[1] He attended the Rochester Institute of Technology and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California before serving in the army as a public information specialist in Stuttgart, Germany.

[3] Teibel returned from Europe in 1966 and settled in New York City where he worked a number of jobs including associate editor at Ziff Davis.

Working with neuropsychologist Lou Gerstman at Bell Labs, he processed a short ocean loop recorded at Brighton Beach through an IBM 360 computer to create one continuous thirty-minute soundscape.

[6] In 1970, Teibel created an environmental sound installation for the Museum of Contemporary Crafts,[7] and in 1971, he began teaching a class in experimental recording techniques at The New School.

[8] In 1973, to demonstrate how magnetic tape could be manipulated, Teibel edited Richard Nixon's August 15th speech to reveal that the president, in fact, had "prior knowledge" of the Watergate break-in.

"[9] They go on to explain the complicated place Teibel's work inhabits in the history of field recording and music: "Here was nature not as it is, but as we hope it'll be, the lullaby of waves without the sand in our trunks.

"[9] In February 2018, the Chicago reissue label Numero Group re-released Teibel's original recordings as an ambient sound app for iOS devices.