Newby joined the research faculty in media arts at
Simon Fraser University, where he was a member of the Computational Poetics research group with
Aleksandra Dulic and Martin Gotfrit. At the
University of the Fraser Valley he was associate professor in media arts, where he studied creative forces in the field of computational art. Newby created performances and exhibits which integrated new media diffusion techniques and augmented reality systems, and he developed generative systems for the composition and performance of music and visual art. In the 1990s Newby released several solo albums, including
Ecology of Souls in 1993. He also collaborated on recordings with the groups Trance Mission and Lights in a Fat City. In 2004 Newby collaborated with the group Gamelan Madu Sari on their album of Javanese music,
New Nectar, and later contributed to their live performance installation, "Semar's Journey", in Vancouver. Newby also worked as an interactivity consultant for
Pixar Animation Studios, and as a sound artist and audio software developer at Electronic Arts. ==Discography==