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Gareth Loy
Dr. Gareth Loy is an American author, composer, musician and mathematician. Loy is the author of the two volume series on the intersection of music and mathematics titled ''Musimathics''.〔()〕 Loy was an early practitioner of music synthesis at Stanford, and wrote the first software compiler for the Systems Concepts Digital Synthesizer (Samson Box). More recently, Loy has published the freeware music programming language ''Musimat'', designed specifically for subjects covered in ''Musimathics'', available as a free download. Although Musimathics was first published in 2006 and 2007, the series continues to evolve with updates by the author and publishers, and the texts are being used in numerous math and music classes at both the graduate and undergraduate level, with more current reviews noting that the originally targeted academic distribution is now reaching a much wider audience. Music synthesis pioneer Max Mathews stated that Loy's books are a "guided tour-de-force of the mathematics of physics and music... Loy has always been a brilliantly clear writer. In ''Musimathics'', he is also an encyclopedic writer. He covers everything needed to understand existing music and musical instruments, or to create new music or new instruments... Loy's book and John R. Pierce's famous ''The Science of Musical Sound'' belong on everyone's bookshelf, and the rest of the shelf can be empty."〔Musimathics, V. I, Foreword, p. xv ISBN 0-262-12282-0〕 John Chowning states, in regard to Nekyia and the Samson Box, "After completing the (Samson Box) software, Loy composed Nekyia, a beautiful and powerful composition in four channels that fully exploited the capabilities of the Samson Box. As an integral part of the (original Stanford) community, Loy has paid back many times over all that he learned, by conceiving the (Samson) system with maximal generality such that it could be used for research projects in psychoacoustics as well as for hundreds of compositions by a host of composers having diverse compositional strategies."〔Musimathics, V. II, p xii, ISBN 978-0-262-12285-6〕
==Biographical background==
Dr. Gareth Loy was born in Los Angeles in 1945. He was an early employee at Apple Computer, and is the brother of the late Dr. Tom Loy, a renowned molecular archaeologist, and member of the team that researched Oetzi the Iceman.
In the 1960s and 1970s, CCRMA – the Center for Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University – which was then a research project at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL), developed fundamental technologies later used extensively in the digital synthesizer and digital audio industries. Dr. Loy was a grad student at CCRMA in the mid-70s, and wrote the compiler software for the original Samson Box, which was the original and most powerful and complex digital synthesizer/processor of the day. Since Dr. Loy is both a mathematician and a composer, in addition to the mathematics, engineering and software code for the Samson Box, Loy also composed Nekyia, a dynamic and powerful four channel composition, to fully demonstrate the capabilities of the Samson Box. Nekyia still stands today as a landmark in digital composition, and maintains its power despite the advances in synthesizer technology since then. Loy received his B.A. from San Francisco State University in 1975 and his DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) from Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and CCRMA, in Computer Science, Signal Processing and Digital Music Composition in 1980. Gareth lives with his wife Lisa in San Rafael, California.
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