After graduating from Somerset High School in 1974,[1] Boulanger attended New England Conservatory of Music as an undergraduate, where his thesis was a commission by Alan R. Pearlman[2] for the Newton Symphony titled "Three Soundscapes for Two Arp 2600 Synthesizers and Orchestra".
Compositionally, I am interested in extending the voice of the traditional performer through technological means to produce a music which connects with the past, lives in the present and speaks to the future.
1 (Neuma, 1990: From Temporal Silence), and his interactive orchestral and chamber music compositions have been premiered at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Seoul Opera House, and the Beijing Central Conservatory.
[16] Boulanger is a published author under the MIT Press, for which he has written and edited two canonical Csound[17] and audio programming textbooks, the latter having been co-edited with Victor Lazzarini.
[20] The project featured custom performance controller systems involving Max/MSP/Jitter, OSC, live video synthesis, DMX lighting and Arduino instruments developed by Boulanger and his students.
[29] Boulanger's notable students include Elaine Walker, BT,[30][31] DJ Gomi, Yoon Sang,[32] Marcel Chyrzyński,[33] Tobias Enhus,[34] and Paris Smaragdis.