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Michael Stearns (born in 1948), is a pioneering American ambient musician, but also a film composer, sound designer and soundtrack producer for large format films, theatrical films, documentaries, commercials and themed attractions. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Ambient music is a Musical genre in which sound is more important than notes A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance Sound design is a technical/conceptually creative field It covers all non-compositional elements of a film a play a music performance IMAX (short for Image MAXimum is a Film format created by Canada 's IMAX Corporation that has the capacity to display images of far greater size and Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt in one fashion or another to " Document " reality Rides redirects here For the album by Reef see Rides (album, and for the BBC television series see Rides (TV series.

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Biography

Grown in Tucson, Arizona, Michael Stearns started practicing guitar at 13. Tucson (ˈtuːsɒn is the seat of Pima County Arizona, United States, located 118 miles (188 km) southeast The State of Arizona ( is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. At 16, he played in a surf music band, sometimes backing artists such as The Lovin' Spoonful and Paul Revere & the Raiders. Surf music is a Genre of Popular music associated with Surf culture, particularly Orange County and other areas of Southern California The Lovin' Spoonful is an American Pop rock band of the 1960s named to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000 Paul Revere and the Raiders is an American rock band that saw enormous mainstream success in the second half of the 1960s and earlier 1970s best-known for hits like Evolving to acid rock, he began composing music on multiple instruments in 1968 and, while in university and in the Air Force, spent a few years studying electronic music synthesis, the physics of musical instruments, and accumulating equipment (musical instruments, tape recorders. For "acid rock" as a geologic term see Igneous rock. Acid rock is a form of Psychedelic rock, which is characterized Electronic music is music that employs Electronic musical instruments and Electronic Music technology in its production Basics of sound When any mechanical collision occurs such as a fork being dropped sound is produced . . ) for his first studio. A recording studio is a facility for sound recording. Ideally the space is specially designed by an acoustician to achieve the desired acoustic properties (sound

The studio opened in Tucson, Arizona in 1972 where he produced jingles and commercials for local radio and television, and nationally released jingles for Schlitz Beer and Greyhound Bus Lines. A jingle is a memorable Slogan, set to an engaging Melody, mainly broadcast on Radio and sometimes on Television commercials. Advertising is a form of Communication that typically attempts to persuade potential Customers to Purchase or to consume more of a particular Brand Greyhound Lines is an intercity Common carrier of passengers by Bus serving over 3700 destinations in the United States. Michael's interest in experimental "space" music let him though unsatisfied, as he found no audience to play his musical ideas, which could be at this time only related to the drug experience. After three years, Michael Stearns underwent a spiritual crisis and thought about stopping music.

In 1975, Michael Stearns met Emily Conrad and Gary "Da'oud" David. Emily Conrad ran meditation classes in a workshop named Continuum, with Gary David performing on a Minimoog and looped tapes during the classes. The Minimoog is a monophonic Analog synthesizer, invented by Bill Hemsath and Robert Moog. Tape loops are loops of prerecorded Magnetic tape used to create repetitive rhythmic musical patterns or dense layers of sound Michael Stearns and his girlfriend Susan Harper moved in Los Angeles, California, to join Emily Conrad and Michael Stearns became a resident musician and composer till 1981. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. He developed then on synthesizers musical ideas that would feed his first solo albums.

By 1977, Michael Stearns had formed a small independent record label (Continuum Montage) with Susan Harper and a close friend and investor, David Breuer. The same year came the first releases on tape, Desert Moon Walk and Sustaining Cylinders, followed by Ancient Leaves, his first album released on LP, in 1978. Long play (LP record albums are 33⅓  Rpm vinyl Gramophone records (phonograph records generally either 10- or 12- Inches in diameter

In the same years, Stearns started out playing with Fred Stofflet a percussionist, then with Don Preston, the former keyboardist for The Mothers of Invention. Donald Ward Preston also known as Dom DeWilde or Biff Debrie born September 21, 1932 in Flint Michigan The Mothers of Invention was an American Rock and roll band active from 1964 to 1975 Both of them were playing for Emily David's classes. After that, Stearns, Stofflet and Craig Hundley, a friend of Gary David's, started a free jazz group called "Alivity". Craig Huxley (Born on November 22, 1954 in Minneapolis Minnesota, as Craig Hundley) is a Grammy and Emmy Award -winning Kevin Braheny came to one of their concerts and became friend with Michael Stearns. Kevin Braheny Fortune is an American musician He composes and performs quiet Ambient music, often more melodic than other music of this kind Braheny joined later Stearns to play live for Continuum. He brought there his Serge synthesizer, on which Michael Stearns would record his album Morning Jewel in 1979, before building his own Serge synthesizer. The modular synthesizer is a type of Synthesizer consisting of separate specialized modules connected by wires (patch cords to create a so-called patch. In the same period, Stearns began also to work with Craig Huxley scoring movies, and developed a friendship with Stephen Hill. A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film

In 1981, Continuum moved to a new location and Michael Stearns began a solo career as musician. He put together some ideas he performed live during the workshops on his Serge and came to his masterpiece Planetary Unfolding. Planetary Unfolding is an album of electronic Ambient music by the American musician Michael Stearns. Ideas of the same kind were put together to form the album Light Play in 1983 and the track Return on the album Lyra. The Coral Sea is a book by Patti Smith, published in 1996 Contents Voyage "The Passenger M" "The

Michael signed on the label Sonic Atmospheres in 1984, on which some of his earlier works would be re-released (Light Play became M'ocean in 1984, Morning Jewel became Jewel in 1985 and Planetary Unfolding was given a new release in 1985). M'ocean is an album of electronic Ambient music by the American musician Michael Stearns. In 1984, Chronos was the first film music done entirely by Stearns after years of collaboration with Huxley or Maurice Jarre. Chronos is a 1985 Abstract film directed by Ron Fricke, created with custom-built Time-lapse cameras Maurice Jarre (born in Lyon France, September 13 1924). is a French Composer and conductor. After two more releases for Sonic Atmospheres, Plunge (1986) and Floating Whispers (1987), Michael Stearns signed to Stephen Hill's new label Hearts of Space Records and released another great album, Encounter. Encounter is an album by Michael Stearns, released in 1988. Subtitled A Journey in the Key of Space, it's a collection of peaceful instrumental

In the next years, Michael Stearns worked again with Ron Fricke, scoring Baraka, his best known composition and released several albums, working with Steve Roach, Kevin Braheny and/or Ron Sunsinger (1989 : Desert Solitaire, 1994 : Singing Stones and Kiva) or alone (1993 : Sacred Sites, 1995 : The Lost World). Ron Fricke is an American Film director and Cinematographer, considered to be a master of time-lapse photography Baraka ( 1992) is a Todd-AO ( 70 mm) non-narrative film directed by Ron Fricke, cinematographer for Koyaanisqatsi Steve Roach may refer to Steve Roach (musician, American ambient music composer Steve Roach (rugby league, Australian rugby league footballer Kevin Braheny Fortune is an American musician He composes and performs quiet Ambient music, often more melodic than other music of this kind Desert Solitaire (1989 is a collaborative album by American ambient musicians Steve Roach, Kevin Braheny and Michael Stearns.

In 2000 and 2001, Michael Stearns, now established in Santa Fe, New Mexico, released several albums on his own label Earth Turtle : Within, The Middle of Time, Spirits of the Voyage, The Storm and Sorcerer. Santa Fe ( Navajo: Yootó is the Capital of the state of New Mexico. New Mexico ( is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States of America. He is still scoring movies and documentaries today. He's involved in the IMAX movie Te Vaka which should be filmed in 2007. IMAX (short for Image MAXimum is a Film format created by Canada 's IMAX Corporation that has the capacity to display images of far greater size and

Instruments

In his earlier albums, he often used the Serge Modular Synthesizer, giving his music a twinkling and quite "cosmic" sound. At the end of the eighties, his sound became deeper and closer to Steve Roach's style. Steve Roach may refer to Steve Roach (musician, American ambient music composer Steve Roach (rugby league, Australian rugby league footballer Michael Stearns's music is always very ambient and woven with sounds of nature or human voices. But it can also be more melodic with great themes evocating wide spaces or great landscapes.

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Solo works

Collaborations

Compilations & others

External links

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