Madalyn Merkey is a composer and performer of live computer music based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her recent work draws on the principles of acoustic instruments and material spaces, designing real-time sound synthesis programs for site-specific performance.

She is currently on staff at CCRMA and was previously the host of Piano on KPFA.

In 2015, Merkey translated the pioneering electronic music text Due scuole di musica elettronica in Italia (1968) by composer Enore Zaffiri (b. Turin, 1928) from Italian to English. She first realized the audio components of Zaffiri’s work at Mills College in 2014 as part of her MFA thesis in Electronic Music, and later conducted additional research at the Conservatorio di Musica Luigi Cherubini in Florence, Italy.