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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Features Eric Singer and his Musical Robots
Eric Singer’s robotic device proves a mechanical and musical success
Monday, February 22, 2010
By Marty Levine, Special to the Post-Gazette
The Pied Piper of musical robots has led his mechanical children to Pittsburgh.
Eric Singer spent the past 10 years running the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots in Brooklyn, attracting high-tech collaborators, including They Might Be Giants, while making musical instruments out of plastic fish, flamethrowers and toy slime in his spare time.
Now his workshop is a Squirrel Hill basement, where Singer’s latest GuitarBot is under construction. Two other computer-driven guitars are currently on a world tour with Pat Metheny, alongside a software-run marimba, vibraphone, orchestra bells and other percussion instruments — 40 in all — that Singer mechanized for the jazz guitarist’s latest album.
The 1988 Carnegie Mellon University grad moved his wife, young daughter and in-laws here in August, and he has hooked up with local roboticists and musicians.
