in: Cornelia Epping-Jäger, Erika Linz (ed.), Media / Voices , Cologne: DuMont, 2003, pp. 282–298.
  • "Electricity that Shines Into the Light", in: Peter Berz, Annette Bitsch and Bernhard Siegert, FAKtisch (Festschrift for Friedrich Kittler), Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2003, pp. 193–199.
  • "The Musical Yardstick", in: Siegfried Zielinski, Silvia M. Wagnermaier, Variantology 1. On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies , Cologne: Walther Koenig, 2005, pp. 185-195.
  • "Mercury Acoustic Delays and Natural Computing", in: [The] xxxxx [Reader] , Berlin: OpenMute 2006. p. 192, ISBN 978-0955066443
  • "Aromatic Vapors. Tuning and Measurement in Greek and Chinese Antiquity", in: Friedrich Kittler, Ana Ofak, Media before Media. Transmission, disruption, storage until 1700 , Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2006.
  • "Transactional Fluctuations 1, 2, 3 - (Reflections on Sound)", in: Siegfried Zielinski, Eckhard Fürlus Variantology 3, 4 & 5. On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies , Cologne: Walther König, 2011.

Exhibitions

literature

  • Harald Inhülsen : Who is Anthony Moore? First part , in: Sounds. Die Zeitschrift für Popmusik , February 1982, pp. 29–31.
  • Harald Inhülsen: Who is Anthony Moore? Second part , in: Sounds. Die Zeitschrift für Popmusik , March 1982, pp. 42–44.

Web links

Commons : Anthony Moore  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anthony Moore called himself on his solo albums from Flying Doesn't Help (1978) Anthony More .
  2. ↑ The original recordings of Casablanca Moon were released in 1980 by Recommended Records as Acnalbasac Noom .
  3. ↑ Angel Station, UK edition on Discogs
  4. ↑ http://www.dortmunder-u.de/veranstaltung/klangkunst-im-museum-ostwall-10
  5. ↑ http://zkm.de/event/2012/03/sound-art
personal data
SURNAME Moore, Anthony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES More, Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British experimental musician, composer and producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1948