
Ian Douglas-Moore's music uses guitar, electronics, and field recordings to explore the textures of resonant sounds as they engage with acoustic space. Treating an acoustic guitar as a tone generator, his recent improvisations with Eric Wong, Dominic Coles, Patrick Holmes, and others, blur the boundaries between electronic and acoustic music. His project with Aaron Snyder, Church Car, traverses minimalist psychedelic rock, text-sound composition, and music from imagined microtonal folk traditions. These musical experiences inform his sound design for artists like Moriah Evans, Annie Dorsen, and Lauren Bakst. In 2024 he completed an MFA in Sonic Arts at Brooklyn College.
Big Sine is a sound installation for pure tones tuned to the resonant frequencies of a room. Previously realized at ausland, Berlin in 2014 and Shift, Brooklyn, in 2022, each iteration is as different as the space in which it occurs. The tones map the room aurally, creating an intensely personal synesthesia that reveals spatial relations in a visceral manner. Moving around, sounds become intensely loud, only to then disappear after another step, sometimes seeming to emanate from the walls or corners. At Every Body Knows, it will become the environment within which the daily events take place