Goldstein & Technology
In 1985 he created the very first completely computer sequenced direct to digital score for Guber/Peters' oceanQuest. CBS Masterworks released the CD under the title OCEANSCAPE.
In 1987 he created the score for Sierra-on-line's KING'S QUEST FOUR, the first interactive computer game, and in the process was instrumental in developing the concept of the sound card for the computer.
He was in the office of Ken Williams, President of Sierra (outside Yosemite National Park) discussing the score, when he asked Williams. "So tell me, what's going to produce the sound of the music (at that time two or three note polyphony was the high end) as the computer plays back the MIDI information." Silence.
Goldstein thought a moment and picked up the phone and called Tom Beckman, then President of Roland Corporation US. He asked, "Tom, could you take the MT32 (Roland's stand alone inexpensive consumer sound module) and put it's guts on a card that would fit into a PC slot?" "If you do, I think you'll sell tons of them", said Goldstein. Beckman said yes. The rest is history.
He was one of the first serious Beta Testers and supporters of Greg Hendershott's Cakewalk, which has become the leading PC sequencer and audio recording software now known as Sonar. He also became one of the first Betas for the PC version of Finale, the leading notation software worldwide. On the hardware side he Beta'd DigiDesigns first Pro Tools for the PC side Session 8. 
His relationships over the years with Roland, Quantum and Yamaha led to his becoming instrumental in refining the Yamaha Disklavier piano, a concert instrument with a bi-directional computer interface.
Regardless of the technology, the bottom line for Mr. Goldstein is that technology like technique, is a means to a greater end, and never the end itself. "An emotional connection with an audience, elevating the human spirit, that's what it's all about."