Daniel McKemie is a composer, percussionist, programmer, researcher, and arranger based in Oneonta, New York. His work focuses on applying techniques from Music Information Retrieval (MIR) feature extraction and low-level signal processing to explore timbre, integrating that data with original synthesis methods to create new musical works. Additionally, Daniel designs innovative methods for interfacing handmade circuitry, modular synthesizers, and embedded systems with both legacy and contemporary software. This approach enables the creation of complex, responsive performance environments, where software generates compositional processes as analog signals sent to hardware, and analyzes hardware feedback to influence musical behavior in real time.Daniel currently serves as a Lecturer at SUNY Oneonta, where he teaches courses on electronic music, audio arts, and music history. He earned his MS in Computer Science and Health Informatics at Brooklyn College, where he worked as a graduate research assistant in Professor Johanna Devaney's Laboratory for Understanding Music and Audio (LUMaA). He also served as an adjunct lecturer, teaching courses in computer music and programming.His music has been performed throughout Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia, and his research on computer music and web-based audio/composition techniques has been presented and published internationally at conferences including the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), the Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society (KEAMS), the Australasian Computer Music Association (ACMA), the International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR), the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), and the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC), among others.In addition to his work in electronic music, Daniel is an active percussionist, having premiered dozens of new works, many in collaboration with the William Winant Percussion Group. As an instrumental composer, he has written for soloists, chamber ensembles, mixed media projects, and radio broadcasts. He also served as an assistant transcriber and orchestrator for Roscoe Mitchell on pieces from his Conversations collection.Daniel has studied with Morton Subotnick, Roscoe Mitchell, William Winant, Dean Gronemeier, and Pauline Oliveros, and has collaborated with a wide range of artists and organizations, including the New York Deaf Theatre, Larry Polansky, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal-Toronto Art Orchestra, Funsch Dance Experience, Christian Wolff, Bob Ostertag, and Steve Schick. He also earned his MA in Music Composition from Mills College, and his BA in Music Performance from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
