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Eric Singer and Taylor Kuffner

Eric Singer is a musician, artist, engineer and programmer and the founder of LEMUR. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon; a Diploma in Music Synthesis (Magna Cum Laude) from Berklee College of Music; and an MS in Computer Science from New York University. He has over 20 years of arts and multimedia programming, engineering and performance experience in the areas of interactive performance systems, integrated music and graphics systems, alternative controller design, networked multimedia environments, interface design, artificial intelligence and computer controlled pyrotechnics.

He has performed and lectured throughout the U.S. and Europe and is known internationally for his interactive software and hardware projects. www.ericsinger.com

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"Eric Singer and Taylor Kuffner." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/eric-singer-and-taylor-kuffner.

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Eric Singer is a musician, artist, engineer and programmer and the founder of LEMUR; he holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon, a Diploma in Music Synthesis (Magna Cum Laude) from Berklee College of Music, and an MS in Computer Science from New York University. He has over 20 years of arts and multimedia programming, engineering and performance experience in interactive performance systems, integrated music and graphics systems, alternative controller design, networked multimedia environments, interface design, artificial intelligence and computer controlled pyrotechnics; he has performed and lectured throughout the U.S. and Europe and is known internationally for his interactive software and hardware projects.

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