Aaron M.

Hynds, DMA - Audio Engineer/Tubist/Composer

Curriculum vitae
1490 Grant Drive, Lexington, KY 40511
hyndsa@gmail.com – aaronhynds.weebly.com

EDUCATION

DMA Contemporary Music, Bowling Green State University, 2019

Emphasis: Tuba Performance (Primary) and Digital Media (Cognate)
Document title: The Composer’s Guide to the Tuba: Creating a New Resource on the
Capabilities of the Tuba Family
MM Tuba Performance, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2013
Recipient of Paul J. Collins Distinguished Graduate Fellowship
BA Music, cum laude, University of Northern Iowa, 2011
Graduated University Honors with Distinction

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Lecturer of Music Business and New Media, School of Music, University of Kentucky,
2019-present

Supervise the recording and archiving of all student and faculty recitals given within
the School of Music; design and teach courses in audio production, music business,
popular music history, and music technology; direct RocKats, the UK student rock
ensemble; act as Audio Engineer/A1 for theatrical productions as needed; act as
recording consultant for the former Saint Claire Recording Studio, now owned and
operated by the UK College of Fine Arts; provide service to the University of Kentucky
as a full-time Lecturer.

Sound Production Coordinator/Events Technician, Department of Music, Theatre, and

Dance, University of Nebraska at Kearney, 2017-2019

Supervise all audio recording and sound reinforcement activities within the
Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance; act as Director of Studio UNK; supervise the
Sound Recording Technology minor; run live sound for university events as needed;
design and supervise sound for 5 productions per year for the Theatre area; teach
courses in recording technologies, sound reinforcement, and music technology;
maintain and repair sound equipment inventory as needed.
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of Kentucky

MUS 150 – Introduction to Audio Engineering

MUS 317 – Music Technology
MUS 350 – Live Sound
MUS 350 – Freelancing 101
MUS 222 – Creativity and Innovation in Rock Music
MUC 175 – RocKats

University of Nebraska at Kearney

MUS 211 – Sound Recording and Reinforcement

MUS 301 – Music Technology
MUS 311 – Practicum in Sound Production
MUS 312 – Advanced Sound Production

TEACHING AREAS

Audio Engineering
Music Technology
Commercial Music Performance & Production
Music Entrepreneurship
Tuba, Euphonium, and Trombone Performance
Music Theory and Composition
Music Appreciation
Chamber Music Coaching

MUSIC TECHNOLOGY

Proficiencies

Audio – Avid Pro Tools, Steinberg Cubase, Cockos REAPER, Ableton Live, Adobe Audition,
Max/MSP, Pure Data, SuperCollider, Dante Certification Level I, QLab
Video & Graphic Design - Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, After Effects, & InDesign,
DaVinci Resolve, Open Broadcast Software
Notation – Avid Sibelius, Steinberg Dorico, MuseScore

Experience

Lead Engineer, Hynds Recording Services, 2014-present

Composer & Multimedia Artist, 2007-present
Intern, technology and logistics, Nief-Norf Summer Festival, 2015
Recording Technician, University of Northern Iowa, 2007-2011
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PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles & Reviews

2022 “Cubasis 3: A Mobile Digital Audio Workstation”, Review [College Music

Symposium, Volume 62, No. 2, November 2022]
2019 Conference Review, 2019 International Tuba Euphonium [ITEA Journal, Vol. 46,
No. 4, Summer 2019]
2018 “Off the Beaten Path: Beth McDonald” [ITEA Journal, Vol. 45, No. 4, Summer 2018]
2017 “Off the Beaten Path: Bill Roper” [ITEA Journal, Vol. 45, No. 1, Fall 2017]
2017 “Off the Beaten Path: Kana Kotera of Japan” [ITEA Journal, Vol. 44, No. 3, Spring
2017]
2017 “Off the Beaten Path: Marc Unternährer” [ITEA Journal, Vol. 44, No. 2, Winter 2017]
2016 “Off the Beaten Path: Mattie Barbier” [ITEA Journal, Vol. 44, No. 1, Fall 2016]
2016 “Off the Beaten Path: Pauline Boeykens” [ITEA Journal, Vol. 44, No. 1, Fall 2016]
2016 “Off the Beaten Path: Dan Peck” [ITEA Journal, Vol. 43, No. 4, Summer 2016]
2016 Conference Review, 2016 International Tuba Euphonium [ITEA Journal, Vol. 43,
No. 4, Summer 2016]
2016 Feature Profile, Ibanda Ruhumbika [ITEA Journal, Vol. 43, No. 3, Spring 2016]
2016 “Off the Beaten Path: Robin Hayward” [ITEA Journal, Vol. 43, No. 3, Spring 2016]
2016 “Off the Beaten Path: Zdzisław Piernik” [ITEA Journal, Vol. 43, No. 2, Winter 2016]
2014 “New Directions”, 2014 International Tuba Euphonium Conference Review [ITEA
Journal, Vol. 41, N0. 4, Summer 2014]

