An Evening with Dave Bristow

December, 7 2004 at Bad Animals

Dave Bristow was heavily involved in the development of the Yamaha DX7. He will talk about the history of FM synthesis, and the transition of FM, since its introduction as a commercial synthesis in the 80s, to occupying 40% of the world ringtone/cellphone market. Topics covered may include commercial ringtone development (a new market for composers), psychoacoustics, and electronic music fundamentals.

Dave Bristow is once again working closely with Yamaha on the development and voicing of their FM ringtone audio chips for mobile devices. He has spent the last couple of years making numerous ringtones, voices and system alert sounds in Yamaha's SMAF format (Synthetic music Mobile Audio Format). He also provides expert support for their USA based network of SMAF content developers. In addition he teaches Electronic Music at Olympic College, does keyboard improvisation from his home studio, the occasional gig and working on music/video projects with local artists on Bainbridge Island. He also spent some years with Emu systems in Santa Cruz, working on sampling keyboard instruments and various other projects - and a couple of years at Creative Technologies with the original Nomad Jukebox design team.

2004 Past Events