Paul Fishwick

Dr. Fishwick is a professor of computer science at the University of Florida. His music can be classified as "computer music" with a style similar to that found in genres such as space, ambient, newage, and electronic. He likes the combination of a sample-based synth and an analog synth, which delivers a kind of hybrid sound. For the analog sound, he uses the digitally based Nord Lead, and for the sampling, he uses a Sound Blaster 32 with 8MB of memory plus Emu 2.0 SoundFonts.

We are at the start of a revolution in music, mainly due to the computer and its relation to music, but also due to the MIDI standard which is really all about "control".

With the right technology now at his disposal, he find himself willingly relearning scales and music notation on the side. He is thirsty to learn more about music theory. But it is important to see the causal relation : He is having fun learning music theory, scales and orchestration because he now has a way to create pleasing music quickly. What a great way to learn!

Jupiter Wedding (67K 5:00 m/s) East Indian Sea Village (42K 4:58 m/s) Entrance to Thunder Park (1.5M 8:55 m/s) [With SoundFont] Ice Shelf Exploration (31K 5:11 m/s) [With SoundFont] Life Vortex [With SoundFont] (148K 15:47 m/s) Full Moon [With SoundFont] (22K 2:17 m/s) Night Owl [With SoundFont] (382K 2:17 m/s) Another 3 RealAudio 3.0 files personally encoded by Paul Organic Meteorite 23K Battle of Yorktown Coal Mine Flare On the Bonnie Shores

Be sure to load all SoundFont banks into user bank 1 via the AWE32 Control Panel. Look here for instructions on how to load SoundFonts. Click to play back a segment of the composition in RealAudio 3.0 Click to download the composition. Click here to visit Paul.

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Paul Fishwick : fishwick@cise.ufl.edu