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
The Rockefeller Foundation is an American private foundation and philanthropic medical research and arts funding organization based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The second-oldest major philanthropic institution in America, after the Ca ...
, the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), the Greenwall Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, Arts International and
Harvestworks
Harvestworks is a not-for-profit arts organization located in New York City. It was founded in 1977 by artists supporting the creation and presentation of art works achieved through the use of new technologies. The Harvestworks TEAM Lab (Technology ...
Digital Media Arts Center.
Other LEMUR members included
Jeff Feddersen
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,
Milena Iossifova
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,
Bil Bowen
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* Bil Baird (1904–1987), American puppeteer
* Bil Dwyer (1907-1987), American cartoonist and humorist
* Bil Dwyer (born 1962) ...
,
R. Luke DuBois
Roger Luke DuBois (born 10 September 1975) is an American composer, performer, conceptual new media artist, programmer, record producer and pedagogue based in New York City.
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,
Leif Krinkle
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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, Brendan J. FitzGerald, Chad Redmon, Kate Chapman and
Marius Schebella
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* Gaius Marius (157 BC-86 BC), Roman statesman, seven times consul.
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* ''Marius'' (play), a 1929 play by Marcel Pagnol
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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 violi ...
, 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