Zemi17 (or the human known as Aaron Taylor Kuffner), is a composer, musician, and media artist. In the 1990s, Zemi17 brought his studies in new physics, technology, mixed media installation and experimental performance into the underground art scenes of New Orleans and San Francisco. In 1997, he moved to New York and formed the experimental multi-media performance group Ransom Corp. This group hosted events and performed in warehouses, on boats, subways and streets throughout New York and Europe. Kuffner founded the 23 Windows Collective community arts studio in Brooklyn in 2001 and co-created and curated The Resonant Wave Experimental Multi Media Art Festival in Berlin in 2002. He was a guest composer at Theater Thikwa for mentally disabled adults in Berlin in 2003.

From 2004 through 2006, he lived and worked in Indonesia with the support of scholarships and grants from the Indonesian Foreign Ministry. He collected extensive field recordings of nature and researched classic gamelan music, performing with professional groups in Yogyakarta and Bali. His study focused on two archaic forms of gamelan: Sekatan from the courts of Central Java and Selonding from the Bali Highlands. His audio recordings and notation in System Notasi Nusantara were compiled into a summary report for the Indonesian Dharmasiswa Council for the propagation of Indonesian Arts.

For the last three years Kuffner has concentrated on synthesizing his knowledge and experience with new compositional and technological forms. He is the co-creator, composer and art director of the Gamelatron. He regularly composes for dance, theater and multi-media productions, owns and operates a 15kw sound system and performs with the experimental music groups Zero Gravity Thinkers and The Akashic Currency Bureau (ACB). http://zemi17.net

LEMUR is a Brooklyn-based group of artists and technologists developing robotic musical instruments. Founded in 2000 by musician and engineer Eric Singer, LEMUR creates exotic, sculptural musical instruments and installations which integrate robotic technology.
http://lemurbots.org

Eric Singer, LEMUR Founder and Executive and Artistic Director
Musician, artist, engineer and programmer Eric Singer 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 performs and lectures throughout the world and is known internationally for his software and hardware products for art and technology.

An accomplished musician, Singer has toured and recorded with many bands on tenor, alto and baritone saxes. He is also a founding member of the Brooklyn-based arts collaborative The Madagascar Institute and has contributed to many of the group's spectacular projects. As captain of the Madagascar Institute's Brooklyn Benders, he led the team to the semi-finals on The Learning Channel's Junkyard Wars television show. In addition to directing LEMUR, Singer works as an independent Arts Engineer and Consultant; runs Eroktronix, his company which creates and markets electronics technology for the arts; and has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the NYU Interactive Telecommunication Program.
http://ericsinger.com