Peter Hulen
Associate Professor of Music Emeritus
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Peter Lucas Hulen came home to the liberal arts when he arrived at Wabash in 2004, after teaching at other types of institutions at home and abroad. He is a composer with a focus on generating musical sound with computers, alone or in combination with other instruments. His musical background is diverse, encompassing not only his areas of expertise in composition, computer music and music theory, but also instrumental and choral conducting, and symphonic, jazz and choral performance. While at Wabash he developed new courses in electronic music history and literature, digital sound synthesis, and electronic music performance. He retired in 2018.
Hulen discusses the roots of electronic music at Wabash College, the creative process,and the new electronic music minor. Electronic musics samples are also featured.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Music Composition, Michigan State University
Intermediate Certificate, Beijing International Studies University
M.M. in Composition, Southwestern Theological Seminary
B.M. in Composition, University of Tulsa
RECENT COURSE OFFERINGS
MUS 107 Fundamentals of Music
MUS 151 Brass Ensemble & 157 Woodwind Ensemble
MUS 201, 301 & 302 Music Theory I, II & III
MUS 221 Introduction to Electronic Music
MUS 222 Electronic Music History & Lit
MUS 223/CSC 171 Digital Sound Synthesis
MUS 287/288 Independent Study (Composition / Electronic Music)
MUS 288 Electronic Device Ensemble
MUS 297/298 Electronic Music Projects
MUS 387/388 Composition
MUS 401 Senior Seminar
FRT Evolution of Electronic Music
FRC Enduring Questions
C&T 201 & 202 Cultures and Traditions I & II
RESEARCH
Research Interests
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
Recent Performances
Electroacoustic Barn Dance (EABD) 2018, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida
Electronic Music Midwest (EMM) Festival 2018, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2018, Daegu, South Korea
New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF) 2018, Abrons Arts Center, NYC
Electroacoustic Barn Dance Festival (EABD) 2017, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida
4th Annual Soundscapes Concert 2018, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana
EM | ONE Concert 2017, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
Bushwick Open Studios 2017, Mise-En_Place, Brooklyn, New York City
New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF) 2017, Abrons Arts Center, NYC
3rd Annual Soundscapes Concert 2017, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana
EM | TWO Concert 2016, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
Electroacoustic Barn Dance Festival (EABD) 2016, U. of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Va.
Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the U. S. (SEAMUS) 2016 National Conference
2nd Annual Soundscapes Concert 2016, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Recent Writing
“Concert Reviews, Concert 6, Concert 12” for the International Computer Music Conference 2018, Daegu, South Korea · Published in Array, periodical of the International Computer Music Association
“A Composition Procedure for Electronic Music on Logarithmic Scales of the Harmonic Series”
“SEAMUS 2009 National Conference Review” co-authored with Tim Reed, Manchester College, North Manchester, Indiana · Published in Journal SEAMUS: The Journal of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, Vol. 21, No. 1, Fall 2009
“A Low-Cost Spherical Loudspeaker Array for Electroacoustic Music” · Presented at the Society for Composers, Inc. National Conference 2009, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico · Presented as a poster at the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2008, Belfast, Northern Ireland, International Computer Music Association (ICMA) · Published in ICMC 2008 Proceedings, pp. 596-99. ISBN 0-9713192-6-x
HONORS AND AWARDS
Great Lakes Colleges Association New Directions Initiative Singular Explorations Grant, 2010
McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Research Scholar Award, 2010
“Selectionée,” 34e Concours Internationaux de Musique et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges 2007, Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges, France
Liberal Arts Network for Development 2004 Excellence Award for Outstanding Innovation, for innovative teamwork establishing a new Music Technology Lab and infusing technology into the music curriculum
RECENT COMPOSITIONS
Three-Minute Cartoon for two-channel electronic fixed media
Wobbly for live wireless iPad interface-controlled eight-channel laptop synthesis and sampling
Homage and Refuge for vocoded sotto voce speech and digitally synthesized sound
Diptych for solo oboe or solo trumpet and electronic fixed media: I – Kepler-186f; II – Ontology: in homage to The Unanswered Question by Charles Ives
MAJORS & MINORS
AT WABASH
- Accounting (pipeline)
- Art
- Asian Studies (minor)
- Biochemistry
- Biology
- Black Studies (minor)
- Business (minor)
- Chemistry
- Classics
- Computer Science
- Economics
- Education Studies (minor)
- Engineering (dual-degree)
- English
- Environmental Studies (minor)
- Financial Economics
- Film and Digital Media (minor)
- French
- Gender Studies (minor)
- German
- Global Health (minor)
- Greek
- Hispanic Studies
- History
- Humanities
- Latin
- Law (pre-professional)
- Mathematics
- Medicine (pre-professional)
- Modern Languages
- Music
- Neuroscience (minor)
- Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Religion
- Rhetoric
- Spanish
- Theater