About The Artist
Located in New Westminster
Connection to Fraser Valley: Contributor to the downtown Abbotsford art punk scene during the early aughts. Co-Founder of internationally acclaimed dance punk band You Say Party! We Say Die! Former CIVL programmer and host of POPULARITY CONTEST (2011-2013), a weekly highlight of the national Earshot Charts. Artistic Director of Jam in Jubilee (2012-2014). Board Member of the Casse-Tete Experimental Music Festival.
Stephen Carl O’Shea is an award-winning minimal sound artist and songwriter from New Westminster, British Columbia. Getting his start as ‘Steve O’Scene’ at the turn of the millennium, he co-founded new-wave band You Say Party! We Say Die! in 2003. Stephen has toured across three continents and played hundreds of shows in dive bars, all-ages spaces, and music festivals of considerable stature.
In the Spring of 2019, Stephen released “EXPANSE”, an audio-visual composition created with Montreal-based artist and musician Daniel Ross. EXPANSE was nominated in two categories (Electronic, Experimental) at the 2019 Fraser Valley Music Awards. EXPANSE was recognized in the Electronic category.
In January 2021, Stephen announced a new album entitled DECADE. Releasing one minute of music via Bandcamp on the last day of each month for the next ten years, the album will culminate in a 120-minute continuous composition. Now in its sixth year, the development of this album continues to explore tonal landscapes and sonic experiments.