Born and raised in upstate rural New York, Zuckerman has been an avid guitar player since the age of thirteen and has had an interest in music since his early childhood. Later in his life, he got minor jobs around music businesses such as shrink-wrapping CDs and eventually started working a gig at a mid-town Manhattan production studio. He graduated from the Berklee College of Music with an interest in sound design with new technologies and subsequently traveled to the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). There, he met Benjamin Wynn and earned his master's degree in Composition New Media. Zuckerman can play many instruments and frequently plays guitar for an LA funk band named Cousin Junebug.