Another decent (and FREE) MIDI player from Thomas Dolby (?!) that works as a plug-in in Netscape (Mac and PC) and Explorer (PC only) is Beatnik. It's available at:

To be honest, a lot of the MIDI players I've heard on PCs suck (unless you've got an expensive soundcard). There are alternatives. The next best thing to the Yamaha plug-in above that I've heard is Apple's QuickTime, available for both Macs and PCs at:

http://www.apple.com/quicktime

To hear some of my other original MIDI files, click on the links below.

• Intelligent Artifice - If Genuine Stupidity is in such abundance, what is the difficulty with Artificial Intelligence? This music was inspired by a banging piece of metal I heard as I was bicycling home from work one afternoon. Originally titled "What If?" because I wondered as I listened to this piece: What if Danny Elfman conspired with Jean-Michel Jarre to mix Friday the 13th with the X-Files and Inna-Gadda-da-Vida? What if Miles came back and took some XTC while listening? What if a little kid with a keyboard were allowed to fill in the gaps? What if?!
• A Big Mess of Timelessness - A plethora of percussive instruments played by the 'puter in a pulse of polyrhythmic patterns as per my precise placement of preferred parameters.
• The Shock! - At 1:47 AM on 9/21/99, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 hit Taiwan. I was there, and I survived, but over 2,300 others didn't. Several weeks later, we were still experiencing aftershocks of up to 6.9. It made quite a mark on me. Composing this saxophone quartet was my post-trauma therapy.
• Punk Without A Cause - Originally written with the lyrics: "I love the smell of chemicals, in concentrated form, My brain is dead, my eyes are red, hey isn't that the norm?" Hahaha! MIDI has again expanded my ability to create. Not just punk, it contains a little bit of ska, a dash of fusion, and various influences from other realms. You can also obtain a Zen-like state by clicking the button near the top of the page -- really!
• Light Blue Dream - Mystical Asian minimalism -- the "sequel" to the piece below. MIDI file added 7/7/99. Equally good with MIDPlug or QuickTime. Not nearly as good in Beatnik! (greatly reduced stereo, chintzy koto, harmonica-like cello...)
• Piano Concerto 1999 - a ten and a half-minute musical 'chiaroscuro' inspired by a true tale of forbidden love that eventually had a happy ending -- she left me, and I found someone much better for me. The "prequel" to the piece above.

• Antediluvian Postlude - electric jazz/blues -- the "prequel" to the piece below. Graphics updated 6/23/99
• Postdiluvian Prelude - short symphonic angst. Tympanies inaudible in Beatnik!
• Somebody Kill that MOFO! - At first, this was a stereo experiment with drums, gunshots, and a ringing telephone, but it went a little out of control. This was the result. Classical-punk? MIDI file revised 6/28/99; page graphics revised 6/16/99. Warning: Gunshots barely-to-completely inaudible in Beatnik!
• Broken Glass - Glass-ian freneticism. Board race music for classroom situations. I liked the music Philip Glass wrote for Koyaanisqatsi, but the tempo was too irregular for the purpose I had in mind, so I wrote this. MIDI file revised 7/29/99 -- new drums! Revised once more 8/21/99 -- reduced number of "pitch bend" events which caused some MIDI players to "get stuck"
• The Pyramids of Mars - Imagine a stoned Beethoven hunched over a Casio toy keyboard (well, a very expensive one! This was actually composed on a Casio SK-1!) pondering the images that have been beamed back from space in this century. Don't know what happened to the "portamento" effect. Can you hear it in MIDPlug? Can anybody tell me why I can't hear it or how to fix this problem?
• Buddha Is My Bruddah - a student of mine once wrote that she liked "Buddhist and pop music." I had a revelation: "Buddhist-Pop music!" I took the well-known "Ah mi tuo fo" Buddhist chant and mixed in the melody of Taiwan pop star Chang Hui-Mei(A-Mei)'s "Sister" ("Jie3 mei4" to you readers of Pinyin). Voilà -- Buddhist Pop!