Stephen Carl O'Shea

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 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 Daniel Ross. EXPANSE was nominated for 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. DECADE has been nominated in the Experimental category in the 2021 Fraser Valley Music Awards.