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Brian Willoughby
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Self-portrait, sitting in my Honda CRX

Musical Interests

I don't do drugs of any kind, not even caffeine...
I do music!

Favorite Artists (ca 1995)

Much of what I am listening to these days was influenced by my good luck in happening upon a used copy of the leaving time, by Michael Shrieve and Steve Roach with David Torn. I have almost everything released by these three talented musicians. In a similar vein, Jorge Reyes, Suzo Sáiz, Robert Rich, and Vidna Obmana are just a few of the other excellent solo artists who have worked with Steve Roach on occasion.

A little over two years ago I had never heard of techno music (except you might count the group Yello), but a single day of taking a friend of mine who was visiting from out of town to Seattle's best import shops introduced me to a world of new music from the likes of Richard David James (a.k.a. The Aphex Twin), Biosphere, Orbital, William Ørbit, as well as Richard H. Kirk's projects like Sandoz and Sweet Exorcist. Although they're not strictly techno, my friend also turned me on to Intermix and Delerium, side-projects of the guys in Front Line Assembly.

Other related interests include Banco de Gaia, µ-Ziq, the HIA (oscillate : higher intelligence agency), The Future Sound of London, nine inch nails, and Miranda Sex Garden.

Here's what I was listening to a decade or more ago that still survives on my current playlist:

Pat Metheny
The less-commercial works of Peter Gabriel, such as the soundtrack to Birdy, and the musicians who've worked with him, such as Larry Fast SYNERGY and Robert Fripp (with King Crimson).
Most everything - especially soundtracks - by the electronic musical geniuses Tangerine Dream (except their early stuff).
Allan Holdsworth, U.K., Terry Bozzio and Frank Zappa (The Black Page!).
Thomas Dolby.
Zang Tuum Tumb (Trevor Horn) artists: The Art of Noise, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Propaganda and Act with Claudia Brücken.
Michael Hedges and Michael Manring, also Montreux.

the music is the drug and the need for additional substances is unnecessary

Other Music stuff

One of my relaxing hobbies is making music or other sounds in my studio on guitar, bass, or via samples triggered by MIDI drum pads. I also occasionally read various music-related and other mailing lists.

Outdoor Interests

My personal Photography and Activities page
Links I frequently visit to find out what is happening in the Seattle and Washington area

Programming Interests

Given the choice, I wouldn't use anything but NEXTSTEP/OpenStep as a development platform. Everything else - especially Windows - just takes all the fun out of creating software.

Since I do have the choice when developing software for use in my own studio (and for fun), I develop exclusively on a NeXTdimension by NeXT Computer, Inc. - but I wouldn't mind upgrading to a Hewlett Packard Precision Architecture RISC or a Sun SPARC laptop running OpenStep.

Where I work

Sound Consulting

Other Interests

Brian Willoughby <brianw@sounds.wa.com>