Daniel Hulme
Dan is responsible for the management and development of the Faculty’s studio and music technology facilities, and will be available to introduce you to these facilities, or give advice on electronic composition and performance technology. For more information about the studio facilities and bookings please click here
Teaching & Research
Dan writes, presents and examines syllabus focused on studio practice, production and composition, electro-acoustic music, interactive electronics and computer music, pop music and sound design for moving picture.
He routinely works with graduate and undergraduate students to help them shape their ideas in research, performance and studio practice.
He is course director for FHS: List D; Recording & Producing Music, and also presents ‘Experimental Electronic Music’ as part of the Prelims and FHS Composition syllabus.
He is co-founder and one of the directors of the University of Oxford’s EMPRES (Electronic Music Practice RESearch) group. EMPRES exists as a research interface between music industry and academia. They regularly host workshops, talks and concerts including the popular Art of Noises concert series at Modern Art Oxford (more below).
His current research interests are focused on immersive sound, studio production and composition; specifically how music composition, arrangement, and the soundscape and can be creatively re-imagined using 3D audio formats such as Dolby Atmos and Higher Order Ambisonics in recorded music.
In 2018 he received funding from the John Fell Fund and RODE Microphones to research and direct a documentary on the development of Ambisonics in Oxford, and the now defunct OUTRS (Oxford University Tape Recording Society). Into the Soundfield focuses on the ground-breaking innovations and little-known story of Oxford alum, Michael Gerzon. The associated website has become an invaluable resource for other researchers in the field.
MUSIC FACULTY: ELECTRONIC MUSIC PRACTICE RESEARCH
The University of Oxford’s Electronic Music Practice RESearch group (EMPRES) aims to promote and advance research and public dissemination in Electronic Music Practice. It does so by working with musicians, composers, producers, researchers and academics from a wide range of disciplines interested in electronic music, as well as other members of the music industry.
‘ART OF NOISES’ CONCERT SERIES; WITH MODERN ART OXFORD.
Dan curates this regular concert series where EMPRES takes over the Modern Art Oxford galleries to present innovative performances and research that explores the boundaries between music, sound and technology.
INTO THE SOUNDFIELD: MICHAEL GERZON AND AMBISONICS AT OXFORD - DOCUMENTARY
A documentary film and accompanying website to introduce to the public the work of Gerzon and other members of the Oxford University Tape Recording Society (OUTRS) whilst students at Oxford during in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Gerzon's contributions to the world are recognized by his peers, but now his legacy is being acknowledged beyond the audio industry, as Ambisonics has become the standard immersive surround-sound format of Virtual Reality.
