Steven Kemper is a creative music technologist, instrument designer, and composer. As a composer, Steven 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 his first solo album of electroacoustic music, Mythical Spaces, was released by Ravello Records in 2018. Steven is a co-founder of Expressive Machines Musical Instruments (EMMI), a collective dedicated to creating and composing music for robotic instruments. He also co-developed the RAKS (Remote electroAcoustic Kinesthetic Sensing) System, a wireless sensor interface designed specifically for belly dancers with composer and dancer Aurie Hsu. Steven’s research has been published in Leonardo, Leonardo Music Journal, Organised Sound, and Frontiers in Robotics and AI. Steven is currently Associate Professor of Computer Music and Digital Arts at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
