Description
Artist: Stephen Dubois
Title: Astin's Sky Adventure
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Format: CD, Album
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Country: US
Region: Buffalo, NY
UPC: 705020687216
Description:
This was such a fun pair of projects! I had the great fortune to score these late in 2014. What I love about the Howard B. Owens Planetarium, located in Lanham, MD, is that it provides so many opportunities to engage the student body to contribute such things as original artwork, technical support and narration. These two shows did just that and the artwork, seen throughout the CD packaging, shows the creativity and talent of these students. I am hopeful to be able to work for them again and cannot wait to see what magic they create when a group of students and faculty come together to work as a team of educators – delighting audiences under the dome with their results.
About the Artist:
Composer Stephen Dubois has been working in the planetarium field for the last 33 years. He has scored original music for 8 documentary programs: Mister Frost and the Skies of Winter, Eclipse: Into the Shadow, Our Invisible Universe, Constellations of the Zodiac, 2012: Prophecy of Doom, From the Blue Planet to the Red Planet, Unlocking the Solar System and Astin's Sky Adventure. His music has been heard in planetariums throughout the USA and North America including the Whitworth Ferguson Planetarium (Buffalo, NY), The Traveler's Science Dome Planetarium (Hartford, CT) and the Howard B. Owens Science Center (Greenbelt, MD.) Since childhood, music has been a huge part of Stephen's life. He started composing in 1979 using piano, organ and found objects. By the mid 1980's, he began to employ synthesizers, percussion and sampling. Influenced by countless genres of music he describes his sound as "space music with shades of contemporary classical." He has released five full length albums: "The Frost Sessions", "Our Invisible Universe", "2012: Prophecy of Doom" "From the Blue Planet to the Red Planet" and "Astin's Sky Adventure" along with one holiday single: "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen." In 2015 he wrote a score for the short subject documentary film, "Cherokee," for Rick Inglasbe Studio as well as scoring that studio's 2016 documentary film, "Miracle on Panther Mountain." In early 2020, Stephen released his 6th album: "Beyond the Dome" a collection of material not from any planetarium or full-dome programs but rather completely new set of pieces unlike his previous albums. Whereas much of the soundtrack work can be called 'background music' the tracks on "Beyond the Dome" are 'foreground' music.
