Background
He was born on August 6, 1953 in Santa Monica, California in the United States.
He was born on August 6, 1953 in Santa Monica, California in the United States.
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.
He is best known for his musical animations and his computer program, the Music Animation Machine, which produces animated graphical scores. He visualizes music using a system of colored shapes, taking information from a MIDI file. He has collaborated with artists such as Vincent Lo, Alexander Peskanov, Björk, and the Delegate Sol Quartet.
He began his experiments with animated graphical scores in 1974 after taking LSD and listening to Bach.
The first version of the Music Animation Machine software was created in 1985. In 1984 he began working as a software engineer
In 1990 Malinowski started selling video tapes with his animations on them, and Classic Arts Showcase began broadcasting his animations. In 2001, he began working on psychoacoustically inspired audio processing algorithms.
In 2012, he developed a version of his Music Animation Machine that could synchronize his animations with realtime performances, and premiered it with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Shelley on October 12 and 13.
He also showcased the same technology in a TEDx talk in Zurich. His animations have been featured by the recording artist Björk, and also have been featured at the TEDx conference in Zurich, Switzerland. As of October 25, 2012, his YouTube Channel featuring his musical animations had received over 100 million views.