Stories in Stereo, a tour with Mike The Schwartz. Calgary to everywhere.
Storiesinstereo.
Your story. Turned into a song.
I help people who are afraid of being too much or too little turn that fear into fuel. Everyone who joins the tour is part of the band, and everyone in the band picks a song.
Mike The Schwartz, backpack producer and sonic troubadour.
Just here for the music? Press play.
How you join
Pick a place. Name a song.
1. Drop your pin
Spin the globe and tap a place in nature that holds a story for you. A forest, a river, a tree in your backyard.
2. Name your song
Give that story a title, the way you would name a track. Pick its brainwave, and add a plant and a living sound from that place if you know one.
3. You are in the band
Your pin is your seat and your title is your pick. I record the place, listen to its plants through biofeedback and turn it into neuroacoustic music.
Want a full song made from your story? Say so when you drop your pin. It is pay what you want, and I will reach out with the details. I read every story, and only what you say yes to goes on the record.
The globe
Where should the band play next?
Everyone who drops a pin is in the band. Spin the globe, tap anywhere in the world you think I should go, and name your song. I will build the next stops of the tour from your pins.
- Home base
- Locked in
- Next up
- Pins dropped
Drag to spin. Tap anywhere to drop your pin.
The trail
The setlist so far
The exchange
A tour that runs on trade.
I am building couch surfing from my side. You tell me what you can bring, and I tell you what it gets you: a song made from your story, or a coaching session. One conversation, one fair deal. We talk, and we work it out.
Cash
All in US dollars. A song like this typically goes for $1,100. The minimum is $333 one time, or $111 a month for three months. Add whatever feels right.
A place to stay
Nights on your couch, in your spare room or house-sitting. I bring my own studio.
A trade
A skill, a meal, a ride, gear, your time. If it helps the tour, it counts.
Everyone gets a seat
Under the minimum? Tell me the story anyway. We talk, and we find a way together.
Any mix
Some cash, some nights, a trade. Most offers will land here.
What you get
A song made from your story, or a coaching session. On every song we make together, you are a writer with 20% of the song's splits. If it gets placed, your share goes with it.
The music
Press play. Then come on in.
Album
Salt Spring Island in C
Listen first
Mike The Schwartz. Bio-ambient art rock built from the island. Streaming links are on the way.
The band
You're in the band.
Stories in Stereo is the tour. Mike The Schwartz is the producer: the composer, the one holding it down. Everyone who participates is part of the story.
Nature is in the lineup too. I turn the trees, rivers and living landscapes of every place I visit into sound, through biofeedback and biosonification. Heck, my own biofeedback might just end up on the record too!
People who share their stories with me are invited to share them on the album. You face adversity, you get brave enough to move through it, and you share it in community. If you want your story or your biofeedback on the record, that is always your call. I'm happy to spread your message.
How a song gets made
- 1You tell me the story.
- 2I record the place it lives.
- 3We write it together.
- 4You are a writer on it, with 20%. You're officially a rockstar now. Congrats.
Art is art. A living thing, made by people.
Somewhere along the way, creativity turned into content. Songs became inventory, artists became suppliers, and a feed decides what gets heard.
I think streaming works for Spotify, Apple and the streaming companies, and pays the people who make the music pennies. Artists deserve fair pay and a fair say. So a few of my songs sit on the big platforms to help people find me. The rest lives on artist-friendly platforms and right here, where you hear it from me.
Same story with people.
Everyone is told to be a brand, a niche, a funnel. Keep it safe, keep it repeatable, keep your failures hidden.
I spend my days helping people go the other way. Be brave and bear adversity. Tap into your own creative genius, the part that was there before anyone told you what sells. Embrace failing with courage, because on the other side of that fear is everything you want.
Stories in Stereo is a movement. I'm building a band of Rebels with a story to share.
The community
Come inside.
The Music Recovery Club is where the stories, the songs and the tour updates live. Joining is free. Members at $49 a month get exclusive releases, learn to use my music for themselves, and get first priority in the quarterly BeatRx certification.
Inside
- 1Follow the tour as it happens.
- 2Hear the songs as they are made.
- 3Tell me where to go next.
- 4Upgrade any time for exclusive releases.