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Release Date: 16-08-1997
Label: Hearts of Space
Catalog Number: HS11008-2
Barcode: 25041100823
Musical Style: New Instrumental
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ENCOUNTER Awaiting the Other  | 6 | WITHIN Choir of the Ascending Spirit |
| 2 | CRAFT Dimensional Release | 7 | DISTANT THUNDER Solitary Witness |
| 3 | BEACON Those Who Have Gone Before | 8 | ALIEN SHORE Starlight Bay |
| 4 | ON THE WAY Space Caravan | 9 | PROCESSION Sacred Ceremony |
| 5 | DIMENSIONAL SHIFT Across the Threshold | 10 | STAR DREAMS Peace Eternal |
Description:
Encounter is a powerful, state-of-the-art sonic theater that gives both your speakers and your spine a workout, as MICHAEL STEARNS conjures up nothing less than the awesome audio experience of a Close Encounter.
Powerful drones, galactic winds. thundering rumblings, ethereal harmonic choirs. and elegant electronic motifs create the mystery, grandeur, exhilaration and wonder of cosmic spacemusic.
Synthasizers, samplers, environmental sounds.
Biography:
A pioneer of the spacemusic boom of the 1970s, Michael Stearns has continued at he vanguard of sonic invention through a dozen solo albums and more than 20 years of wide-ranging studio work and film scoring. Trained on classical guitar while growing up in Tucson, Arizona, Stearns explored rock and jazz in his teens and twenties. He created and played his first electronic music while studying at the University of the Pacific.
In 1972, he moved to Los Angeles as a composer and sound designer and evolved into what Audion Magazine called the most consistently interesting and intriguing American synthesist. In 1984 Stearns founded M'Ocean, a recording studio in Santa Monica specially equipped for surround sound and electronic music. Over the next decade he designed multi-channel surround soundtracks for IMAX/OMNIMAX space theater films and for Universal Studio's Earthquake and Back to the Future theme park rides in Los Angeles and Orlando. He also collaborated with Maurice Jarre on the feature film Dreamscape and with director Ron Fricke on the acclaimed Chronos, Sacred Site and Baraka. His fascination with the ecology, culture and rituals for the American southwest resulted in the 1994 Hearts of Space collaboration with RON SUNSINGER, Singing Stones (HS11042). In recent years, Stearns has increasingly incorporated into his music sounds and inspirations gleaned from extensive travels in Indonesia, Thailand, Egypt, Costa Rica, Brazil, the Galapagos and now Venezuela.
