Recorded Works by Phillip Stearns

Tape Vitae | Present - 2002

2009

486 Audio Shorts Shorting 486 Boards Borrowed from LoVid: 01 - 486 Audio Shorts - 1:00
02 - 486 Audio Shorts - 0:39
03 - 486 Audio Shorts - 1:00
04 - 486 Audio Shorts - 2:48
05 - 486 Audio Shorts - 1:00
06 - 486 Audio Shorts - 1:00
07 - 486 Audio Shorts - 1:00
08 - 486 Audio Shorts - 4:31

2008

Tiger Claw Collaboration Manipulation of a single drum loop from Rodney Clark: Stretch - 6:59

Field Recording Composition: GLOW - Santa Monica 2008 - 19:08

2007

Insideoutsidein (winter): Insideoutsidein I - Mixer feedback through FX and custom electronics
Insideoutsidein II - Mixer feedback through FX and custom electronics
Insideoutsidein III - Mixer feedback through FX and custom electronics
Insideoutsidein IV - Mixer feedback through FX and custom electronics

2006

Switched (winter): Switched I - Mixer feedback through FX and custom electronics
Switched II - Mixer feedback through FX and custom electronics
Switched III - Mixer feedback through FX and custom electronics

Stranded (winter): Standed I - Mixer feedback through FX and custom electronics
Standed II - Mixer feedback through FX and custom electronics
Standed III - Mixer feedback through FX and custom electronics
Standed IV - Mixer feedback through FX and custom electronics
Standed V - Mixer feedback through FX and custom electronics

Autopoiesis - I (summer)

Structure V - Mixer and FM transmitter feedback
Structure IV - Mixer and FM transmitter feedback
Structure III - Mixer and FM transmitter feedback
Structure II - Mixer and FM transmitter feedback
Structure I - Mixer and FM transmitter feedback

60x60 (spring): Stability IV - Submission to the 60x60 Project by Vox Novus - Mixer and FM Transmitter Feedback
Stability III - Submission to the 60x60 Project by Vox Novus - Mixer and FM Transmitter Feedback
Stability II - Submission to the 60x60 Project by Vox Novus - Mixer and FM Transmitter Feedback
Stability I - Submission to the 60x60 Project by Vox Novus - Mixer and FM Transmitter Feedback
A Few Words - Submission to the 60x60 Project by Vox Novus - Made with this text file.

The Man Upstairs - Melinda Rice (Violin), Cat Lamb (Viola), April Guthrie (Cello), Stina Hanson (Bass), and Phillip Stearns (Typewriter)
Performance Film Score :: My First Found Love Letter - Written for Laura Bouza
Dance for Film Score :: Untitled - Written for Allison Rootberg

2005

00000001-11111111 (2005 - present) The series "00000001-11111111" is an exploration of sculpting complex behavior using fairly simple feedback loops either in digital hardware or programmed in some software environment. This project as a whole can be seen as a process and work in progress. At its start, the main goal was to explore the sonic possibilities of digital audio feedback systems in order to form a musical vocabulary. What has developed is less of a vocabulary and more a means of creating formal structures in a realtime improvised compositional settings. By inserting pitch analysis processes into the feedback loop, the system gains the ability to "hear" itself and respond based on very simple rules (i.e. cancel out the ringing frequency and insert a tone at a different pitch). Suddenly what was once purely improvised becomes generative and dynamic. At present plans to add simple memory to the system are underway. Using simple models of human cognition in derived from our empirical knowledge of musical perception, one many possibilities for interesting "chaotic" music arise. By no means should this be taken as an attempt to replace humans as musicians. Rather than use those computer based musical tools made available to us by commercial institutions to do what's easy and intuitive, I find much pleasure in using them in the "wrong way" to produce music that is not only creative and challenging but also beautiful.: 00010001 - 2006 - Breaking/Fixing Reason 2.5
00010000 - 2006 - Breaking/Fixing Reason 2.5
00001111 - 2006 - Breaking/Fixing Reason 2.5
00001110 - 2006 - Breaking/Fixing Reason 2.5
00001101 - 2006 - Feedback using protools, a sony DMX-R100, eventide and lexicon multi fx units
00001100 - 2006 - Feedback using protools, a sony DMX-R100, eventide and lexicon multi fx units
00001011 - 2006 - Recorded live at Cal Arts. Feedback in Pure Data
00001010 - 2006 - Feedback in Pure Data
00001001 - 2006 - Feedback in Pure Data
00001000 - 2006 - Feedback in Pure Data
00000111 - 2006 - Feedback in Pure Data
00000110 - 2005 - Feedback between SPDIF input and output on a digidesign 002
00000101 - 2005 - Feedback between SPDIF input and output on a digidesign 002
00000100 - 2005 - Feedback between SPDIF input and output on a MOTU 828 using Cubase SX and plugins
00000011 - 2005 - Feedback between SPDIF input and output on a MOTU 828 using Cubase SX and plugins
00000010 - 2005 - Feedback between a Protools 002 and Tascam DAT SPDIF I/O
00000001 - 2005 - Feedback between a Protools 002 and Tascam DAT SPDIF I/O

Ouroboros (Fall) Analog Mixer Feedback: Ouroboros - Introduction - Realistic 4 ch stereo mixer analong feedback
Ouroboros - I - Realistic audio mixer analong feedback
Ouroboros - II - Mackie 1202 audio mixer analong feedback
Ouroboros - III - Realistic audio mixer analong feedback
Ouroboros - Interlude - Realistic audio mixer analong feedback
Ouroboros - IV - Makie 1202 audio mixer analong feedback
Ouroboros - V - Realistic audio mixer analong feedback
Ouroboros - Ad Infinitum - Realistic + Mackie 1202 audio mixers analong feedback

Live: Live Performance For the Salon Series v7 - Made with custom electronics and a modified Casio SK-1

Studies for Trumpet: Studies for Trumpet and Modified FX - I (Introduction) - Trumpet and modified Boss DD2 delay
Studies for Trumpet and Modified FX - II (Meditation) - Trumpet and modified Boss DD2 delay

Circuit Bending: At Peace - Yamaha PCS 30, Kawasaki DJ Mixer Toy, Speak and Read, Casio CTK-100

2004: A Dream Upon Waking - Arp 2600, Bowed Guitar, AM Radio, TV remote controls

(later work with reason 2.0 - 2.5 and cubase): 01 - Quadraphobia
02 - Mercedes Benzadrine
03 - Highspeed Oxford
04 - Anamorphosis
05 - Mingus?
06 - Miniboss
07 - The Test Patient
08 - Second Wind
09 - Short (Interlude)
10 - Beyond the Stars
11 - The Birth of Jan Svankmajer
12 - Kamakaze Sutra
13 - The Sandbox
14 - You're Gone
15 - Operation Iraqi Freedom (Anamorphosis - verbal edit)

(early work with reason 1.0): 01 - Ocean Side
02 - Space Age
03 - Open Rhodes
04 - New Promise
05 - Jet Lag
06 - Ionosphere
07 - Muse
08 - Breathing
09 - Distance
10 - Letting Go
11 - Waiting
12 - Destination
13 - The Dream