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Stephen Anthony Malinowski (born August 6, 1953) is an American composer, pianist, inventor, educator, and software engineer.

Malinowski studied music theory and composition with Thea Musgrave, Peter Fricker, Stanley Dale Krebs and David Barton at the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received a B.M. in 1981 and was a guest lecturer 1981-1982.

Subsequently, he worked as a music copyist for Ernst Bacon (1982-1983), as a rehearsal pianist at the University of California, Berkeley (1982-1984), and as a software engineer for the northern California firms Innosys, Inc. (1984-2001) and Audience, Inc. (2001-2010).

In 2011, he collaborated with singer Björk on the project Biophilia_(album), creating animations used in her concerts and in the Biophilia app (for iPad, iPhone, iPod).

He is the inventor of the Music Animation Machine, the composer of Fugue for Friday (based on the Dragnet theme), and a frequent contributor to YouTube. He has also written about Computer-Assisted Performance.