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7 unusual facts about Michael Stearns


Canyon Dreams

The music ambience relates to contemporary musicians such as Soulfood, Steve Roach, Matthias Gohl, and Michael Stearns.

Michael Stearns

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).

After that, Stearns, Stofflet and Craig Hundley, a friend of Gary David's, started a free jazz group called "Alivity".

In 1986, he provided "electronic images and textures" for Constance Demby's album Novus Magnificat.

Night Sky Replies

This album was released by the Italian label, Amplexus, which specializes in limited edition mini CDs by notable ambient artists like Steve Roach, Vidna Obmana and Michael Stearns.

Planetary Unfolding

Planetary Unfolding (1981) is an album of electronic ambient music by U.S. musician Michael Stearns.

Serge synthesizer

Serge synthesizers have been used by composers such as Michael Stearns and Kevin Braheny (who owned a 15-panel system dubbed The Mighty Serge).



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