Sound Design and Music Production    dave bristow - timbremerchant (site last updated April 2008)

• Sound Design & Electronic Music - FM, sampling and filter synthesis, preset development
• Ringtone Development - SMAF format, SMF 
• Music for Video and Multi-media projects  
• Teaching & Lectures - All aspects of Electronic Music and related fields

...for any of these services, please contact me directly by e.mail at  davebristow@bainbridge.net

   "Island Ambience" art and music DVD - follow link for details

Biography:

Dave Bristow  was born in London and began to study music on the piano at an early age. He graduated from university with a BSc in Psychology but turned his musical talents full-time to keyboards and has worked both as a professional player and in the music business ever since. He played a key role voicing the well-known DX7 synthesizer and indeed most of Yamaha's FM synthesizers up to and including the SY99, and is internationally recognized as one of the important contributors to the development and voicing of FM synthesis and co-authored a text-book on the subject with Dr John Chowning called "FM Theory and Applications". Dave has taught courses on synthesis and related acoustics in Europe and the USA, and spent three years at IRCAM in Paris, running a MIDI and synthesis studio. He moved to the United States in 1995 to work with the electronic music company Emu Systems, Inc. producing sampling based synthesizers. Following that  in 2002, he began working again with Yamaha as a consultant, focusing on the introduction and support of their MA hybrid audio chip series for cell-phones and the SMAF mobile devices format.

He now lives and works on Bainbridge Island in Washington, as executive director of the Island Music Guild, a non-profit community music school and performance center. He occasionally performs locally and teaches keyboard improvisation, electronic music and synthesis. He consults with companies on sound development and synthesis and composes electronic music for multi-media.

"Electronic music is exactly as good as it's designers make it.  Instrumental sound is defined by behavior as well as its timbre"

This site includes a personal snapshot of the author's involvement with sound design and music over the  past 30 years. Its a work in progress; the site was last updated Mar 2008.  Please obtain permission before reprinting, copying or distributing any material.