Matt Lebofsky is an Oakland, California based multi-instrumentalist and composer. Growing up in New York he studied piano/composition with Arthur Cunningham

Arthur Cunningham

Arthur Cunningham was an American composer.-Biography:Cunningham began writing music at the age of 12 to be performed with his jazz band. He attended Fisk University , Juilliard, and Columbia University's Teachers College, attaining his Master's in 1957...

 from 1978-1988. As a performer/composer he is currently active in several bands such as miRthkon, MoeTar

MoeTar

MoeTar is a Bay Area, California based rock group founded by singer Moorea Dickason and bassist Tarik Ragab . Moorea and Tarik previously worked together in the more politically charged funk/pop band .-History:...

, Secret Chiefs 3

Secret Chiefs 3

Secret Chiefs 3 is an instrumental rock group led by guitarist/composer Trey Spruance . Their studio recordings and tours have featured different line-ups, as the group performs a wide range of musical styles including surf rock, Persian, Arab, Indian, death metal, film music, electronic music,...

, Three Piece Combo, Research & Development, Midline Errors, Fuzzy Cousins and JOB. He is also a long-time prolific member of the Immersion Composition Society

Immersion Composition Society

The Immersion Composition Society is an underground network of composers, organized into independent groups, called lodges, who periodically spend one or more days composing unusually large volumes of music for the purpose of creating raw material for their new projects. There are several dozen...

 Origin Lodge. He toured nationally in 2006 as a member of Faun Fables

Faun Fables

Faun Fables is a band from Oakland, California. Faun Fables is a concept and vehicle for Dawn McCarthy, who was inspired to write the original material while traveling after leaving the New York City music scene in 1997. Faun Fables also covers both 20th century compositions by other song writers...

, and throughout 2000-2001 as a member of Species Being

Species Being

Species Being was an improv/experimental rock band located in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1997 to 2002. This band is considered one of the forefathers of improv progressive music.- Members :...

, and released three albums and toured internationally with Mumble & Peg from 1995-2002. As well he wrote all the code and launched Free Music Guy in 2008 as a repository for many of his recorded works, all of which are freely available.

Matt is also a computer programmer, webmaster, and database/systems administrator, and has been a core member of the small staff developing/maintaining the world's largest distributed computing project SETI@home

SETI@home

SETI@home is an Internet-based public volunteer computing project employing the BOINC software platform, hosted by the Space Sciences Laboratory, at the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States. SETI is an acronym for the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence...

 (located at the University of California at Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory

Space Sciences Laboratory

The Space Sciences Laboratory is an Organized Research Unit of the University of California, Berkeley. It is located in the Berkeley Hills above the university campus...

) since 1997. He also works on the open-source general distributed computing engine BOINC.