MUSIC

After finishing High School my ambition was to become a professional Audio Engineer. At the time

there were no college schooling for this. So, I joined up with a band called OCEAN as their sound

man. With OCEAN, more time was actually spent on making demo tapes than live performances.

Eventually, this lead to the OCEAN tape which I distributed thru a couple of local music stores.

After a number of years as a sound engineer for local bands, such as Ocean, Apocalypes, Paradox

( about 4 different variations), Cool Water Country, Rusty Buddie Band, Calico, Fire Escape, Sound

Advice, Epitath, Five Below Zero and a couple of others whose names I've forgotten, I started getting

interested in synthesizers and MIDI. Actually, my first synth was a KORG Poly-61 and did not have

MIDI. It was about a month or two after purchacing the KORG that ROLAND came out with a synth

with MIDI. It was a few more months after that did the YAMAHA DX-7 come out. I was one of the

first people in Houston to utilize MIDI in music production.

In 1990 I meet a MIDI musicain named James Reyna on a BBS chat board. He was already working

with another MIDI musician, Kevin Palmer. (Kevin's MP3.com site.) Along the lines of the Phase II

project I did a couple of years earlier ( Sir Robin and Carlos Flores), the three of us were going to

produce a synthpop album and tracks were recorded in my project studio. But Kevin decided to quit

the project. James and myself were not producing vocal tracks of sufficient quality to make the project

viable, IMHO. ( One of the songes we were working on "Perfect Picture" can be found HERE.) So the

tracks already recorded were abandoned. A few months later, with vacation time available, I called up

James and suggested we continue with a non-vocal album. Thus, NOVOX was born. The NOVOX CD

was self-produced at my home studio. It is an all digital MIDI>Synth>DAT production. At one time it

was available at over 20 record stores in the Houston area. But, this project did not take off. About that

time the Video Toaster came out and my interest turned to 3D Computer Animation and video. Except

for a few sound tracks for my class reunion video, I have not done much with audio and music the past

few years, well not directly........

Currently, music from the NOVOX album can be heard on MP3.com under the name of

"The NOVOX Project". James is now working under the name SynthDog. Re-mixes of NOVOX tunes

by SynthDog can be found on the "The NOVOX Project" page. Non-streaming Real Audio tracks from

"Negative Silence" can be found here:

If you enjoy the Real Audio track excerpts from the NOVOX CD, it is available

for purchace: $12.00 + $2.00 S/H for CD and $8.00 + $2.00 S/H for cassette.

E-mail me or order from:

    ARARAT Productions
    10100 Clay Road
    Suite G
    Houston, Texas 77080