Media Arts and Technology
University of California, Santa Barbara

Date: Friday, November 7, 2003
Place: ECE Conference Room
_____ Building 406, Rm. 201
Time: 3:30 pm — 4:30 pm (Refreshments served at 3:00 pm)

Abstract:
This presentation will survey the various R&D topics of the UCSB Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology (CREATE), and will place them in the larger context of music practice and new media arts and technology. The specific topics of concentration will include sound synthesis techniques and programming frameworks, support for real-time distributed processing, expert systems for multimedia data, and high-level representation languages for media data. Several examples of recent technical and artistic results will be presented and discussed.

Biography:
Stephen Travis Pope 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. From 1988 through 1997, he served as editor-in-chief of "Computer Music Journal," published by the MIT Press. He is currently active at UCSB as a senior research specialist and composer in the Dept. of Music, and a lecturer in the Graduate Program in Media Arts and Technology (MAT). His research interests are distributed programming, digital audio signal processing, object-oriented analysis and design, spatial sound, 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. His music is published by GEMA and Touch, and is available in recorded form from Centaur Records, Perspectives of New Music, Touch Records, SBC Records, Disc0 records, and from the Electronic Music Foundation.