The League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots, or LEMUR, was a Brooklyn-based group of artists and technologists developing robotic musical instruments. Founded in 2000 by musician and engineer Eric Singer, LEMUR's philosophy was to build robotic instruments that play themselves. In LEMUR designs, the robots are the instruments.
LEMUR was supported in part by grants from the
Rockefeller Foundation
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, the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), the Greenwall Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, Arts International and
Harvestworks
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Digital Media Arts Center.
Other LEMUR members included
Jeff Feddersen,
Milena Iossifova,
Bil Bowen,
R. Luke DuBois
Roger Luke DuBois (born 10 September 1975) is an American composer, performer, conceptual art, conceptual new media artist, programmer, record producer and Pedagogy, pedagogue based in New York City.
Early life
DuBois was born in Morristown, Ne ...
,
Leif Krinkle,
Roberto Osorio-Goenaga
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,
Bob Huott
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, Ajay Kapur,
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, Kevin Larke, David Bianciardi, Michelle Cherian,
Michael Hearst
Michael Marcus Hearst (born December 27, 1972) is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, writer, and producer. He is best known for his solo albums ''Songs For Ice Cream Trucks'', ''Songs For Unusual Creatures'', ''Songs For Fearful Flyers'', ''Songs ...
, Brendan J. FitzGerald, Chad Redmon, Kate Chapman and
Marius Schebella
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. LEMUR composers included Joshua Fried,
Mari Kimura
(; born 1962) is a Japanese violinist and composer best known for her use of subharmonics, which, achieved through special bowing techniques, allow pitches below the instrument's normal range. She is credited with "introducing" the use of violin ...
, Brendan Adamson, and Lee Ranaldo and
They Might Be Giants
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.
LEMUR Instruments
Guitarbot
modBots
External links
lemurbots.org
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Music organizations based in the United States
Rockefeller Foundation