Liam Mooney, composer/instrument inventor – (mis)Using Familiar Objects

Open Gate Theater presents Liam Mooney in its next Sunday Evening Music Series concert. Liam Mooney is a musician who composes for noisy, unwieldy wind and percussion instruments. This often relies upon the use—and misuse—of familiar objects and materials, such as balloons, vacuum cleaners, dry ice, triangles, rubber bands, drums, styrofoam, and pipes and tubes of all sorts.

Mooney grew up in the mountains of Virginia, playing mostly unpitched percussion in marching and concert bands there. He later worked with computer music and electronics for a bit, but his music is mostly all acoustic these days. He now lives and works in Los Angeles.