Hi! The name's Steven Buehler, and I grew up surrounded by inspiration from so many things—the world around me, the creativity and fantasy of others, and my personal Christian faith. 

Just a little over thirty years ago, I was a worship musician, composer, arranger, and performer on the keys and guitar in Southern California. Back then I self-released a pair of projects, simply titled "Red" and "White", of the material I had composed over that time on what would now be considered a rather crude setup—a PC with a wavetable card, a busted-up Akai X-7000 as a MIDI controller…

Fast forward to the early mid-2000s, now living in Florida, and life came apart at the seams. Some of it was my own doing in the form of addiction and the taking of many things for granted; the rest came from being diagnosed as an adult with Type I Autism. Not to mention over that time there was the fallout from those aforementioned issues—layoffs, divorce, bankruptcy, marrying again (this time to my jr. high crush), and then becoming a widower by the late-2010s.

When I was diagnosed, I chose the route of treatment with antipsychotic medication. Not that there's anything wrong with that; it's just that I only learned twenty years later, after long-term health issues required me to wean off of it (with significant difficulty), how much I had missed, how much I could've done and been. There's now this massive flood of twenty-plus years of pent-up emotion, passion, inspiration, and creativity in desperate need of an outlet. 

Out of that comes this self-produced project that I hope to complete and have released to the world by the end of 2026, followed potentially by additional projects thereafter. TSOS is primarily instrumental, synth-based, and across multiple genres—ambient, smooth jazz, orchestral metal, EDM. The name comes from the things that inspire me, all of which mean looking UP, including but not limited to whether it's to the heavens, the stars, the world around us, Disney fantasy, and the need to look to something (someone?) much greater than we are. It also reflects the academic curiosity with which I've always approached life—"be curious, not judgmental" (incidentally, never actually stated by Walt Whitman contrary to a certain TV show…).