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Stephen is a musician and composer. He is the chief performer, arranger and studio engineer at Persona Digital Studio. He started the Trinity Band in 1996 which became the Trinity P2500 Band in 2007. The Persona Classical Ensemble was also formed in 2007 to arrange and record pieces by JS Bach and and Amadeus Mozart.  He  has written that singing, dancing and playing music are the best expressions of humans. His review of popular music starting in the 1940's brings him pleasure and inspiration to  develop new compositions.  He is most attracted to beautiful ballads, modern jazz and  music with lyrical melodies.

He studied piano for many years, beginning a at age 5. As a child, he was immersed in classical music. In high school he started to play the trumpet in bands and continues to play trumpet and flugelhorn parts on the keyboard. Recording technology evolved quickly since he was a child. He recalls that tape recorders fascinated him and by 10 years of age, he began to use  tape recorders to  edit and assemble the music that appealed to him. In the early 70s, he learned electronics, began building synthesizers and experimented with psychoacoustics. He

His studies in neuroscience integrated nicely with his study of electronic sound processing and sound processing in the brain. He treats music as a form of language, separate from, but related to spoken languages. Music can be understood in terms of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics in the same way that spoken language is analysed. Stephen has observed that when he is preoccupied writing books, his musical creativity is impaired and visa versa. Music and spoken language share some of the same brain processors and compete. Singing brings music and spoken language together in a powerful combination.  

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