Q:Facts: - years active: ~ 1980 -- present - genre: rock , jazz - notable instruments: guitar drums , bass guitar , vocals , keyboards , - name: matt lebofsky - background: solo_singer - website: http://lebofsky.com - associated acts: secret floating ashore , midline errors , the fuxedos , research chiefs & development , faun fables , fuzzy cousins , species 3 being , mumble & peg , job , herb , , dropsy mirthkon , moetar , bodies - occupation: musician , computer scientist Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of matt lebofsky .
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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 -lrb- located at the university of california at berkeley 's space sciences laboratory -rrb- 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 .