Sound Builders: Eric Singer Turns Scrap Metal Into Human-Besting Robot Bands

Posted by Motherboard on Monday, Apr 19, 2010

In Episode 3 of Sound Builders, we travel to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to visit the basement of Eric Singer, founder of LEMUR (League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots).

Despite receiving his music degree from Phil Collins, Eric has gone on to create incredibly innovative music robots that have been used by the likes of Pat Metheny and Mari Kimura. A founding member of the Brooklyn-based arts collaborative The Madagascar Institute (previously profiled in a Motherboard video), Eric has made music out of fire, balls of slime, along with a slew of other unlikely materials. In this episode Eric takes us on a tour of the LEMUR workshop and explains how it came to be.

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1up 4 months ago

He reminds me of a musical version of Stelarc.
manheim 4 months ago

I love phil collins.
EON_ION 4 months ago

Dramatic LEMUR.
ZingYoo 4 months ago

Wow, that is truly incredible Ying www.vpn-privacy.us.tc
Orion 4 months ago

Pittsburgh is perfect for this guy. He and Warhol would have been buddies I feel.
TheRealChipChester 4 months ago

The bleached mop is one thing, but the eyebrows? You know the guy's serious about self expression when he'll risk his own eyesight to highlight his forehead hair.
NightTerror 4 months ago

I agree....the one thought that kept running through my mind while I was watching this was damn, He really took the time to bleach his eyebrows.
NightTerror 4 months ago

This kinda of stuff was the reason I went to the Science Museum as a child
QueenofRowdy 4 months ago

such awesome robotic sounds that come from these instruments
cars 4 months ago

Haha, he was pissed about phil collins