[1] His work focuses on the formal relations between electronic sounds and images, using synthesized visual and audio signals as his main medium.
[4][5] Snyder is also the founder of the sound department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in its present form,[6] where he was Professor Emeritus from 2016(?)
[13] While working with Sandin and DeFanti, Snyder met Phil Morton who at that time was teaching at the School of the Art Institute (SAIC) in Chicago.
[14] Together with the community of electronic media artists including Phil Morton, Dan Sandin, Tom DeFanti, Jane Veeder, Jamie Fenton, Barbara Sykes and others, Snyder participated in the Electronic Visualization Events (EVE) organized by the Circle Graphics Habitat—a series of group shows focusing on experimental media performance and image processing.
[15][16] The first iteration of EVE, held in April 1975, featured a collaborative performance by Snyder-Morton-Sandin-DeFanti called Peano Boogie, an improvised piece for which Snyder provided the soundtrack.
[13] The group performed again a year later at the second EVE, showing their interactive work Ryral,[13] for which Snyder used SAIC's EMU sound synthesizer.
[17] In the third event, which took place in May 1978, the group, joined by Jane Veeder, Sticks Raboin and Rylin Harris, performed a piece called Spiral 3.
[25] Shot in suburban Indiana, and unlike most of Snyder's work, Trim Subdivision has no sound,[26][11] and uses a wide range of editing techniques such as wipe-cuts in a playful deconstruction of site's uniform architecture.