Stephan Moore

Raft is a participatory installation by Yanira Castro | a canary torsi, with sound design and environment work by Stephan, built from shipping pallets, bundled clothing, tarps, and emergency supplies and inspired by Théodore Géricault's 1818–19 painting The Raft of the Medusa. Created with an interdisciplinary design team including Kathy Couch, Ariel Lembeck, and LD DeArmon, with access dramaturgy by Marielys Burgos Meléndez. Premiered April 2026 as part of the Corpus Festival at EMPAC (Troy, NY), with the installation remaining on view into May.

The Way In, by Evidence (Stephan Moore + Scott Smallwood), is both an album and a video game that allows the album's tracks to be traversed and explored through a series of generative mazes. The music was recorded in the great reverberant space of the TANK Center for Sonic Arts in Rangely, CO. The game was produced in association with the Audio Games Lab at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, where it can be downloaded and played.

In the Loop is a Theater for the Very Young production inspired by Chicago's trains and buses, devised by Ellie Levine and Jamal Howard in collaboration with Northwestern Theatre students in Theatre 330 and a class of 2–5 year-olds at Total Child Preschool. Stephan composed the music and sound design; objects and costumes are by Jillian Gryzlak, with lighting by Eric Southern. Suggested for ages 2–4. Premiered at Northwestern's Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts in June 2026.

Unpopular Music is an intimate-yet-open-air, 8-channel listening environment. It features exquisite, detailed sound works — field recordings, abstract electroacoustic music, ambient textures, and other non-beat-oriented sonic experiences — composed by over 100 artists internationally. Encompassing a circular space 40 feet in diameter, the piece is built around a circle of small custom-built Hemisphere speakers enclosing a listening area with soft couches for seating. Shown in several iterations since 2018, mostly at Burning Man, but also in Chicago city parks. 2026 marks its fifth and final showing, at Burning Man.