This new version (November 2009) is extremely easy to use as everything is compiled into a single exe file.

The music
For this CD-Rom I have orchestrated the music and played it through a multi-timbral synthesiser (Yamaha SY77) which incorporates sampled instruments. I have used a wide palette of instruments to provide variety, a number of horns (french horn, flugel horn, trumpets), woodwind (oboe, clarinet, bassoon, flute), harp, harpsichord, and some strings, organs and orchestral sounds. I have avoided any modern entirely synthetic sounds as well as the piano. The general sound can be likened to an early music group, but of course with no pretentions to authenticity. Purists will of course deplore my approach, but I hope it might make some of the music much more accessible. In working with these 'fugues' I have found many of them to be enjoyable and memorable pieces of music.
The 50 musical pieces are two-part canons over a cantus firmus base. The first voice, which always appears on the right stereo channel, is the fleeing Atalanta. She is pursued by the second voice, Hippomenes, following a short interval later, which I have mapped to the left channel. The three golden apples, the base, is in the centre of the stereo space. I have used no particular system for choosing the instruments to play each 'fugue', and this entirely reflects my own taste and judgement. The output from the synthesiser has been 'fattened' or enriched by using stereo chorus, and is further run through the effects processor to provide a simulation of the reverberation experienced in a preformance space. People with a trained musical ear probably detest this, but I find it does enrich the sound of the three instruments.