Stephen performing at the 2018 SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas

Stephen performing at the Walpurgis Musiektheater in Mortsel, Belgium

above:  Stephen performs Yes, I'm Walking on cigar box guitar on Cigar Box Nation TV             above:  Stephen performs The King of 3 Strings and talks music.     
below:  What's Wrong  on miniature guitar        The Road West on acoustic guitar                       below:  Read the lyrics and hear Stephen's song, 
 Atomic Clock  voice and cigar box guitar                  with Yuan-Chen Li on guqin:                                                                                    Miniature Planet:                :                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Stephen with Yuan-Chen Li at the Grant Street Studio in Portland.

Below: 2017 Music OMI Fellows Stephen Cohen, Yuan-Chen Li and Alberto Novello collaborate on Where Do We Go?, a musical piece, with photos from their Music OMI residency in New York and photos from Stephen's deFENIKS artist residency in Belgium:

​Stephen talks about 2 of his instruments and plays A Pug Named Fred and Interplanetary Chatter at the close of the Music OMI
Guerilla Improvisation Concert at the Basilica in Hudson, N.Y. :

Miniature Planet                                                                                by Stephen Cohen                                      I saw a miniature planet, slowly spinning around,  I saw a miniature planet, slowly spinning around, with miniature sights and miniature sounds and miniature cities and miniature towns and miniature people with miniature brains and miniature cars and miniature trains and miniature houses and miniature planes and miniature clouds with miniature rain and miniature rivers and a miniature sea and a miniature forest with miniature trees. 
I saw a miniature planet, slowly spinning around,  I saw a miniature planet, slowly spinning around, with miniature sights and miniature sounds and miniature cities and miniature towns. There was a miniature election, with miniature selections and miniature choices with miniature voices in a miniature debate, with miniature candidates,  with miniature platforms and miniature stands and miniature minds with miniature plans. 
I saw a miniature planet, slowly spinning around, I saw a miniature planet, slowly spinning around, so I'm singing this song with my miniature guitar, and here we are. 

Ride the Train from Here was the closing piece of the 2017 Music OMI Concert in the Fields. Music OMI is an international artist residency, and Ride the Train from Here features Stephen with artists from Peru, Nigeria, United Kingdom and Germany:

Stephen composed Garden of Bees on a beer-can guitar he made as an Artist in Residence in Belgium, and later created this video: 

Stephen used a beer can from a local Belgium beer for his hand-made beer-can guitar.

He composed the piece in a studio overlooking the bees, performed it in concert, then recorded it back in Portland.

Below:    Stephen and Yuan-Chen Li perform their original piece,          Stephen plays 1 String Blues on his homemade 1 String Thing guitar.
​Flight in A, at a music and poetry event in Portland, March 25th, 2018                                            April 7th, 2018:

                 below:             photo by Ben Sussman:                              Stephen at the 2015 Pennsylvania Cigar Box Guitar Festival:                                   Red-Tailed Hawk, at the Flying Monkey Theater                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        2016 Cigar Box Guitar Festival in Huntsville, Alabama:                                                                                                                                                                            

    3 pieces on acoustic guitar:       1 hit song is Stephen on voice and acoustic guitar, Rich Hinrichsen on double bass and Jen Harrison on French horn    
​                                                                 More Than Yoko is Stephen on voice and acoustic guitar                                    No More School is a  solo acoustic guitar piece

This video below has Stephen's first album, The Tree People,                   And you can hear Thomas from the 1984 album by the Tree People,
recorded in 1979 in a studio in the woods near Eugene, Oregon,             with Stephen on voice and acoustic guitar, Jeff Stier on recorder,
and reissued in this century by record companies in Japan and Spain.       Jeremy Cohen on electric bass, and Denis Mochary on drums:      

Below: Stephen plays his homemade blue cigar box guitar:                           Below: The world premier of his custom made miniature guitar: 

​  Below left: a music video created by Stephen, Your Bus is Late​:                                      Below:  Living with the Animals:  another video created by Stephen:

Stephen created this short film/music video/work of art, the Cistern Symphony, at Fort Worden, Port Townsend, Washington in 2012, with a team of musicians and artists during his Centrum residencies. It was shown at the AVI Festival in Jerusalem, Israel in December of 2016.

​Stephen created his sculptural percussion instrument, an instrument he could get to while playing guitar, in the late 20th century, and did a series of performances and residencies with it in the early twenty-first century.

Here Comes the Band, Give Me That Toy, and Mr. Knickerbocker are on Stephen's 2006 children's and family album Here Comes the Band

"Here Comes the Band" painting by Christopher Shotola-Hardt

Stephen with guest singers at the Long Island Children's Museum. photo by Ben Sussman

Stephen playing and dancing "Mr. Knickerbocker" at the Long Island Children's Museum. photo by Ben Sussman

"You Need to Get to Know Me" is from a 2001 Oregon Public Broadcasting Art Beat show featuring Stephen's residency at Wilsonville High School, where he assisted special education students, along with several music and art students, in creating instruments out of found and recycled materials, composing music and writing songs, producing a CD, Junk Jam, and performing at the Wilsonville Festival of Arts.