Stephen Anthony Malinowski is an American composer,

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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,

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, and the Del Sol Quartet. Malinowski studied music theory and composition with Thea Musgrave, Peter Fricker, Stanley Dale Krebs, and David Barton at the College of Creative Studies 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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while under the influence of LSD. 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 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 Alexander Shelley, on October 12 and 13. He also showcased the same technology in a

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talk in Zurich. His animations have been featured by the recording artist

and also have been featured at the

conference in Zurich, Switzerland. As of June 13, 2017, hi
YouTube Channel
featuring his musical animations had received over 150 million views.

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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