music maker + new media artist / uses a lot of tech / writes for instruments too //// follow me on instagram [at]melodycodes for sketches and info about shows ~

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. Daniel is currently pursuing his MS in Computer Science and Health Informatics at Brooklyn College, where he works in Professor Johanna Devaney's Laboratory for Understanding Music and Audio (LUMaA) as a graduate research assistant, and as an adjunct lecturer in the music department teaching computer music. 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.

A singer/songwriter that plays steel pans, drums, percussion and keyboards. I am the co-founder and leader of the band Mr. Myers.

Dr. Aaron Ziegler is the Assistant Band Director/Percussion Instructor for Elder High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. As a percussionist, drummer, and pannist, Dr. Ziegler has performed throughout the midwest including the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Iowa and Ohio days of percussion. He has also performed internationally at the Percussive Arts Society International Conference 2011 & 2013, the Inaugural International Panorama Competition in Trinidad & Tobago in 2015,  served as the percussion adjudicator for the annual Hong Kong Schools Music Festival in Hong Kong, China in 2017 & 2021, and served as a guest artist at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand in 2020. Additionally, his article "Idiomatic Harmonic Arranging for Double Seconds & Triple Guitars" was published by the National Society of Steel Band Educators in 2018. Dr. Ziegler is a proud endorsor of Innovative Percussion sticks and mallets.

 www.AaronZieglerPercussion.com

Music Educator. Pan Enthusiast. Orff Methodist.

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