Dr David Skulina - CEO, Technical Director

David Skulina is a physicist and musician with a PhD in musical acoustics. His ground breaking research into the effect of aeroacoustic energy losses on the playability of flutes and other wind instruments is really very interesting and a thoroughly good read.

Dr Benjaman Schogler - Creative Director, Business Development

Ben Schogler is a musician and psychologist. His research in music, psychology and education has always placed movement at the heart of things. When the funding from NESTA was finally secured in 2006, he packed in his lectureship in developmental psychology at the University of the West Indies, grabbed his bass and hopped on the first plane back to blighty.

Recent Publications:

Trevarthen, C., Delafield-Butt, J.T., & Schögler, B. (2009). The Psychobiology of Human Gesture: Form, rhythm, and melody in infants’ movements of narration. In Hatten (Ed.) Music and Gesture. London: Ashgate.

Schogler, B., Pepping, G-J. & Lee, D. N. (2008). TauG-guidance of transients in expressive musical performance.  Experimental Brain Research, 198, 361-372.

Schögler  B.W. (2008) Rhythmus – action time.  In Handicap, Education and Participation - Encyclopaedia of Special Education, Editors Otto Braun and Ulrike Lüdke.  Stuttgart (Germany): Kohlhammer

Lee, D. N., & Schogler, B. (2008). Tau in musical expression. In S. Malloch & C. Trevarthen (Eds.), Communicative Musicality: Narratives of Expressive Gesture and being Human. Oxford: Oxford U. P.

Shahbazi M., Schögler B., Sanders R. and Koenig F.  (2008) ISBS Conference 2008, July 14-18, Seoul, Korea - NINTENDO WII CONTRIBUTION TO SPORTS BIOMECHANICS: A PILOT STUDY OF PUSH-OFF KINEMATICS IN BREASTSTROKE SWIM TURN

Trevarthen C. and B. Schögler (2008) Musicality and the creation of meaning: Infant’s voices and jazz duets show us how, and not what, music means. For – Cross disciplinary Studies in Music and Meaning editors C. Grund and R. Hatten. Indiana University Press.

Lee, D. N. & Schogler, B. (2007). Movement, Music and Tau in Universal Harmony. In G. Kugiumutzakis (Ed.), Sympantiki Armonia, Mousike kai Epistimi. Ston Miki Theodoraki. (Universal Harmony, Music and Science: In Honour of Mikis Theodorakis.) Heraklion, Crete University Press.

Trevarthen C., & Schögler B. (2007) Dancing Minds. In Being Moved by Action-Perception, Music and Speech. Mirror neurons and the developmental bases of (pre) verbal intersubjectivity and clinical applications. Braten S. (Ed). Cambridge University Press.

Alister Minty - Company Chair

Alister Minty is an international man of mystery. All we know, is that he knows....

Keith Nagle - Software Engineer

Keith Nagle is a "recovering" musician, with an educational background in Software Design & Development and a recently completed MA in Sonic Arts at Queen's University, Belfast. He spent the last 6 years as an online facilitator for a distance learning MSc course in Software Engineering and Database Technologies, while moonlighting in pubs, clubs and hotels in various different rock bands in the west of Ireland. He joined Skoog at the end of July for a complete change of pace and to put years of theory into practice. When not writing code for Skoog, he spends his time (and most of his money) buying parts for his beloved 1977 VW Camper van.

Maggie Tam - Applications Developer

Maggie Tam is a musician with a background in music technology. Maggie is the star of some of our Skoog top tunes videos, and has been named as one of the first Skoog virtuosos by some very nice people. When she’s not busy coming up with new tunes on the Skoog, she is most definitely on air at the local hospital radio station desperately convincing her audience that Belle and Sebastian really are the best thing since sliced bread.