Shawn Phase
From Bossies
| Shawn Phase | |
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 Let it never be said that Shawn is all talk and no action.
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| Background information | |
| Occupations | Musician, Songwriter, Producer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, prepared guitar, programming |
| Years active | 1981 - present |
| Labels | Aural Foundation Experiments |
| Associated acts | temp sound solutions |
| Website | www.tempsoundsolutions.com |
Shawn Phase is simply Shawn Douglas Phase, of Baltimore, Maryland. Tssbay01.
The following outlines the primary reasons why shawn phase is the most important person on the shizz, not to mention the internet.
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A Legend is Born
He was born at Franklin Square Hospital in the White Marsh area of Baltimore at 10:33am on Febuary 13th, 1978. An interesting tale recounted by his mother depicts her waiting in room 13 after delivery, when a baby the was to be brought to a waiting mother was brought down the hall and promptly and inadvertedly dumped out of the cradle that was holding him. Shawn's parents having seen this and thinking that this baby was their child was sussed out by a nurse, and Shawn's parents went to get him, a procedure that would not ever be allowed in todays hospitals across the country. Many years later it was uncovered that this child grew up with birth defects as a result of being dropped by the nurse.
The Saga Begins
Shawn's early days were spent learning to read by picking up letters and abbreviations off of street signs, menus, and labels of anything and everything. He learned to read at age 3, and was put into first grade aged 4 at Harford Heights Elementary School in the Gifted and Talented Education program, where he soon met close friends such as Nick Bertling, drummer for seminal baltimore funk band puddle as well as ex-The Idea Men band mate Gary Barrett's Gary B and the Notions, among others that to this day play a role in his life.
An Orchid Blossoms
Shawn attended middle school at Hamilton Middle School, in a part of the 'advanced academics' program. Ahead of most kids his age, he had a clamoring sense of using his energy for the sake of good, and promptly picked up playing in the school's jazz ensemble and orchestra. They released 2 cassettes between the years of 1988 and 1991, with 1990 seeing Shawn Phase's first statewide award, best jazz drummer in his age group. It was the performance of the song 'Drum Machine' that led the jazz enseble to this victory, led by conductor Alvin Wallace.
Iit was at the now defunct Towson Catholic College Prep High School that Shawn experimented with many different ethics and moods to his music, ranging from e-pop, to folk, to 'emotional' (or emo, which is not to say that the music he made was definitive of 'emo' by today's standards). He started a publication newsletter in his sophomore year called 'Powar' that was released on 11"x17" paper, produced pro-bono in exchange for significant library computer assistance. With the advent of early iterations of the internet, as well as other successful archival tools such as gopher, lynx and webcrawler, as well as online wwiv bbs systems and networks, Shawn volunteered his time to help other students access online information for reports and assignments when it was not easily available in the constantly expanding library. With Mr Sharkey the librarian, he worked as an 'unspoken aid' to assist in archiving both hard copy of printed materials as well as maintain and deliver a/v equipment used in classrooms and for school demonstrations.
The World's Only College Graduate
Shawn graduated in 1995, with accolades such as being a member of the National Art Honor Society, pioneering the music program for the school in his junior year, and also had volunteered in excess of the required 160 hours at meridian nursing home in Hamilton, helping the elderly by distributing meals, helping with card games, telling stories, and bringing videos from home for people to watch. it was at this time between 1992 and 1995 that he was dubbed 'the golden boy' by many of the nursing home's inhabitants. Shawn graduated in the top 90th percentile of his class.
Ascension to Brilliance
As Shawn's life continued, the desire for complete musical coherency and consistency plagued his existence. This came with a large price and necessitated fairly large sums of money for equipment at a young age. He was able to make money with his visual art, often painting commissioned artwork of different anime characters in school, mounting the painted art on foam board and selling at a local anime shop, winning valuable magic cards in ante game rules, or playing the odd paying show in a bar without a fake id.
Through the years of writing and recording music, Shawn saved and worked to build backlines of equipment for his bands Grandizer and The Idea Men. It is speculated that Shawn earned and spent in the area of $4000 by age 17 for recording time and equipment, most notably the mammoth liverig that was used by [[The Idea Men], which consisted of 2 cabinets sporting 2x10" speakers and 1x18" speaker each driven by a 400 watt amplifier sold to them by Eric Axelson of The Dismemberment Plan, a full guitar stack, as well as different guitars and recording equipment.
A large amount of 4 and 8 track cassette material was recorded, as well as the odd 7" and compilation songs under various monikers such as The First Prototype, Glorious Fourlane, and Autospy, and several demos were made, but never shopped or released, with exception of the 'Heart As Far As Hands' 12" by The Idea Men, released in 1995. This was a trend that would plague him as his work continued, the essence being the struggle with simple engineering and completion of a project or task in order to present it with a modicum of respect to the art that was the same as envisioned, but doing so much, much later.
A "Nobel" Individual, Indeed
Shawn phase won the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for economics, when he created the absolute theorum for making the most beautiful music that any human ear could ever perceive. Because of its immense appeal, it caused an incredible upward spiral in the economy as nearly 3 billion records were sold of Shawn's jazz drumming alone, most notably the epic Cheater Stick Fetish. He has not slowed down since, making over 25 releases a year, each with 63 or more tracks. All of them are called by even such critical musical reviewers as Pitchfork as being "the musical equivalent of shitting doves".
The Golden Boy Reigns
During the years of 1997-present, over 185 releases were written and recorded under mainly the 'temp sound solutions' imprint, but several other releases such as Grandizer, The Idea Men, Horsetaint, as well as more memorable live recordings and much older recordings were released. A majority of these releases that were committed to CD or CDR were limited to 500 copies, and the music has been released on cd/cdr, 7", cassette, as well as compilations or distributed on netlabels or via the soulseek community. Love him or hate him, or both, Shawn Phase has strived to put his convictions above all else in an effort to complete the goals that he has set for himself. He will never, ever, under any circumstances, say die.
Back to the Future, or Shaping it?
Shawn Phase is currently looking to win his second lifetime Nobel prize, this time shooting for the Nobel prize in literature. His grand plan has been self-described as looking to reshape the way the people perceive feelings on the internet. One of his main plans is implementing a new emoticon system as well as building and marketing the first true 'Neural Net' to be implemented in the first version of Internet 2.0. His sponsors include many of the founding fathers of the modern internet, including Albert Gore. He plans to have these efforts fully completed by the end of 2010.
Interesting Recent Endeavors
In late 2009, Shawn was rumored to have learned a revolutionary and unheard of kinetic space-time bending technique that allows him to both predate and supercede time in relation to both rhythm and melody, as well as other types of sonic affairs. He has gone so far in some cases to claim to be able to use this technique with any type of sound. To date, very little scientific information is known externally about his self-proclaimed ability to exist within a seperate timeline, when most recently questioned about it as well as interest in it at the end of October 2009 at a internet-celebrity roast, all that he would offer for comment was 'its complicated..involves both natural delay as much as human error and involves two planes' and that it 'employs rough techniques..get outta here! [sic] Keffer!'. Sources close to his home at TSSBAY01 have inferred that the subtle early impacts in standard db rating tests conducted in an atypical two-point equidistant projection suggests that he may have indeed broken the time-space continuum, but skeptics remain optimistic and refuse to comment upon inquiry.
