Peter Moore

Peter Moore was a Canadian music producer and engineer who helped start the campus radio station CHRW-FM at the University of Western Ontario in 1976 and hosted a punk and new wave program. He recorded live performances by local and touring Canadian punk bands for his show, then founded Silent Head Records in 1979. He became a professional producer and engineer by 1981, branching into jazz and classical, and after graduating in 1982 he founded MDI Productions and moved to Toronto, where he also worked on film and television scores. He produced the Cowboy Junkies' The Trinity Session in 1988, a one-microphone recording that became an international success. He produced, engineered and mixed Hard Core Logo (1996), sharing a Genie Award for Best Original Song. He later appeared as a recording engineer in Hard Core Logo 2 (2010). His work on the Band's Basement Tapes won a Grammy for Best Historical Album in 2016. He died in 2023.