Stephen Christopher Stamper

About Me

Growing tired of the constraints of sequencers, samplers and loops, and inspired by the likes of Oren Ambarchi and Keith Fullerton Whitman, London resident Stephen Christopher Stamper made the decision to open himself up to the joys of spontaneous music making. Armed with a copy of Miller Puckette's Pure Data, a laptop and a MIDI guitar controller, Stephen began experimenting with real-time processing, running pure sine-tones and sawtooth waves through banks of delays, shufflers and filters in order to create a series of warm, improvised drones teeming with microscopic life...

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Member Since: 6/24/2008
Band Members: Stephen Christopher Stamper - real-time improvisation on Pure Data, laptop and MIDI guitar controller with minimum post-production.
Influences: Keith Fullerton Whitman, Radian, Oren Ambarchi, Fennesz, Tim Hecker, Bark Psychosis, Disco Inferno, Seefeel, Sunn O))), Grave Temple, Attila Csihar, Stephen O'Malley, Earth, Celtic Frost, Wolves In The Throne Room...
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Recent Activity!

Hi all, sorry there's not been much activity on this here MySpace page these past few weeks. I've been getting back into chip tunes lately and I guess most of my creative energies have been plowed int...
Posted by Stephen Christopher Stamper on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:30:00 PST

Thank you!

I've been blown away these past few days by all the lovely comments and messages I've been receiving about my music - thank you one and all, it really keeps me going! Cheers!...
Posted by Stephen Christopher Stamper on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:30:00 PST

Laughing Stock

After messing about with Pure Data, my battered, old acoustic guitar and a cheap, clip-on condenser mic last night, I came up with a little something which (sort of) put me in mind of Talk T...
Posted by Stephen Christopher Stamper on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:15:00 PST

Black/Doom/Drone

I guess I've been listening to too much Gravetemple's 'Ambient-Ruin' and Tony Conrad's 'Joan Of Arc' lately! How else can I explain the suffocating roar of my latest track? The title came from an idea...
Posted by Stephen Christopher Stamper on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:39:00 PST

Whistler’s Mother

Did some more work on the 'Whistler' sketch this morning - definitely a bit of a Tim Hecker influence coming through! Enjoy!
Posted by Stephen Christopher Stamper on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:49:00 PST

Whistle While You Work!

Just uploaded a quick musical sketch I knocked up in honour of Stephen P. McGreevy (http://www.auroralchorus.com/) called 'Whistler' - enjoy!...
Posted by Stephen Christopher Stamper on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:29:00 PST

Waves of Feedback

After being blown away by the mighty Gravetemple at The Underworld last Thursday night, I was inspired to add a crushing layer of tar-black distortion to my version of 'A Sailor's ...
Posted by Stephen Christopher Stamper on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:08:00 PST