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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/human rights activist, animal rights activist and live by compassionate ethics (am a vegan gourmet: don't eat or wear animals & do my utmost to avoid the corporate chain that profits from their suffering), raised aware of 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 their vegan cookbooks), love Gene Bauer, love the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, 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 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
(my 2nd and favorite CD thus far. I play all the instruments; recorded in my living room) and

Click for ADMIRAL CHARCOAL'S SONG
(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.