Arun Chandra, born 1954 in Allahbad, India, raised in the United States, completed his DMA in Music Composition at the University of Illinois (Urbana/Champaign), where his primary teachers were Herbert Brün, Alexander Ringer, and Ben Johnston. (Others who have had a strong influence on his compositions and thinking include Kenneth Gaburo, Heinz von Forester, and Humberto Maturana.) He studied guitar with Alvaro Company in Florence, Italy and with Allain LeBellac in Fountainbleau, France, and studied conducting with Michael Gielen at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. From 1980-92 he toured extensively in the United States and Europe with the Performers' Workshop Ensemble, and shared with them a 6-month residency at the ``Hochschule für Musik'' in Kassel, West Germany. For three years he worked at Wolfram Research, Inc., where he designed and wrote the Music and Audio packages for Mathematica 2.x. He was Associate Professor of Music Composition at the Institute for Applied Arts, Hsinchu, Taiwan, where he directed the computer music studio, and conducted the orchestra, in addition to teaching composition and theory. His compositions have been performed at numerous international and national conferences and festivals, as well as on the radio in the U.S., Europe, Australia, and Japan. He has given numerous presentations of his research and compositions at conferences and symposia in Europe, the United States, and Asia. He lives in Urbana, Illinois, and continues his experiments in sound synthesis and composition.