The Same As Last Week

Eric graduated from Cleveland State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree including a teaching certificate from the state of Ohio.  This was a very creative time in his life.  As a financial means to put himself through college, Eric pursued his interest in music and the studio arts at a professional level.  Playing nightly at parties and clubs, music allowed him to indulge his pursuit of a career in the arts.  He played continuously during this time in multiple bands in the Cleveland area and occasional venues out of state. 

As his musical career was nearing an end, there was more emphasis on the studio arts.  For example, his work was accepted to the Cleveland Museum of Arts "May Show" two times and was also exhibited at prestigious national juried exhibitions.  Eric continued his education at Eastern Michigan University where he earned a Master's of Fine Arts degree, with the intent to become an instructor of Studio Arts at the college level.  In the same time frame, Eric met his wife and was offered a position in his father's construction business who was retiring. 

He decided to choose the construction business rather than a sabbatical replacement position in Texas.  He reimagined the family business into a Home Building Company which provided an acceptable financial and creative lifestyle.  His beautiful wife provided him with two children who are living the American dream.  He Is the proud grandfather of two and is now living in Florida. 

Jeff Bloom grew up in Ohio and was in TSALW while he was at Case Western Reserve University (B.S. in Physics, 1970).  After graduating, having enjoyed being in TSALW, he formed another band and pursued writing and producing music.  However, in 1973, he accepted a fellowship from University College, Cardiff in Wales, moved to the UK and did research in Psychoacoustics, receiving a Ph.D. in Physics in 1977.

Following that, his interest grew in digital audio recording and processing, and he was invited to pursue research at the (now) University of Westminster in London. His work resulted in many published research papers, and he also developed and patented a computer method for automatically aligning the timing of one recorded voice with another, to lip-sync film actor’s re-recorded dialogue. This led to forming a company to develop commercial systems first used to lip-sync the dialogue in Dune and The Goonies. After the company was purchased, he also helped develop a touchscreen based digital audio workstation released in 1990.

Today, his subsequent company, Synchro Arts (founded 1994 and now part of LANDR Inc.), continues to develop audio editing software for the music, TV and film industries, and he has received a Technology & Engineering Emmy and a Technology & Scientific Academy Award and two Queen’s Awards.

Jeff now lives in Surrey, UK with his wife, Muriel, has two fabulous daughters from his first marriage and is finally taking piano lessons.