Daniel McKemie is a composer, percussionist, electronic
musician, researcher, and arranger based in New York City. His
current work includes using techniques rooted in Music
Information Retrieval in analyzing the nature of timbre and
using such data in creative settings. He also focuses on
utilizing the internet and browser technology to realize a more
accessible platform for multimedia art. Daniel is currently
pursuing his MS in Computer Science and Health Informatics at
Brooklyn College, where he works in Professor Johanna Devaney's
Laboaratory for Music and Audio Understanding (LUMAA) as a
graduate assistant. His music has been performed in Europe,
Asia, South America, and Australia; and his research on computer
music and web-based audio/composition techniques has been
presented and published internationally in conferences such as
the Korean Electro-acoustic Music Society, the Australasian
Computer Music Association, the International Symposium on
Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research, the Society of
Electro-acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), and
Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC), among
others.
Daniel also develops new ways of interfacing handmade circuitry,
modular synthesizers, and embedded systems to various softwares
both new and old. This recent work has allowed for complex,
interactive performance environments to emerge, in which
software generates compositional processes and actions in the
form of analog signals sent to the hardware, and software that
can analyze said signals from the hardware to determine musical
behaviors.
In addition to electronic music, Daniel is an active percussionist, having premiered dozens of new works for the repertoire, including many with The William Winant Percussion Group. Active as an instrumental composer, he has written for solo, chamber, mixed media, and radio broadcast formats, and also served as an assistant transcriber and orchestrator for Roscoe Mitchell on pieces from his Conversations collection.
His teachers have included Morton Subotnick, Roscoe Mitchell, William Winant, and Pauline Oliveros; and has provided music for and worked with a number of different artists and companies in various capacities including: The New York Deaf Theatre, Larry Polansky, Funsch Dance Experience, Ryan Ross Smith, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, The Montreal-Toronto Art Orchestra, Christian Wolff, Bob Ostertag, and Steve Schick.