Kevin Moore

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Kevin Moore (born May 26, 1967) is an American keyboardist, singer, guitarist, and composer, as well as the project's founder, Chroma Key.

He is also a member of the American progressive metal/rock band Dream Theater, co-founder of the progressive rock supergroup O.S.I., and has produced film soundtracks.

Throughout his career, he has renowned for his emotional music and lyrics, nomadic lifestyle, and use of spoken word samples. Moore began his musical career in Dream Theater, a progressive metal band.

He contributed music and lyrics to the band's first three studio albums, but after the band's debut on Awake, he left the band to pursue his own musical interests.

Chroma Key, a 1999-1998 Death Air for Radios pioneer, has performed electro-ambient and ambient music.

Moore has appeared on several albums, including three Fates Warning albums.

Moore and Fates Warning guitarist Jim Matheos formed OSI in 2002, a band that blends progressive metal with electronica.

Fire Make Thunder, the fourth OSI album, was released in March 2012. Since leaving Dream Theater, Moore has worked on other solo projects.

While living in Costa Rica, he produced a bi-weekly radio program for Radio for Peace International; a collection of this work was released as Memory Hole 1.

Moore wrote soundtracks for two Turkish films while living in Turkey.

In 2004, the soundtrack for the first film, Okul, was released as Ghost Book.

In 2010, the soundtrack for the second film, Küçük Kiyamet, was released.

Early years

Moore, a boy from Long Island, New York, began his music career in Kings Park, Long Island, learning piano at the age of six and writing his first song at the age of 12. Moore briefly attended SUNY Fredonia, where he studied classical music, before returning home to form the band Majesty with childhood friends guitarist John Petrucci and bassist John Myung, who recruited drummer Mike Portnoy (a fellow Long Islander) during their brief stay at Berklee College of Music. Chris Collins performed for Majesty, but he was later replaced by Charlie Dominici (and eventually James LaBrie) and the band was renamed Dream Theater.

Personal life

In a chat with Fates Warning founder Ray Alder, Moore returned to the United States and trained to become a doctor. Moore was in his third year of medical school as of 2013.

Moore has been working as a psychiatrist at Trinity Health in Minot, North Dakota, since 2020. He earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from Des Moines University in Iowa and completed his psychiatry residency at Garnet Health Medical Center in Middletown, New York.

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Career

When Dream and Day Unite, 1989, Dream Theater's debut studio album, earned the group comparisons to well-known progressive rock bands such as Rush and Queensrche. The band's biggest breakthrough, to date, came in 1992 with the release of Images and Words, which included the band's highest charting single, "Pull Me Under." Moore's lyrics topped the album, which also included lyrics. On the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, the 10 best songs on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The band went on to release Live at the Marquee as a result of their incessant touring in favor of the second album. Images and Words: Live In Tokyo. Moore's comedic sense of humour will be introduced to many followers of the film's extensive documentary film.

The band's third studio album, Awake, debuted in 1994, becoming the band's highest charting album to date, with Moore debuting at No. 1 in 1994. 32. "Space-Dye Vest" was Moore's signature track, a haunting piano-driven ballad. Moore revealed to the rest of the band that he preferred to concentrate on his own musical interests and would not be avoiding Dream Theater shortly before the album was mixed. Moore, according to Portnoy, was interested in working on his own rather than in a band environment compromise. Moore has stated that rather than looking back, Dream Theater has since allowed him to attend reunion shows. Despite participating in every other former Dream Theater member and a number of former employees of the company, he notably declined to participate in the official Dream Theater biography titled Lifting Shadows.

Moore wrote the lyrics to songs on each of the band's albums and also on some of the band's demos and b-sides during his time in Dream Theater. He wrote "Light Fuse and Get Away" and other aspects of The Killing Hand on Dream and Day Unite, as well as parts of The Hand. "Pull Me Under," "Surrounded," "Wait for Sleep," and "Metropolis—Part I: The Miracle and the Sleeper" is a penned story by the writer on Images and Words. On Awake, the songs "6:00," "Lie," and "Space-Dye Vest" were among the lyrics. "Don't Look Past Me," "A Vision," and "Two Far" are three demos with his lyrics.

