Barry Moon

  

Barry combines various forms of art and technology to create works that encourage meaningful interactions between humans and computers. His works for instrumental performance and computer have been performed at the International Computer Music Conference in 1998, 2004, 2006, and 2013. Other venues where this body of his work has received international attention has been at the Australian Computer Music Conference in Melbourne, the Sonic Circuits festival in Toronto, the InterCollege Computer Music festival in Tokyo, the MIX.01 in Aarhus, Festival in Denmark and Sweden, the MAXIS Festival in Leeds UK, Digital Arts and Culture Conference in Doncaster UK, the real-time/non real time festival, Basel, Switzerland, and Śląskie Dni Muzyki Współczesnej in Katowice Poland. Many of his works for performance with computer have involved the development of novel means of communication between performer(s) and computer such as “Open-Form Score Following” techniques used in his Interact I, Interact II, and Electronic Revolution, and the “video score” used in his recent College Ave.

Barry has created numerous performance works and installations incorporating video processing. He has also been creating computer games. "Ear Trading" developed in collaboration with his sister Brenda Moon is a game using music to help guide the player through the decision-making process as they trade imaginary stocks on the stock market. It is available for iOS through the iTunes Store. He is also part of the "Happy Place" research group at Arizona State University, and his collaborations with sculptor Hilary Harp are receiving critical acclaim.

Barry's "Baz Tutorials" channel on YouTube is a set of video tutorials on programming in the Max/MSP/Jitter environment. This channel, which has been very popular, currently has over 300,000 views and 2,300 subscribers.

Barry is currently Associate Professor in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance program at Arizona State University.