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Hussein Boon


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  • Principal Lecturer - Music, University of Westminster
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Hussein is a principal lecturer and Black Music Research Unit member at the University of Westminster. His areas of interest include music production, performance technologies, songwriting, modular synthesis, live coding, music business, and Artificial Intelligence. He was part of the team that established Rockschool's popular music exams and has worked for various artists, including Beats International, Freak Power, Norman Cook, Ephraim Lewis, Karen Ramirez, Billy Ocean, Charles and Eddie, Eusebe, DeLa Soul, Elisha LaVerne, Alex Parks and the seminal UK P-Funk outfit Microgroove (4th and Broadway), born from the ashes of Loose Tubes. Working as a musical director for a number of touring artists, special events for Princes' Trust and companies including Universal, Polydor, Warners, AVEX, Sanctuary, Sony, BBC TV, CITV, C4 and BFI. His recent composition work includes the BBC TV series Boarders.

His publications include using shift registers for semi-improvised songwriting and composition, live coding and the DAW, several AI and music short fiction stories and articles, a brief overview of Suzanne Ciani's pioneering synthesiser performance and composition work and reimagining the DAW as a design tool. He also creates music production and live coding tutorials on YouTube.

Experience
  • 2008–present Principal Lecturer, University of Westminster
Education
  • 2020 University of Westminster, PgDip Higher ED

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