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Brian Hulse

Associate Professor (Theory and Composition)
Office: Ewell Hall 110
Phone: 757 221 1044
Email: [[bchuls]]
Website: {{http://www.operascore.com}}

Background

Brian Hulse (Ph.D. Harvard University) has an eclectic range of musical activities. As a composer he specializes in chamber music and opera. His music has been performed across the United States and in Europe. In the summers he directs the composition program at the soundSCAPE Festival in Maccagno, Italy. His CD Pseudosynthesis appears on Albany Records. He is currently working on a full-scale opera based on Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence. Hulse is also a music theorist and has given papers and published articles on the topics of musical repetition, time/rhythm, minimalism, tonality, and the philosophies of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze. His co-edited book entitled Sounding the Virtual: Gilles Deleuze and the Theory and Philosophy of Music was published by Ashgate.

Watch the soundSCAPE trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N-07QLa70c
Check out the new book "Sounding the Virtual: Gilles Deleuze and the Theory and Philosophy of Music" http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754667735