Colby Leider composes music, builds musical instruments, and teaches courses in music technology at the University of Miami. He has received prizes and honors from the American Composers Forum, the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges, Princeton University, the International Computer Music Association, and Dartmouth College. He has composed music for musicians including Arthur Campbell, the Nash Ensemble of London, Paul Hillier and the Theatre of Voices, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Bertram Turetzky, Gregory Beyer, and William Schimmel. Colby’s music is recorded on the Innova, ICMA, SEAMUS, Princeton, and everglade labels. His research interests include digital audio signal processing, sound synthesis and spatialization, tuning systems, and alternate controllers for music-making, and he has received research grants from the National Science Foundation and the University of Miami.
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. His book Digital Audio Workstation was published by McGraw-Hill in 2004.
Colby currently works as Associate Professor of Music Engineering at the University of Miami, and he serves as Associate Editor of Computer Music Journal. He also works as a consultant in patent-infringement cases involving audio and new media technologies and serves as President and Co-Founder of everglade records, a non-profit record label devoted to experimental music and acoustic documentary. He holds degrees from Princeton, Dartmouth, and the University of Texas, and he helps raise goats, chickens, a horse, ducks, turtles, orchids, hermit crabs, various vegetables, and two children in Redland, near the Florida Everglades.