Turing Machine is an American

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band formed in

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, United States, in 1998 by Justin Chearno and Scott DeSimon, late of DC's noise-rockers

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and Gerhardt 'Jerry' Fuchs, who had moved to New York to play with

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guitarist Jon Fine's new band, Vineland. Their music has been described as "Angular instrumental indie rock," that has "influences as vast as vintage prog, Krautrock and post-punk." On November 7, 2009, drummer Fuchs died in an elevator shaft accident. The last of Fuchs' studio work with Turing Machine was included posthumously in the 2012 album, ''What Is The Meaning of What''. Some of the friends of the band such as Pat Mahoney of

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and

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helped to complete the unfinished album after Fuchs' death. The name comes from the mathematical model of computation defined by

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with the same name (

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Discography

* ''A New Machine for Living'' (2000) * ''Juncture'' (2003, appears on) * ''Zwei'' (2004) * ''What Is The Meaning of What'' (2012)

References

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