Thomas L. Beyer, a technologist, educator, engineer, composer, instrument builder and percussionist, studied Classical Percussion, with Paul Price, and Twentieth Century Composers at Manhattan School of Music in the late 60s, and continued Jazz and Ethnic music studies with percussion masters, Fredrick Waits, Eddie Blackwell, Jack DeJohnette, Billy Hart and Guillermo Franco. He received his Masters of Composition from NYU, studying with Dinu Ghezzo and Justin Dello Joio. He continues his lifelong quest for knowledge to gain a mastery of how to produce, control and capture sounds.

Tom has taught since an early age and joined the adjunct faculty at New York University in 1999, where he currently is also the Chief Systems Engineer for the Music Technology Program and the Network Administrator for the Department of Music &Performing Arts Professions. In these capacities he has been technical director for over 70 interactive multimedia productions as well as numerous festivals including NIME, and the bi-annual NYU Music Technology Interactive Arts Festival. Recently he oversaw the design and construction of the $6.8 million dollar high tech complex for sound engineering, computer music, audio-visual production and post-production, mastering, scoring for film and multimedia, audio for games, software development, and multimedia production, which was praised by Mix Magazine as “one of the most technically advanced audio teaching facilities in the United States.”