Professor of Composition & Computer Music
School of Music
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-2504

Voice: 1 (225) 578-2594
Fax: 1 (225) 578-2562

E-mail: sdbeck@lsu.edu

Stephen David Beck is a composer of electro-acoustic music, orchestral and chamber music, and most recently, music for theater. His main focus of research is in electroacoustic sound diffusion, and in Virtual Musical Instruments, a system of human-computer interaction for live performance and improvisation.

He teaches composition and computer music at Louisiana State University. He is director of the Music & Art Digital Studio, a collaboration between the Schools of Music & Art which brings composers and visual artists together in a virtual environment for digital art and new media. He is also chair of the LSU Festival of Contemporary Music Steering Committee, which directs the oldest university-based new music festival in the US.

Beck also creates custom software for his research and composition with Virtual Musical Instruments. He is the author of Csnd.app, a NEXTSTEP user interface to Csound. He is currently porting Csnd.app to Mac OS X.

He also serves as Past President of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS).