Stephen Travis Pope

Biography:

Cornell University, Vienna Music Academy, specialties: computer music software, music representation and databases, graphical user interfaces, spatial sound and virtual environments.

Stephen Travis Pope's research interests are distributed programming, Internet content delivery, audio signal processing, and music representation languages. His technical love is applying object-oriented software technology (primarily the Smalltalk programming language) to real-world problems. From 1988 through 1997, he served as editor-in-chief of "Computer Music Journal," published by the MIT Press, and has over 80 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 atcomputer music studios in the Americas (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, The Electronic Music Foundation, and on MIT Press CD/CD-ROMs. He has been an officer of the International Computer Music Association, and was elected a lifetime member by the board of directors in 1990. He is also a member of advisory committees of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Audio Engineering Society (AES).