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Stephen Anthony Malinowski is an
American
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composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
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,
pianist
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,
educator
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,
software engineer
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, and
inventor
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. He was born on August 6, 1953 in
Santa Monica
Santa Monica (; Spanish: ''Santa Mónica'') is a city in Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 U.S. Census population was 93,076. Santa Monica is a popular resort town, owing to ...
,
California
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.
He is best known for his musical
animations
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and his computer program, the Music Animation Machine, which produces animated graphical scores. He visualizes music using a system of colored shapes, taking information from a MIDI file. He has collaborated with artists such as Vincent Lo,
Alexander Peskanov
Alexander Peskanov (; ) is a Ukrainian-American concert pianist and composer.
Life
Alexander Peskanov was born in Odesa, Ukraine, where he attended the Stoliarsky School of Music, studying first under Rosalia Leontievna Molodietzkaya, who was a ...
,
Björk
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, and the
Del Sol Quartet
The Del Sol Quartet is a string quartet based in San Francisco, California that was founded in 1992 by violist Charlton Lee.
Del Sol has commissioned and premiered thousands of works from a diverse range of international composers, including Terr ...
.
Malinowski studied music theory and composition with
Thea Musgrave
Thea Musgrave CBE (born 27 May 1928) is a Scottish composer of opera and classical music. She has lived in the United States since 1972.
Biography
Born in Barnton, Edinburgh, Musgrave was educated at Moreton Hall School, a boarding independent ...
,
Peter Fricker, Stanley Dale Krebs, and David Barton at the
College of Creative Studies
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at the
University of California, Santa Barbara
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, where he received a B.M. in 1981 and was a guest lecturer 1981–1982.
He began his experiments with animated graphical scores in 1974 after an experience he had listening to
Johann Sebastian Bach
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while under the influence of
LSD
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. The first version of the Music Animation Machine software was created in 1985. In 1984 he began working as a software engineer. In 1990 Malinowski started selling video tapes with his animations on them, and
Classic Arts Showcase
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began broadcasting his animations. In 2001, he began working on psychoacoustically-inspired audio processing algorithms.
In 2012, he developed a version of his Music Animation Machine that could synchronize his animations with realtime performances; he premiered it with the
Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra
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, conducted by
Alexander Shelley
Alexander Gordon Shelley (born 8 October 1979) is an Echo Music Prize-winning English conductor. He is currently music director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, as well as principal associate conductor of the Royal Philharmonic ...
, on October 12 and 13.
He also showcased the same technology in a
TEDx
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talk in
Zurich.
His animations have been featured by the recording artist
Björk
Björk Guðmundsdóttir ( , ; born 21 November 1965), known mononymously as Björk, is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and actress. Noted for her distinct three-octave vocal range and eccentric persona, she has de ...
and also have been featured at the
TEDx
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conference in Zurich,
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
.
As of June 13, 2017, hi
YouTube Channelfeaturing his musical animations had received over 150 million views.
References
External links
Personal website
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American male classical composers
American classical composers
1953 births
Living people
Musicians from Santa Monica, California
University of California, Santa Barbara alumni
Classical musicians from California