Colby Leider
Assistant Professor - Music Engineering
cleider@miami.edu
Website: colby.music.miami.edu
Phone: 305-284-8221
Fax: 305-284-6475

Colby Leider is an assistant professor of music engineering at the University of Miami Frost School of Music. Leider holds degrees in electrical engineering and music composition from the University of Texas at Austin, Dartmouth College, and Princeton University.

At the University of Miami, Colby teaches courses in audio electronics, transducer theory, digital audio signal processing, musician-machine interaction design, audio circuits, and audio production for musicians.

Colby’s research interests include digital audio signal processing, sound synthesis and spatialization, and alternate controllers for music-making. Colby’s book Digital Audio Workstation was published by McGraw-Hill in 2004. He also serves as Associate Editor for Computer Music Journal, published by the MIT Press.

Colby chaired the 30th Annual International Computer Music Conference at the University of Miami during November 1–6. The conference brought over 300 members of the international computer music community to Miami for a week of paper sessions, demonstrations, poster sessions, and 20 concerts.

As a composer, Colby has received prizes and honors from the International Computer Music Association (commission, 2002), the American Composers Forum Sonic Circuits program (1998, 2002–2003), the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges (Prix Résidence, 2000), and Princeton University (Perkins Prize, 1998; Naumberg Fellowship, 1998–2004). He has written music for the Nash Ensemble of London, Paul Hillier and the Theatre of Voices, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, contrabassist Bertram Turetzky, percussionist Gregory Beyer, and accordionist William Schimmel. Colby's music is recorded on Innova, ICMA, SEAMUS, and UF labels, and he recently founded a non-profit arts/technology organization and recording label with wife Kristine H. Burns called everglade.