Stephen Pope

Stephen Travis Pope is an award-winning composer, film-maker, computer scientist and social activist based in Santa Barbara, California. He is currently active as a software development contractor and intellectual property expert through FASTLab. From 1996-2010 he was affiliated with the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology (CREATE), in the Dept. of Music, and the Graduate Program in Media Arts and Technology (MAT) at UC Santa Barbara. Before that, he lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for a decade, working at Xerox PARC, Stanford's CCRMA and UC Berkeley's CNMAT.

His music and video compositions are released through HeavenEverywhere Media. Stephen is also a practicing Quaker, a conscientious objection counsellor, a trained Reiki practitioner, a facilitator with the Alternatives to Violence Project, and active prison clergy registered with the California Dept. of Corrections.