Welcome to the sound page for the Computer Music Consulting web site.
As this page grows you will be able to hear a variety of different
recordings and not all of them will be music. To hear the sounds on this web site you will
need the Real Audio player. The basic player can be
downloaded for free from the Real Audio web site. It is very easy to install and is
available for a variety of different platforms. The chief advantages of this delivery
method are the extremely small file size and the fact that you can begin listening almost
right away instead of having to download the whole file. This way you can listen to part
of a recording and if you don't want to listen further you can stop the process and begin
listening to another one almost immediately. If I simply posted audio files you would have
to download the whole file before you could listen to it.
Look for this image at the Real Audio web site and
click on it to download the free version of the Real Player G2.
Real Audio is a new feature on this site so if you have any difficulty playing at least
one of these files please let us know by clicking on the email address at the bottom of
the page. Thanks.
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This is an interview with a radio show in Texas while I was in a hotel room in Long
Beach at the 1998 Computer Game Developers Conference. The first selection sounds better
but you may experience interruptions in the audio if you don't have a fast enough internet
connection so I have provided a second version that does not sound as good but only
requires about half the connection speed.
This is a seventeen minute music demo with narration originally designed to tapes I
distribute at the Computer Game Developers Conference each year. The demo is one
continuous block of audio but I have broken it down into nine sections to make it more
convenient to listen to using Real Audio. Because of this individual segments may start
and end abruptly. I believe these all require Real Audio version G2 to play. The free
player is available at the Real Audio site. Read the top of this page for more
information.
The following table lists the content down the left. You can year the version that
will play best given your modem speed by clicking in either the 56k or 28.8k column. The
56k version sounds much better so you should choose that one if your system and connection
can handle it. The original demo is a 44.1 kilohertz 16 bit CD quality file that is 170
megabytes in size. This is just not practical to send over the internet and I don't want
visitors to have to wait to hear my music so I chose this system. Keep in mind that files
like these that are around 5% of the original file size can not possibly sound as good as
the original so you will have to use your imagination to fill in the missing sound
quality. I also chose to convert from stereo to mono since not doing so would cut the
sound quality in half. Stereo is good but good sound is more important. If your modem can
play the file in real-time then the file size doesn't matter since you will not have to
wait for the download but I am including it anyway along with the original file size just
for general interest.
Computer Music Consulting
1997 Music Demo
(in segments)
Segment Title:
|
Playing
Time:
(minutes)
|
56k modem:
mono
(kilobytes)
|
28.8k modem:
mono
(kilobytes)
|
Original 44.1/16
stereo WAV file
(size info only)
(kilobytes)
|
#1 Introduction
|
0:20 |
83 |
49 |
3,138 |
#2 F-16
|
1:49 |
437 |
287 |
18,805 |
#3 Destiny
|
2:44 |
655 |
427 |
28,137 |
#4 Phoenix Fighter
|
1:51 |
446 |
292 |
19,081 |
#5 Monopoly Deluxe
|
1:13 |
291 |
184 |
12,179 |
#6 Aladdin Original Music
|
2:17 |
546 |
357 |
23,493 |
#7 Jungle Book & Aladdin Arrangements
|
2:03 |
491 |
314 |
20,817 |
#8 American Civil War Fife&Drum / Brass
|
4:13 |
1,009 |
653 |
43,251 |
#9 Conclusion
|
0:25 |
101 |
66 |
3,953 |
Totals:
|
16:10 |
3,609 |
2,414 |
172,854 |
If you have any comments about the music you have just heard you can send them to me
by clicking the email address at the bottom of this page.
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