michael moses

My aim has always been towards a collaborative relationship of artists in pursuit of ways to integrate various elements and forms ranging from the deeply traditional to the unfathomably surprising. Through the transformation of these core elements into an expanded vocabulary, a unique cohesion. I always have hoped to spark an awakening in the listener to insights and perspectives that help bring together and illuminate the mysteries of nature, spirituality, humanity, and the creative threads that link them all.
Since all languages are individually limited by their nature, I am passionate about joining sound/music to dance, spoken word, voices of the earth, electronic manipulations, and great silences to serve the mission statement.
After an early, youthful exploration of instrumental styles and the art of performance, I established a theater company to explore the relationships of sound to movement, along with spoken word and improvisations with language (Including human, animal, elemental and symbolic)
I have never been completely satisfied with the vast, but limited, vocabulary of sound to express the depths of insight. I spent seven years (1989 -1996) working exclusively with dance companies and universities as a composer/accompanist exploring the intimate relationship between sound vibrations and the moving body (from a cellular level through modern and cross-cultural dance forms.)
Through the following years I moved my work towards the desire to illuminate the mysteries of our shared world through Art and a more integrative, non-exclusive, cultural vocabulary. To that end, I began crafting my work towards more specific collaborations:
1. “The Year of Tibet"- A yearlong tour of Universities and Spiritual Centers with Nawang Khechog to help illuminate the history and plight of the Tibetan people

2. Recording projects with Peter Kater - Including CDs and Documentaries with PBS and The Discovery Channel to illuminate the true histories and plight of Native American tribes.

3. Gallery Projects in NYC to soundscape the space in context with the environmental exhibit being shown ... Composed “Humpback Lamentations” to help illuminate the plight of our oceans and the precarious relationship we tread between water and life.

4. Theater projects in the late'80s dealing with the politics of Central America, in the'90s dealing with AIDS awareness, and now -my dream vision for the next 5 years is the development and completion of “Art from Ashes” -An exploration of the transformation of the Human Spirit from the depths and horrors of chaos and adversity toward a life of light, healing and exaltation.
I hope to fulfill this vision through a collaboration of artists of varied disciplines bringing together sound/music movement and languages of the heart and imagination, along with modern technological advances and possibilities ... The aim would be to create a masterwork that can be shared on a performing stage as well as being used as an educational tool for all ages through the histories of Holocausts through time: Including the destruction of native populations in the Americas, the destruction of home and culture in Tibet, in Rwanda, in the Mideast ... The mass destruction of 4-leggeds, of sky creatures, of ocean life, the great destructive forces of waves of belief: from the early Crusades, through Hiroshima/Nagasaki and the unfathomable pogroms and holocausts of Eastern European Jewery.
My mission statement is that Art can be the Phoenix of our transformation ... helping us to transcend the realm of human despair, and move us towards an enlightened and open-hearted life
Finally: If anyone from Homeland Security is listening ... I would like to get paid for concerts given at airport security gates while trying to explain that exotic musical instruments, stamped “Made in Pakistan," are not weapons of mass destruction, but rather - tools of peace and understanding".