Music
October 22nd
I was listening to the introduction for a new edition ( fan based ) to the Sierra QUEST FOR GLORY series today, and I wanted to know how the composer ( Derek von Krogh if memory serves ) Got such an amazing sound out of Synthesised instruments.  The answer ? SOUNDFONTS.  Amazing little things.  However it's hard to find exactly what you want.  And so I'm going to make my own ( handy being in a family of musicians ).  In any event, I sat down and experimented today in Cubase ( Which I have never used before, so that too was a nice experience ).  And I created a piece which I like to call 'Act 1' ( For reasons that are obvious to me when I hear it ).  Comments would be greatly appreciated, and you can get it here. 
a|A - Act 1 ( 2.47 mb )
Ps - I am well aware of the few mixing troubles in it, and the distortion at one or two points, I didn't spend hours mixing it, I just wanted to put something up for you all to hear.

I've been interested in music for as long as I can remember, and thanks to some friends from my school I started writing electronic music with a program called buzz in late year 11.  This continued throughout my school career, During this time I got some of my music played on a local radio station ( 4zzz ), as well as took part in a giant group collaboration project called UoD ( Universe of Discourse ). 

http://www.mp3.com/tomgupper - The Unique home of my most popular piece 'Doctor Who theme [ Candyman mix ]'
http://www.mp3.com.au/a|A - The home of the rest of my publically released pieces.
http://uod.cjb.net - The home of UoD.