- published: 22 Apr 2016
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Kevin Moore (born May 26, 1967) is an American keyboardist, vocalist, composer, and founder of the Chroma Key music project. He is also a former member of the American progressive metal/rock band Dream Theater, co-founder of the progressive rock supergroup O.S.I. and has composed film soundtracks. Throughout his career, he has become known for his emotional music and lyrics, nomadic lifestyle and use of spoken word samples.
Moore started his music career in progressive metal band Dream Theater. He contributed music and lyrics to the band's first three studio albums, but left the band during the recording of Awake to pursue his own musical interests. Starting with 1998's Dead Air for Radios, he has released electronica, ambient music through his solo project Chroma Key. Moore has guested on several albums, including three Fates Warning albums. This led Moore to form OSI with Fates Warning guitarist Jim Matheos in 2002, a band which combines progressive metal with electronica. The fourth OSI album, Fire Make Thunder, was released in March 2012.
Chroma key compositing, or chroma keying, is a special effects / post-production technique for compositing (layering) two images or video streams together based on color hues (chroma range). The technique has been used heavily in many fields to remove a background from the subject of a photo or video – particularly the newscasting, motion picture and videogame industries. A color range in the top layer is made transparent, revealing another image behind. The chroma keying technique is commonly used in video production and post-production. This technique is also referred to as color keying, colour-separation overlay (CSO; primarily by the BBC), or by various terms for specific color-related variants such as green screen, and blue screen – chroma keying can be done with backgrounds of any color that are uniform and distinct, but green and blue backgrounds are more commonly used because they differ most distinctly in hue from most human skin colors. No part of the subject being filmed or photographed may duplicate a color used in the background.
"...few people... always a few people..."
"...these are the stars and here are the people,
look..."
"...so I tried to hitchhike from this exit, there was
nothing... that's all
it was the worstest like, like standing time I ever had
here in the States
with hitchhiking... I'm standing there, and I'm
standing there, and I'm
standing there... and after a while a, a guy stopped
like... I had no money
or nothing I had nothing to eat and stuff like that...
a guy stopped like
with a Jeep and picked me up and... 'well, I have
nothing to do, I'll
drive you to [unintelligible]'..."
fly blackbird fly
frozen the sea i see you
old cover clouds new snow there they go
silent but wings
sun orange small i see you
nowhere is home go alone so alone
"...I was tired, I was... bored, I was... I didn't know
where to go, where to
find a job. I felt... pretty helpless..."
fly angel fly
older than me i feel you
coalcovered clouds white snow there you go
heard myself call
far from them all i feel you
left them behind or ahead and he said
something's gonna change i can feel it
last night i had dreams that i was you
i was tearing out the pages of my diary
and a bird flew past my head
so i put them back again 'cause i knew
it's alright to like the way i feel
it's alright to like the way i feel
it's alright to like the way i feel
it's alright to like the way i feel
cry blackbird cry
over the waves i hear you
coalcovered clouds white snow there they go
ice on your wings
songless he sings i hear you
nowhere is home all alone there's a phone
"...I tried to call home because of... I don't know...
I wanted to call
home... where ever call home is... I, I made the re-
call, but of course, I
didn't have the money to pay the telephone... and
nobody picked up the
phone... that was depressing me more than, than
everything before..."
something's gonna change i can feel it
last night i just stayed at home alone
i was tearing out the pages from my diary
but a bird flew past my head
so i put them back again 'cause i know
it's alright
it's alright to feel the way i feel
sometimes the answer just comes
"...and after about two months, I had the money
together to rent a place...
with the guy together who gave me the first job... it's
a pretty, little
world for me, in a way... few people... always a few
people..."
[Male vocal sample: Gert, a German friend of Kevin's
talking about ]
[his first experiences after immigrating to the US. ]