
Daniel McKemie is a composer, researcher, and percussionist
based in New York City. He focuses on utilizing the internet and
browser technology to realize a more accessible platform for
multimedia art. His current work includes realizing historical
instruments, musical tools, and audio processing units in the
browser; and finding new ways of remote collaboration through
WebRTC, WebSockets, and shared networks. His music has been
performed in Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia; and his
research on computer music and web-based audio/composition
techniques have been presented or published internationally in
conferences as part of 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), 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.