Keon Ju Maverick Lee / Leigh

Keon Ju Maverick Lee (he/him) is an electronic percussionist, drummer, music composer, and sound artist focusing on research-creation for designing a musical agent and interactive music systems to accompany drum performances. He has been active as a drummer in the local music scene in British Columbia, Canada. Currently, Keon is a Ph.D. candidate in the Metacreation lab for Creative AI at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is a lab instructor for the Sound Design course at SFU and computer music courses at the University of Victoria. As an academic, he publishes research-creation papers in music and AI. He is currently collaborating with researchers at the Centre for Digital Music in London, UK, and at IRCAM in Paris, France. Recently, he also collaborated with a Media Artist to get involved in the ReVerie project performed at Ars Electronica Deep Space 8K in 2024.