Stephen Anthony Malinowski is an

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, and

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. He was born on August 6, 1953, in

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. He is best known for his musical

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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,

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, and the

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. Malinowski studied music theory and composition with

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, Peter Fricker, Stanley Dale Krebs, and David Barton at the

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at the

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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

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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

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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

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, conducted by

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, on October 12 and 13. He also showcased the same technology in a

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talk in

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. His animations have been featured by the recording artist

and also have been featured at the

conference in Zurich,

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. As of October 14, 2024, hi
YouTube channel
featuring his musical animations had received over 194 million views. Stephen lives in northern California with his wife Christine.

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External links

Personal website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Malinowski, Stephen 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