special applications is the creative endeavour of julien hughes, an experimental sound artist and instrument designer residing in Tiohtià:ke Montreal.
curiculum vitae
julien hughes is an experimental sound artist, instrument designer and poet. they have released a number of fixed-media compositions along with live collaborative work.
sound art samples below…
education
BFA - Concordia University
Major in Electroacoustics with minors in English Literature and Philosophy
performances and collaborations
2023
Let me finish - Dance performance with live music
2024
Canopy - Composition for animator Maévis Laverdiere’s short film “Canopy”
2025
Feedback, Routing, and Effects - Workshop in collaboration with CESSA
Orbital Mitigations - Dance performance with live music
autopoiesis
2025
a fundamentally process-oriented piece, autopoiesis is a study in cybernetic composition. the emergence of complex behaviors engendered in simple systems through the use of feedback and recursion create an expanding field of agency encompassing the sound material, the composition, the composer
eukaryote
2024
stereo reduction of a 5-channel piece inspired by mitosis, meiosis and cytokinesis. a sonic portrait of the kinetic dynamics of cellular division made using several variations of a karplus-strong synthesis patch.