Michael Stearns

   
Artist: Michael Stearns

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   Ambient
   

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Discography:


   
 The Storm

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 12


   
 The Middle Of Time

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 18


   
 Sustaining Cylinders

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 2


   
 Spirits Of The Voyage

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 16


   
 Plunge

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 12


   
 Lyra

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 8


   
 Ancient Leaves

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 2


   
 Within - The Nine Dimensions

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 10


   
 Floating Whispers

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 8


   
 The Light In The Trees

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 4


   
 Collected Thematic Works

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 17


   
 The Lost World

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 12


   
 Sacred Site

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 11


   
 Baraka

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 11


   
 Encounter

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 9


   
 Collected Ambient and Textural Works 1977-1987

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 11


   
 Planetary Unfolding

   Year: 1984   
Tracks: 6


   
 M'ocean

   Year: 1984   
Tracks: 7


   
 Morning Jewel

   Year: 1979   
Tracks: 2


   
 Chronos

   Year:    
Tracks: 1

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Composer/sound carver Michael Stearns was born and raised in Tuscon, AZ, pickings up hellenic guitar as a teenager; in sentence he affected on to rock and nothingness, and by the age of 16 was regularly mount top pop acts of the Apostles including the Lovin' Spoonful and Paul Revere & the Raiders. While a pupil at the University of the Pacific he turned to electronic music, complementary his low musique concrète piece in 1968; quatern years later, Stearns returned to Tucson to open his possess recording studio, later producing a series of advertizing jingles. In 1974, choreographer Emilie Conrad positive him to move to Los Angeles to serve as the house physician composer at her Continuum Studio; in the action of creating ad-lib live accompaniment for the dance group's groundbreaking ceremony explorations of human drift, Stearns developed a unique good combine synthesizers and environmental samples, over prison term incorporating increasingly exotic instrumentation as well.


In 1977 Stearns released his debut album Ancient Leaves on his have Continuum Montage label, its spacemusic aesthetic anticipating the coming rear of New Age. Efforts including Morning Jewel and Planetary Unfolding followed as he developed The Beam, a 12-foot-long aluminum quill strung with some two dozen piano strings designed to generate small frequencies; in 1983, Stearns besides collaborated with composer Maurice Jarre on Dreamscape, the number one in a series of innovative plastic film piles. His fifth solo album, Lyra, was performed on George Landry's mammoth Lyra Sound Constellation, an instrument comprised of 156 microtonally-tuned strings of lengths up to 20 feet. In 1984, Stearns began a longstanding collaboration with film producer Ron Fricke which number one yielded the soundtrack to the groundbreaking IMAX production Chronos; that same yr, he as well founded M'Ocean, a studio apartment situated in Santa Monica, CA. (An album of the same nominate followed in 1985.)


In gain to 1986's Plunge, Stearns reunited with Fricke for the short motion picture Sanctified Site; soundtracks to deuce more IMAX productions, Seasons and Time Concerto, further solidified his repute as 1 of the to the highest degree innovative film music composers of the consequence, highly regarded for his manipulation of multi-channel surround-sound technology. In addition to subsequent albums including Run into and Desert Solitaire (the latter a collaboration with Steve Roach and Kevin Braheny) as well as IMAX wads wish Ring of Fire and Tropical Rain Forest, Stearns besides intentional the soundtracks for several rides at the Universal Studios themepark. After another collaboration with Fricke resulted in 1991's much-celebrated Imamu Amiri Baraka, he resettled to Santa Fe, NM to build a new recording facility, Earth Turtle Studio. Singing Stones, a joint work with Ron Sunsinger, followed in 1994, and a year later Stearns released The Lost World. The Light in the Trees followed in 1996 and Thaumaturge was issued four eld later.