Colby Leider is an assistant professor of music media and industry and teaches in the music engineering technology program. Leider has a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering with a concentration in communication from The University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Arts degree in electro-acoustic music from Dartmouth College. He will complete the Doctor of Philosophy degree in music composition from Princeton University in December 2002. He has prior teaching experience at Florida International University. A composer, inventor, theorist, and consultant, Leider has numerous publications in journals and his compositions have been performed around the world. He is a holder of a provisional patent for a hand-held device capable of distributing, routing, and spatializing an arbitrary number of channels of digital audio into an arbitrary number of loudspeakers in real time. He has also been a software consultant.

email: cleider@miami.edu