Professional and Community Activities: Blackburn is an associate professor of music at The University of Tampa, where he serves as department chair, directs the music technology and composition program, and coordinates the music theory program for the Department of Music. Blackburn has composed over works in a variety of media including music for dance, acoustic concert music, jazz and popular music, music for film and interactive computer music. His compositions have been selected for performance at peer-reviewed national conferences such as the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, the Electronic Music Midwest festival and Electroacoustic Barn Dance.