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Michael Stearns (born 1948) is a United States musician and composer of ambient music. His credits include music and soundtrack production for television, feature films, planetariums, theme parks, twenty two IMAX films and seventeen solo albums. His music has been used for James Cameron’s “The Abyss”, “Titanic” and “Avatar”, as well as music for Disney Films, HBO, ABC, PBS, BBC, Discovery Channel, and Ron Fricke’s non-verbal 70MM films “Chronos”, “Sacred Site”, “Baraka” and “Samsara”. It has also been used by NASA, Laserium, and choreographed by the Berkshire Ba ...read more
Michael Stearns (born 1948) is a United States musician and composer of ambient music. His credits include music and soundtrack production for television, feature films, planetariums, theme parks, twenty two IMAX films and seventeen solo albums. His music has been used for James Cameron’s “The Abyss”, “Titanic” and “Avatar”, as well as music for Disney Films, HBO, ABC, PBS, BBC, Discovery Channel, and Ron Fricke’s non-verbal 70MM films “Chronos”, “Sacred Site”, “Baraka” and “Samsara”. It has also been used by NASA, Laserium, and choreographed by the Berkshire Ballet.
In his earlier albums, he often used the Serge Modular synthesizer, giving his music a twinkling and "cosmic" sound. In 1982, he built "The Beam", a 12-foot-long (3.7 m) acoustic instrument strung with 24 piano strings, designed by Jonathan W. Lazell and built with the help of Paul Abell. He has since used it in many albums (solo or collaboration) as well as in concert and film scores. At the end of the eighties, his sound became deeper and closer to Steve Roach's style. Michael Stearns' music is always very ambient and woven with sounds of nature or human voices. But it can also be more melodic with great themes evoking wide spaces or great landscapes. « hide |
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