Doug Wyatt, an expert with both technology and music, is a skilled and humble artist who composes a kind of ethereal, swirling electronic music you would hear at a concert hall, the kind of sounds that decorate a space and make it special.

Doug is currently working on an as–yet–untitled new CD to be released in the fall of 2005. In an interesting low–tech turn for an artist who has worked so long with digital music, the album will be recorded in Sweden on analog tape, requiring pounds of tape to be sent overseas. With this album, he hopes to find his own mix of organic and synthetic sounds, with themes and songs that swirl together throughout the album like a movie soundtrack.

After a love affair with piano starting at age five, Doug’s interest in electronic music was sparked at age 16, when he was listening to a lot of music that used synthesizers. He borrowed one from a friend and it “triggered his imagination,” he says, so in 1979, he bought a kit and built his own.

Things started to take off when he wrote a program he sent to Opcode Systems, Inc. and landed a job with the company. It was there that he made a major breakthrough, creating the essential Open Music System (OMS) which allowed MIDI synthesizers and various computer applications to work together. OMS was described as “the Rosetta Stone of computer music” because of its pivotal role in uniting MIDI synthesizers and computer software applications.

Doug later headed into uncharted territory with his own music, getting deeply into recording his own sounds and improvisations. Around December 1997, he started to work on what would later be material for his first solo CD, "Accidental Beauties." Anil Prasad of Innerviews described it as “a fine debut effort full of atmosphere, intrigue and emotion. Recommended for anyone wishing to hear an exciting, creative and passionate new voice in the electronic music sphere.”