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DANIEL HOSKEN
Dan Hosken is an Associate Professor of Music at California State
University, Northridge, where he teaches courses in music technology
and composition and manages the Music Technology Lab and Advanced
Projects Studio. Dr. Hosken is an active composer of acoustic and
electronic music with a special emphasis on interactive works and
multimedia. His research interests include innovations in the pedagogy
of sound composition to make that medium accessible to both musicians
and those without traditional musical training such as artists,
multimedia designers, etc. This research has led to a number of
innovative student projects and courses taught at CSUN that involve
cross-disciplinary work by students in Art, Cinema and Television Arts,
and Music.
Dan Hosken?s music has been performed at Carnegie Recital Hall, the
"Cube" at the MIT Media Lab, and at such festivals as the National
Conference of the Society of Composers (SCI), the National Conference of
SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the US), the Florida
Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, the Seoul International Computer Music
Festival, the International Symposium on Electronic Art, and the
International Computer Music Conference. His honors include Finalist in
the Concorso Internazionale "Luigi Russolo" and Honorable Mentions in
the ASCAP Grants to Young Composers competition. Hosken was a
co-founder of AUROS, a Boston-based new music ensemble, for which he
served as co-director and conductor. He has also served as a
co-director and conductor for the Madison Chapter of the Wisconsin
Alliance for Composers.
Hosken holds a D.M.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.M.
in Composition with Academic Honors from New England Conservatory of
Music, and a B.S. in Music and Physics from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. He studied computer music with Barry Vercoe, Tod
Machover, and Robert Ceely, and composition with John Harbison, Stephen
Dembski, and William Thomas McKinley. |
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