Gareth Loy started his musical life at the top - as a descant (higher than soprano!) - but it's been downhill ever since. While still a child, he gradually sank through soprano, alto and tenor, then slid abruptly to baritone when his voice cracked during adolescence, leaving him content to slum around in the bass section of FWI. When not disturbing people and wild animals with sub-sonic bass notes, he plays a wide variety of stringed instruments including lute, sitar, violin and miscellaneous unpronounceable oriental instruments, and performs in a classical guitar duet. An early computer music pioneer, Gareth has a Doctor of Musical Arts degree, or D.M.A., from Stanford. His computer music is published on Centaur and Wergo Records, and his two-volume book on the mathematics of music, entitled Musimathics, is published by MIT Press.