Jeff Snyder - Composer / Improviser / Instrument Designer

Jeff Snyder (b.1978) is a composer, improviser and instrument-designer living in Princeton, New Jersey, and active in the New York City area.

He performs on analog modular synthesizer in duos with Sam Pluta and Eric Wubbels, and also leads a band as his electro-country alter ego Owen Lake.

He is currently an Associate Research Scholar in the Music Department at Princeton University, and the Associate Director of PLOrk, the Princeton Laptop Orchestra. In 2011, he received a doctorate with distinction in Music Composition from Columbia University.

In 2009, Jeff started a small business designing and manufacturing electronic musical instruments under the name Snyderphonics. The same year, he co-founded an experimental music record label with Sam Pluta and David Brynjar-Franzson called Carrier Records.