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Ritual and Memory

Stephen Travis Pope “I intend my music for rituals, or prayer, or meditation, or to animate imaginary spaces, rather than as absolute concert music. Music that is removed from a concrete and relevant social context has no life or spirit. Music is the sound of faith." Stephen Travis Pope is a composer, researcher, author, software developer, and consultant. Pope has worked as guest composer at many of the most important computer music studios in the world. He has published widely. From 1988 through 1997, he served as editor-in-chief of 'Computer Music Journal', published by the MIT Press. He is co-editor of Musical Signal Processing, and his articles have been published in 'The Well-Tempered Object: Musical Applications of Object - Oriented Software Technology' and many other books and journals. His current projects include The Siren Music Tools, The SuperCollider Tutorial, The CREATE Squeak Smalltalk Page and 'The Periodic Table of the Elements of the Spirit'. His music is available from Centaur Records, Perspectives of New Music, Touch Music, SBC Records, and Disc0 Records and EMF Media. Mr. Pope studied at Cornell University, the Vienna Music Academy, and the Mozarteum University, Salzburg, receiving a variety of degrees and certificates in electrical engineering/computer science, recording engineering, and music theory and composition. Stephen Travis Pope lives in California. He is on the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he actively composes and consults, and he pursues hisinterests in artificial intelligence, human-computer interfaces, and object-oriented software technology.

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