Phil Stone studied experimental music at Wesleyan University and Mills College, and has been a professional software developer for over forty years. Career highlights include development of some of the earliest commercial music software in the early eighties, as well as work in virtual reality and three-dimensional sound localization at NASA-Ames in the late eighties and nineties.

For the last thirty years, he has been a programmer for the University of California, first at Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science, then at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.

In addition to his work with The Hub, he has accompanied the Laura Pawel Dance Company of New York with live original electronic music regularly since 1986, and plays bass with Sacramento's The Uncovered.

As of 2023, he is enjoying retirement from the University of California and lives in Davis, California.