in conjunction with the Blues for Smoke exhibit in 2013. Outside of the jazz world, he has composed music for theater, including Rita Dove's "The Darker Side of the Earth" at the Guthrie Theater, "Feathers at the Flame" by Laurie Carlos at The Kitchen, and "A Still Life" by Emily Mann. He has worked with dance troupes such as the Joan Miller Dance Players, Rod Rogers Dance Company, Marlies Yearby's Movin' Spirits Dance Theater, Koo Dance, and Judith Jackson. He has scored and composed music for movies, including Central Park: The People's Place and Fireflies in the Abyss. He has worked with lyricists such as Laurie Carlos, Fred L. Price, Carl Hancock Rux, and Arthur T. Wilson. In the 1990s he was the resident storyteller at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. He has toured extensively in Europe as well as the United States. Among the many instruments Cooper-Moore has built are a diddley-bow, a three-string fretless banjo, and a mouth bow. Cooper-Moore received the Lifetime Achievement award at the 2017 Vision Festival in New York City. Cooper-Moore has said, "I have taken stuff out a dumpster to make an instrument which I have used at gigs. If you put me somewhere, and I had to play and didn't have an instrument, I'd get everything I needed and make an instrument within a few hours." Discography Solo: Deep in the Neighborhood of History and Influence (Hopscotch, 2001) Cooper-Moore, Assif Tsahar - America (Hopscotch, 2003) Cooper-Moore - s/t 5x7" box (50 Miles of Elbow Room, 2004); reissued as The Cedar Box Recordings (50 Miles of Elbow Room / AUM Fidelity, 2008) Cooper-Moore / Tom Abbs / Chad Taylor - Triptych Myth (Hopscotch, 2004) Outtakes 1978 (Hopscotch, 2005) Triptych Myth - The Beautiful (AUM Fidelity, 2005) Cooper-Moore / Assif Tsahar - Tells Untold (Hopscotch, 2005) Assif Tsahar / Cooper-Moore / Hamid Drake - Lost Brother (Hopscotch, 2005) Digital Primitives - s/t (Hopscotch, 2007) Digital Primitives - Hum Crackle & Pop (Hopscotch, 2009) Digital Primitives - Lipsomuch / Soul Searchin' (Hopscotch) Cooper-Moore - Solo Piano #2 (self-released CD-R, 2017) Cooper-Moore - Looking Back #1 (self-released CD-R, 2017) Cooper-Moore - Looking Back #2 (self-released CD-R, 2017) With Alan Braufman Valley of Search (India Navigation, 1975) The Fire Still Burns (Valley of Search, 2020) With Gerald Cleaver's Black Host Life in the Sugar Candle Mines (Northern Spy Records, 2013) With Bill Cole / The Untempered Ensemble Live