Ethan T. Hayden

  • Assistant Teaching Professor,
    Communication and The Arts

Ethan Hayden is a composer, performer, and author based in America's Rust Belt. His acoustic, electronic, and vocal music has been performed at conferences, festivals, and DIY spaces around the world, including Ljudbio (Uppsala, Sweden), INTIME (Coventry, UK), Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium (Toronto, ON), and E-Poetry (Buenos Aires). His works reflect ongoing investigations of language, resonance, and unorthodox generative synthesis.

Ethan received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Composition from the University at Buffalo. He also holds undergraduate degrees in Composition and Theory from the University of North Texas. His principal teachers have included Cort Lippe, Jeffrey Stadelman, Joseph Klein, Andrew May, and David Bithell. Ethan is currently Assistant Teaching Professor of Media Arts at Gannon University.

Ethan is the associate director of Wooden Cities, a Buffalo-based ensemble seeking to help increase the performance of contemporary music in Western New York. With Wooden Cities, he has co-produced nearly 100 concerts of new and experimental music across the Midwest. He is also the technical director of Null Point, a musical research group which utilizes musical techniques to investigate spatial politics, and engages politicized conceptual strategies to interrogate formal and institutional defaults of Western Art Music. As a vocalist and trombonist, he regularly performs contemporary music, sound poetry, and improvisational works. The New York Times called his solo performance of Dmitri Kourliandski's Voice-off in the New York Philharmonic's CONTACT! series "a tour de force performance" and "amazing to hear."

Also active as a writer and researcher on music, Ethan is the author of Sigur Rós's ( ), published as part of Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series. In 2019, he founded Infrasonic Press, an independent record label with the mission of releasing adventurous Rust Belt-based music.

 

  • Music & Society (ARTS 255)
  • Digital Audio Production (COMM 241)
  • Podcasting I (COMM 394)
  • University at Buffalo (SUNY), PhD in Music Composition, Dissertation: "…ce dangereux supplément…" and Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers: Two musical examinations of language and translation, 2016
  • University at Buffalo (SUNY), MA in Music Composition, 2011
  • University of North Texas, BM in Music Composition, 2008
  • University of North Texas, BM in Music Theory, 2008
  • American Society for Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP)
  • Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States
  • Union of Musicians and Allied Workers
  • "Rage, Reflection, & Hope: An Introduction to Rust Belt Artists Against Genocide" in Rust Belt Artists Against Genocide, Erie: Infrasonic Press, October 2024.
  • "The Blood Brothers' Crimes" in The 33 1/3 B-sides: New Essays by 33 1/3 Authors on Beloved and Underrated Albums, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, September 2019.
  • Sound American 19: The PLACE Issue, guest co-editor w/Colin Tucker, New York: Sound American, April 2018.
  • Sigur Rós's ( ) [33 1/3 series], New York: Bloomsbury Academic, August 2014.
  • "Adamic Passions, Screams of Joy: Language and Expression in Early 20th Century Sound Poetry," Mosaic: Journal of Music Research, Volume 2, August 2012.
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