Stephen Travis Pope (b. New Jersey, USA, 1955) studied at Cornell University, the Vienna Music Academy, and the "Mozarteum" in Salzburg, Austria. He has worked as a composer, software engineer, performing musician, and social and spiritual activist. His research interests are music representation languages, digital audio signal processing, and distributed programming. He has realized his musical works at studios in America (Toronto, Stanford, Berkeley, Santa Barbara, Havana) and Europe (Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Salzburg, Vienna, Berlin). His music is available from Centaur Records, Perspectives of New Music, Touch Music, SBC Records, Disc0 Records, and the Electronic Music Foundation. He has lived in Santa Barbara, California since 1995.
