Hussein Boon

Hussein is a multi-instrumentalist and music educator with a diverse range of recording, production, business, and performance experiences. As a principal lecturer at the University of Westminster and member of the Black Music Research Unit, his teaching areas include music production, performance technologies, songwriting, modular synthesis, live coding, music business and Artificial Intelligence. He has taught for a number of distinguished institutions including Goldsmiths, IOE, City Lit, UoW and for organisations such as Prince’s Trust, Community Music, Rockschool, and managed special projects for Arts Council of England, Domex, BBC R2 and Somerset House.

As a session musician he has worked for a diverse range of 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 publications include using shift registers for semi-improvised songwriting, several short fiction stories about AI and music, reimagining the DAW as a design tool, and the role of the anti-aesthetic in music production education. He is an independent artist releasing his own material, makes YouTube video music production tutorials and is the organiser of the London Ableton Live User Group which meets to discuss the creative application of music technology.

To see more about Hussein’s publications and talks, see here. You can get in touch with Hussein via email at h.boon@westminster.ac.uk.