Stephen Travis Pope is active as a senior research specialist and composer at the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology (CREATE) at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), a lecturer in the UCSB Graduate Program in Media Arts and Technology (MAT), and a software developer and consultant through The Nomad Group.
He was born in 1955 and studied at Cornell University, the Vienna Music Academy, and the "Mozarteum" in Salzburg, Austria, receiving a variety of degrees and certificates in electrical engineering/computer science, recording engineering, and music theory and composition. He has taught both music and computer science at the graduate level, and has worked as a composer, software engineer, and performing musician. From 1988 through 1997, he served as editor-in-chief of "Computer Music Journal," published by the MIT Press.
His research interests are distributed programming, Internet content delivery, digital audio signal processing, object-oriented analysis and design, and music representation languages.
Stephen has over 90 publications on topics related to music theory and composition, computer music, artificial intelligence, graphics and user interfaces, integrated programming environments, and object-oriented programming.
He has realized his musical works at studios in America (Toronto, Stanford, Berkeley, Santa Barbara) and Europe (Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Salzburg, Vienna, Berlin).
His music is available in recorded form from Centaur Records, Perspectives of New Music, Touch Records, SBC Records, Disc0 records, and from the Electronic Music Foundation.
[Stephen Travis Pope, stp@create.ucsb.edu]