Moore moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and began writing for his solo album after leaving Dream Theater. Fans of Music Meant to Be Heard were sent a demo tape, and the songs featured many spoken-word excerpts from Moore's cross-country travels. The majority of these songs were later released on a limited-edition CD titled This Is a Recording in 1999.

Moore's first solo album, Dead Air For Radios, was released in 1998 under the name Chroma Key on his self-created record label, Fight Evil Records. For that album, Mark Zonder and Joey Vera of Fates Warning performed as his support artists. The album was released with a dark, ambient sound closer to Peter Gabriel and Tori Amos than the more complicated and intricate Dream Theater style. In hindsight, Dream Theater followers noticed Moore had subtly explored this type of composition in "Space-Dye Vest."

Moore moved to Los Angeles in 2000, where he produced the digitally themed You Go Now. Moore, David Iscove (guitars), and Steve Tushar (loops, programming). Moore earned a BFA at the California Institute of the Arts, where he created Octember Revolution, a little-known film that depicted a Southern California gated community activism. He then moved to Costa Rica, where he worked for Radio For Peace International, which produced a bi-weekly activist radio show. In fact, some of Moore's radio for Peace International work on Radio for Peace International was later revealed on an internet-only album named Memory Hole 1.

Moore scoured public domain films in 2004, looking for one that exuded a particular mood and planned to write a pseudo-soundtrack to it. Age 13, an educational film from the 1950s, was chosen to be used in classrooms. He took the already existing film, slowed it to half speed, and allowed it to control the mood, textures, and even running times of the songs he wrote to it. The resultant album is titled Graveyard Mountain Home, and it includes a DVD that compares Moore's music to Moore's.

In 2003, Fates Warning guitarist Jim Matheos invited Moore to collaborate with him on a new musical project. Moore had worked with Matheos before appearing on Fates Warning's 1989 album Perfect Symmetry, 1997's A Pleasant Shade of Gray, and the 2000 version Disconnected. Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy and Cynic bassist/Chapman Stick player Sean Malone were involved in the latest project. This will be the first time Moore has been with Portnoy since leaving Dream Theater almost ten years ago. The band that was formed was named OSI, and they announced the album Office of Strategic Influence. It can be characterized musically as a mash-up of Chroma Key's dark, melodic obsession with the guitars and the heaviness of Fates Warning and Dream Theater. Moore assumed vocal duties.

Moore and Matheos released Free, their second OSI album, a collaboration made possible by Moore's temporary relocation to Montreal, Canada. Portnoy was on drums on the album once more. Free, unlike the first OSI album, which was based on an information-spinning group of the US government, was about Moore's personal life. Following the album's debut, OSI also released an EP with remixes of three Free songs and a video of the title track. Moore and Matheos hinted at potential tour dates in support of the album's support, but no one appeared to date.

Moore revealed on his website that he had been working for several months with Jim Matheos and drummer Gavin Harrison (of the band Porchetta Tree) on the third OSI album in September 2008. In April 2009, blood was first published.

Fire Make Thunder, OSI's fourth album, was announced in March 2012.

Moore moved to Istanbul, Turkey, in 2004 and composed the soundtrack to the horror film Okul (The School), which was later released as a solo album named Ghost Book. Many traditional instruments derived from Moore's stay in Costa Rica and Turkey were included in the album. Moore teamed up with Turkish producers for another soundtrack project in 2006. Küçük Kyamet (The Little Apocalypse), a film that tells the tragic tale of a family who decides to rent a summer house by the seaside. After a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, Shine was self-released in December 2010! Both films, Okul and Küçük Kyamet, were based on books written by Turkish author Dou Yücel.

While in Istanbul, he produced a radio show with Theron Patterson and Pnar Türen for Aç'k Radyo in Istanbul.

Moore appeared on March 23, 2007, an hour-long performance held at Balo Stage in Istanbul. It was described as a "tryout" to "play some songs for a local audience...with longer, more elaborate shows planned for the future. Moore, a Turkish industrial rock band, announced plans to pre-produce the debut album of Turkish industrial rock band Makine, which was released in April 2010.

Since 2015, Moore's Chroma Key Patroma Key website has been collecting crowdfunding for song launches.

In a 2019 interview, Dream Theater vocalist James LaBrie said he recently contacted Moore by texting and that the former band mates are now friends.

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