Genres Rock, Jazz Music groups MoeTar, miRthkon Name Matt Lebofsky | Years active ~1980–present | |
Occupation(s) Musician, Computer Scientist Associated acts Secret Chiefs 3, miRthkon, MoeTar, Bodies Floating Ashore, Midline Errors, The Fuxedos, Research & Development, Faun Fables, Fuzzy Cousins, Species Being, Mumble & Peg, JOB, Herb, Dropsy Role Instrumentalist · lebofsky.com Albums From These Small Seeds, The Illusion of Joy, Snack(S) Similar MoeTar, miRthkon, Secret Chiefs 3, Timba Harris, Trey Spruance | ||
Matt lebofsky on hacking your job and managing seti data
Matt Lebofsky is an Oakland, California-based multi-instrumentalist and composer. Growing up in New York he studied piano/composition with Arthur Cunningham from 1978-1988. As a performer/composer he is currently active in several bands such as miRthkon, MoeTar, Secret Chiefs 3, Bodies Floating Ashore, The Fuxedos, Three Piece Combo, Research & Development, Midline Errors, Fuzzy Cousins and JOB. He is also a long-time prolific member of the Immersion Composition Society Origin Lodge. He toured nationally in 2006 as a member of Faun Fables, and throughout 2000-2001 as a member of Species Being, and released three albums and toured internationally with Mumble & Peg from 1995-2002.
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 (located at the University of California at Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory) since 1997. He also works on the open-source general distributed computing engine BOINC, and designed levels for the iPhone video game Tap Tap Revenge.