Tau (Melissa Moore) is a musician, self-taught experimental instrument builder, installation/sound artist, and sculptor. She was born in Washington DC in 1975 and is currently based in Baltimore, MD. Moore's gallery and performative sound work involves the magnification of minute sound sources, focusing attention on the physical properties of materials and unusual acoustic phenomena in a reductive and elemental way, as well as working with such diverse sources as field recordings, fire, water, invented instruments, electronics, percussion, wind instruments, acoustic-folk guitar and voice. She is involved in improvised music/performance, her own conceptual compositions, and she is a frequent collaborator with other musicians. Her music and performance work often has an installation quality that belies its deep aesthetic and philosophical considerations. Her current music project is titled; "Language of the Dards" (tau and twiLight sing 100,000 songs of Milarepa). It is a multi-part series of pieces developed around the text/teachings/songs of Indian Yogi, Milarepa. Currently there are (4) 10-minute recordings of voice/finger-pickin guitar, nepalese oboe, and electronics. Melissa also developed and curates the Baltimore electro-acoustic/multi-channel sound series, SoundPillow Series. She was selected to perform High Zero 2005/2007, an international experimental music festival in Baltimore, MD. She has also performed at Straulau 68, LaborSonar, and Lichtblick Kino in Berlin, Germany, Elastic Arts and Something Else Radio in Chicago, Illinois, Homemade Festival in New York, the Redroom and 14 Karat Cabaret in Baltimore and other venues in the US. Her present work is an intersection of sound, sculpture, and installation.