Steven Kemper is a creative music technologist, instrument designer, and composer. As a creative music technologist Steven’s scholarship blends technical development, creative output, and humanistic inquiry. His approach focuses on developing technologies that enhance the connectivity between computer-based music and the physical world, and how we can view both cutting-edge and historical musical technologies through the lenses of anthropomorphism, embodiment, and the cyborg. Research areas include musical robotics, instrument design, human-computer interaction, gesture, and musical expression. Steven’s research has been presented at NIME, ICMC, and MOCO, and published in Leonardo, Leonardo Music Journal, Organised Sound, and Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 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. Steven’s first solo album of electroacoustic music, Mythical Spaces, was released by Ravello Records in 2018. He has received awards for his music from the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, Meet the Composer, the Danish Arts Council, and the International Computer Music Association. Steven is currently Associate Professor of Computer Music and Digital Arts at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.