PRESENTATIONS

Invited Talks

2022 Audio Recording for Performers (and their Teachers) - College Music Society 2022
Great Lakes Conference – Millikin University
2021 A Primer on Live Sound Engineering - Association for Popular Music Education
Conference – Chicago, IL
2020 Audio Recording for Performers (and their Teachers) - College Music Society 2020
Great Lakes Conference – Oakland University (Cancelled, COVID-19)
2018 Real Composers Have Day Jobs – University of Missouri (Columbia, MO)
2018 Recording Techniques for Composers – University of Missouri (Columbia, MO)
2017 The Amplified Tuba: Three Views of a New Medium - 2017 New Music Gathering
(Bowling Green, OH)
2017 Strategies for Performing with Electronics and the Tuba – Southern Illinois
University-Carbondale
2016 Strategies for Performing with Electronics and the Tuba – Capital University
2016 Strategies for Performing with Electronics and the Tuba – Buffalo State University
2016 The Amplified Tuba: Three Views of a New Medium – Toronto International
Electroacoustic Symposium
2016 A Composer’s Guide to the Tuba – New Music Gathering (Baltimore, MD)
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2015 Strategies for Performing with Electronics and the Tuba – Bowling Green State
University
2015 Introduction to Contemporary Brass Techniques – University of Northern Iowa

Compositions Presented

2022 Bit Rot, College Music Society 2022 Great Lakes Conference (Decatur, IL)
2022 Supermassive, TUTTI Festival (Granville, OH)
2021 Bit Rot, Studio 300 Festival (Lexington, KY)
2018 Robot; ready, SPLICE Institute (Kalamazoo, MI)
2018 SID 6581, SEAMUS 2018 National Conference (Eugene, OR)
2017 SID 6581, SPLICE Institute (Kalamazoo, MI)
2016 terminal loop, SCI National Conference (Muncie, IN)
2015 Logic Array, Atlantic Music Festival (Waterville, ME)
2015 breathing machine, Atlantic Music Festival (Waterville, ME)
2014 A Soft Union (of) Teeth, ArtsX (Bowling Green, OH)

COMPOSITIONS & VISUAL ART WORKS

In-progress works
hollow town hums, for Xun+Xiao and Electronics
Minotaur, for Tuba, Video, and Electronics
Pagan Play, for Bass Clarinet and Electronics
2021
Five Fragments, for Solo Tuba
Data Decay, for Tuba and Computer
2019
Bit Rot, for Tuba and Fixed Media
2018
Transformer, for Tuba/Bass Trombone and Computer
Robot; ready, for Piano and Computer
Sin-eater, for Tuba and Computer
2017
Warlock, for Tuba and Computer
SID 6581, for amplified Violin and Computer
The n-body problem, for Tuba and Electronics
Choke (Radio Edit), for Bass Clarinet and Electronics
2016
Sediment, for 3 Bass Drums and Electronics
please be kind, for Saxophone Quartet
terminal loop, for Chinese Flute and Electronics
Again I reply, for CC Tuba and Electronics
2015
SR 108 [11:19 AM, 10/14/15], for Double Clarinet
Breathing Machine [B], for Tuba
Anisotropia, for Multipercussion and Electronics
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Logic Array, for Bass Drum and Tuba

dark rooms filled with formless people who breathe bitter shrouds, for Tuba and
Electronics
Breathing Machine, for Amplified Tuba
there are voices in the soil, for Tuba-Euphonium Octet
2014
A Soft Union (of) Teeth, single channel video projection
Idle Animation, four channel video installation
Labyrinthine, for Tuba and electronics
2011
The Hearing Room, video art work
2010
Supermassive, for Tuba and multimedia
…through countless lives one spirals upwards…, for French horn and fixed media
Flat-line, for Euphonium and electronics
Rondo, for Tuba and electronics
2009
/virus/, for Tuba-Euphonium quartet and video
Labyrinthitis, for Tuba and fixed media
2008
Cardiac, for Tuba and Multimedia
Voices of America, for Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble and Fixed Media

PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE

2022 College Music Society 2022 Great Lakes Conference, Millikin University
2022 TUTTI Festival, Denison University
2022 Guest Artist Half-Recital, Great Plains Regional Tuba Euphonium Conference
2021 Studio 300, Transylvania University
2021 International Virtual Tuba Euphonium Conference
2020 Guest Artist, Great Plains Regional Tuba Euphonium Conf. (cancelled, COVID-19)
2019 Featured Artist, UNK New Music Festival
2018 Guest Artist, Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project
2018 Guest Artist, Omaha Under the Radar
2018 Guest Artist, Vanguard New Music Series – Kent State University
2018 Guest Artist Mini-Residency, University of Missouri-Columbia
2017 Guest Improvisation Set, OutrSpaces (Omaha, NE)
2017 Guest Solo Performance, KANEKO (Omaha, NE)
2017 Guest Recital, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
2017 New Music Gathering, Bowling Green State University
2017 ADJective New Music Series, LeSo Gallery, Toledo OH
2016 Guest Recital for the Null Point Series, Buffalo, NY
2016 Guest Recital, Capital University
2016 ADJective New Music Series, LeSo Gallery, Toledo OH
2016 SPLICE Institute, Western Michigan University
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2016 Southeast Collegiate Recital Tour (East Tennessee State University, University of
South Carolina, Kennesaw State University, Valdosta State University, University of
Tennessee-Knoxville)
2015 ADJective New Music Series, LeSo Gallery, Toledo OH
2015 New York Electronic Music Festival
2015 Null Point 6: Tube Space, Buffalo, NY
2015 Guest Artist Recital, Defiance College
2015 Guest Artist Recital, Illinois State University
2015 Guest Artist Half-Recital, Southeast Regional Tuba Euphonium Conference
2014 International Summer Course for New Music, Darmstadt, DE
2014 New Music from Bowling Green, Constellation-Chicago

GUEST TEACHING

2020 Guest Teacher, Music Technology Class, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

2018 Guest Artist Mini-Residency, University of Missouri
2017 Guest Masterclass, Southern Illinois University
2016 Digital Music Masterclass, Buffalo State University
2016 Tuba/Euphonium Studio Masterclass, East Tennessee State University
2015 Tuba/Euphonium Studio Masterclass, University of Northern Iowa

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

The College Music Society

Audio Engineering Society
The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS)
International Tuba Euphonium Association (ITEA)
Pi Kappa Lambda

SERVICE

2022-pres. Music Business & Industry Editor, College Music Symposium

2021-pres. Membership Committee, Audio Engineering Society
2021-pres. Community Outreach Committee, University of Kentucky School of Music
2020-pres. University Commencement Committee, University of Kentucky
2020-2022 Recording Coordinator, SPLICE Institute (Kalamazoo, MI)
2020-2021 Audio Coordinator, Ensemble Capture Committee, University of Kentucky
2020 Live Audio Engineer, SEAMUS National Conference
(Charlottesville, VA; cancelled, COVID)
2019-21 Large Ensemble Committee, University of Kentucky School of Music
2017-18 Mentor, Loper2Loper program, University of Nebraska at Kearney
2016-17 At-Large Representative from the DMA Program,
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music Advisory Committee
Bowling Green State University
2016-17 President, Black Swamp Tuba and Euphonium Association
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2016 Bowling Green State University College of Musical Arts Student

Representative, ArtsX Planning Committee
2015 Assistant Director, Midwest Regional Tuba Euphonium Conference, Bowling
Green State University

HOBBIES

Recording technology, computer programming, video game culture and technology,

cooking and baking

PRIVATE INSTRUCTION

David Saltzman – Principal Tuba, Toledo Symphony Orchestra; Instructor of Tuba and
Euphonium, Bowling Green State University
John Stevens – Retired Professor of Tuba and Euphonium, University of Wisconsin
Madison; Composer
Dr. Jeffrey Funderburk – Professor of Tuba and Euphonium, University of Northern Iowa
Dr. Sharon Huff – Retired Adjunct Instructor of Tuba and Euphonium, Millikin
University

REFERENCES

Dr. Martina Vasil

Assistant Professor of Music Education/Division Coordinator of Department for Music Ed.
and Music Therapy, University of Kentucky
(859) 257-8203 – martina.vasil@uky.edu

Dr. Anthony Donofrio

Associate Professor of Composition and Theory, University of Nebraska at Kearney
(308) 865-8632 – donofrioaj@unk.edu

Dr. Daniel Rowland

Assistant Professor of Low Brass & Music Education, University of Wisconsin - Platteville
(608) 342-1123 – rowlandd@uwplatt.edu

Prof. David Saltzman

Instructor of Tuba and Euphonium, Bowling Green State University
Principal Tuba, Toledo Symphony Orchestra
(419) 372-2097 – dsaltzm@bgsu.edu