Steve Ball Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Redmond, Wa

Identity UX in Cloud & Enterprise division. Driving redesign and simplification of sign in / sign up and account management for MSA / AAD including work to converge consumer and enterprise identity stacks and kill passwords. More recently: initiated sign in simplifications for Frontline Workers. Most recently: working to integrate acquired startup (CloudKnox) people and product into Microsoft.

Redmond

Incubated http://www.surfaceremixproject.com/ a new hardware-driven project for context-driven mixing and mashing music on Surface. Details: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK6Hs-qHh84 We filmed this video in Joe's home studio. The project was canceled in 2014 after two years to focus on Surface core productivity scenarios.

Redmond

Lead for Search, View, and Command team in UEX. Responsible for a range of Windows 8 features including putting the ribbon in Windows Explorer, the copy UX, File APIs, the File Picker, App to App picking, modern context menus, and the modern app Splash Screen.

Seattle, Wa

In June of 2017, I took on a challenge to produce a music project with an old friend, Paris composer and pianist, Tim Root. Together, we assembled a team of world-class musicians, each known world-wide for their mastery and unique voice on their instrument(s). We came together to learn, rehearse, arrange and record six intense, poly-rhythmic, poly-tonal compositions that Tim had just completed. Ten of us worked for a week in October of 2017, rehearsing for four days, then recording for three days the six track that are now being mastered for release in Spring of 2018. We recorded at the historic Bear Creek studio in Woodinville,. and we've launched a PledgeMusic campaign to finance completion and release.

Greater Seattle Area

Tiny Orchestral Moments (led by Steve Ball) is an international community of musicians who periodically converge to practice, write, rehearse, record, perform, improvise, and live. Expanding on 30 years of experience in Robert Fripp's "Guitar Craft" school, including many of its longest participating members, Tiny Orchestral Moments integrates collaboration, co-habitation, meditation, mindfulness, and continuous inclusive improvisation into their work as a group.Tiny Orchestral Moments has many members from around the world and are constantly evolving and adding new instrumentation, ideas, methods of conducting, rehearsing, recording, and performing to their experience. Steve is now working with Seattle film director, Louise Amandes on a 12-part documentary series exploring the people, processes and practices of Tiny Orchestral Moments. In one phrase, "the little red light is always on."

Redmond, Washington, United States

Ballistic Music is the label and events production entity behind the music, performance, production, and arts event promotion work, active in the Seattle Area since 1996. Ballistic Music has been producing and releasing music for Steve Ball, Electric Gauchos, Seattle Guitar Circle, Big Time Trio, Zum, Tiny Orchestral Moments.

Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

In 1994, Steve joined Los Gauchos Alemanes and invested 3 years in performances, tours and recordings all over Argentina and Seattle. Their release 'Little Beast' was released on Discipline Global Mobile (and is being re-released as a 25th anniversary remaster in 2021.) In 1997, Steve, Fernando Kabusacki and Martin Schwutke aligned with Alex Anthony Faide and Fernando Samalea to form Electric Gauchos, moving the previous acoustic repertoire to electrics with drums. Electric Gauchos is still active today, with 13 full length CD releases, dozens of videos -- and more on the way. * * *

Greater Seattle Area

C3 was a long-term collaboration between Seattle musicians Steve Ball and Paul O’Rear. C3 was an evolution of the Steve Ball Roadshow, a guitar-based ensemble that performed in and around the Seattle area from 1997 - 2010. Before settling in Seattle, Steve Ball was a long time member of the League of Crafty Guitarists, founder of the Seattle Guitar Circle, and core member of international guitar ensembles Los Gauchos Alemanes and Electric Gauchos. C3 music is characterized by odd, intricate and interlocking guitar parts complemented with stacked vocal harmonies. C3 performances featured a constantly morphing line-up of world-class guest musicians who collaborate to present improvised songscapes and multi-layered story-songs. Arrangements, tempos, keys, and harmonies unfold dynamically and musically in the moment, and no song or show is ever performed exactly the same way twice. C3 performed woven arrangements of both new and familiar songs by Steve Ball, the group as well as carefully chosen covers by Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, Jane Siberry, Kate Bush, the Roches, Talking Heads, Yes, Genesis, and Todd Rundgren. C3 2013 live collaborators: Ivan Lee, Jaxie Binder, Stephen Thompson, Nathan Grigg, Igor Abuldaze. C3 2013 studio contributors also include Ivan Lee, Davide Rossi (Coldplay!) and Christian Heilman. In 2103, Steve Ball produced and released an interactive C3 iPad app called "Motion Study" available now in the Apple Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/c3-motion-study/id647160365?mt=8 Twelve C3 songs are transformed into a moving, multi-layered musical mash-up, a playfully pliable puzzle. Motion Study is visual and visceral way to experience the motion & emotion in this evocative music.* * *

Managed the Windows Audio Video Excellence PM team through Windows Vista RTM.

A great education in what not to do and how and when not to do it. This was YouTube, six years too early. Series A was funded by George Zachary at Mohr Davidow (among others). This was the show Silicon Valley, played out in reality.

Redmond, Wa

PM working on Win98 PlusPak (Themes), WinME (Music Activity Center), and Neptune (Shell).

Red West C

I began working on MSN 2.5 (Hartford) on the Interactive Music show "Rifff" building interactive music 'videos' for the web with well-known musicians like Graham Nash, Mark Mothersbaugh, Alan White, Jane Siberry, Philip Glass and many others.

Charles Town, West Virginia

Apprenticeship: learned, taught, wrote and played music with international ensemble of guitarists. Also, organized courses, booked tours, made the merch (including picks!) balanced the books, and played the shows. A great education. And now, a network of 4000+ guitarists around the world who continue to practice, perform, record, and release music in this form and format.