Steven Kemper (United States)
Composition Professor

Professor - Rutgers University
COURSE LANGUAGE
Steven teaches in: - English
LECTURE Specialty: Musical robotics, interactive dance, urban acoustic ecology and music.
Composition/lecture areas:
- Music for acoustic instruments and computers
- Electroacoustic music
- Interactive music
- Musical robotics
- Human-computer interaction in music
- New interfaces for musical expression
- Data Sonification
Steven Kemper creates music for acoustic instruments, instruments
and computers, musical robots, dance and video. His compositions have been presented at
numerous concerts and festivals around the world, and he has received awards from the
Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, Meet the Composer, the Danish Arts Council, and
the International Computer Music Association.
Steven’s research has been presented at ICMC,
NIME, and KEAMSAC, and published in Organized Sound and Leonardo. He is a co-founder of
Expressive Machines Musical Instruments, a collective dedicated to designing, building, and
composing original music for robotic instruments.
Steven received a Ph.D. in composition and
computer technologies from the University of Virginia and is currently Assistant Professor of
Music Technology and Composition in the Music Department at the Mason Gross School of the
Arts at Rutgers University.
Find out more about Steven Kemper:
www.stevenkemper.com
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