Stephen Christopher Hummel, born October 20, 1974 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is a Canadian electronic musician, producer, and performer who operates under the project name SubtractiveLAD. Hummel's debut studio album, Giving Up the Ghost, appeared in 2005. Hummel followed this release with the studio albums Suture (2006), No Man's Land (2007), Apparatus (2008), and Where the Land Meets the Sky (2009). Hummel's subsequent album releases include Life at the End of the World (2010), Kindred (2011), The Language of Flowers (2013), and Wilderness (2014). Hummel also composed film music for projects including Fierce Light, Glorious, and Build It. In 2023, Hummel released the collaborative album Ocean with Tamika Roberts.
