{"id":33147,"date":"2017-04-20T11:18:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T15:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=33147"},"modified":"2017-04-23T14:42:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T18:42:21","slug":"royal-pride-luke-mullet-musician-poet-weightlifter-mathematician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/royal-pride-luke-mullet-musician-poet-weightlifter-mathematician\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Royal Pride: Luke Mullet, musician, poet, weightlifter, mathematician &#8230; and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cOur Royal Pride\u201d<\/strong> <em>is an occasional series celebrating Eastern Mennonite University\u2019s undergraduate students who contribute to campus life in extraordinary ways in addition to their academic pursuits.\u00a0These students enthusiastically create their own niches, constantly re-defining what it means to be an EMU Royal student \u201cLike No Other.\u201d Read more profiles <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/academics\/\">here<\/a>. Nominate a student with an email to <a href=\"mailto:news-editor@emu.edu\" target=\"_blank\">news-editor@emu.edu<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">***<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the world<\/p>\n<p>Holding it all<\/p>\n<p>Containing the depths<\/p>\n<p>And skies tall<\/p>\n<p>Small spaces unhinged<\/p>\n<p>Winding our way<\/p>\n<p>Light beckons<\/p>\n<p>Steady feet<\/p>\n<p>Close your eyes<\/p>\n<p>It all will repeat<\/p>\n<p>This poem, <em>Worlds,<\/em> is more than just a tapestry of evocative words to author Luke Mullet, a sophomore at Eastern Mennonite University. It is also the inspiration for a corresponding musical composition. While the math major\u2019s poems are esoteric, sometimes cryptic, his compositions are directly emotional, reminiscent of epic movie scores flavored with a Celtic-Tibetan fusion. He has composed electronic music for five years, but his style has recently shifted towards cinematic songs. He uses synthesizers of choirs, orchestras and other ethnic instruments to \u201ccreate musical imagery and worlds of sound,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just let everything that I\u2019m holding go, and free flow with the words that come into my mind,\u201d says Mullet. \u201cI would write a poem, read the poem, then compose music.\u201d He is now in an independent study with professor and composer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emu.edu\/personnel\/people\/show\/rek2227\">Ryan Keebaugh<\/a>, which has become as much collaboration as instruction.<\/p>\n<p>Keebaugh commissioned Mullet to compose six poems. These have become part of Keebaugh\u2019s new composition written for the Seen\/Heard Trio, an American contemporary music trio of a flutist, harpist, and mezzo-soprano singer. The work, titled <em>The Book of Hours,<\/em> \u201cwill alter the layout, structure, and listening experience of what we term as a &#8220;concert&#8221; setting,\u201d explains Keebaugh. \u201cThe six hour work will include Luke&#8217;s poems, one for every hour.\u201d The composition premiers this fall in Iowa, with performances to follow in New Mexico and Richmond, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Mullet, who also sings in the choir <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/music\/ensemble\/\">Emulate<\/a>, is nothing if not well-rounded. His activities range from the right-brained arts to weight lifting to left-brained math to philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat makes me, me? I think it\u2019s a reflection of all of these things as a whole,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s quite the Renaissance man,\u201d says Keebaugh.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33150\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33150\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/04\/royal-pride-luke-mullet-musician-poet-weightlifter-mathematician\/20170315-luke-mullet-music-composition-lesson-013-1000px\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33150 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/04\/20170315-Luke-Mullet-music-composition-lesson-013-1000px-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/04\/20170315-Luke-Mullet-music-composition-lesson-013-1000px-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/04\/20170315-Luke-Mullet-music-composition-lesson-013-1000px-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/04\/20170315-Luke-Mullet-music-composition-lesson-013-1000px.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luke Mullet: &#8220;Quite the Rennaissance man,&#8221; says music professor Ryan Keebaugh, who commissioned poetry from the sophomore and has worked with him on an independent study project this summer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mullet has also been helping professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emu.edu\/personnel\/people\/show\/showalda\">Daniel Showalter<\/a> to edit a peer-reviewed article about mathematical selection bias in statistics, and create an answer key for a high school math textbook. Like many musically-minded people, Mullet has always a knack for math, but is now interested in the more abstract facets of the field. His enjoyment of proof-based math, which deals more with logic than calculations, has led him to take several philosophy courses.<\/p>\n<p>He is one of several students who are trying to revitalize the math club, and is a senator in the Student Government Association. After all these intellectual, sedentary pursuits, Mullet turns to weight lifting for fitness and focus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a great outlet that\u2019s different from math, music, philosophy, and anything else that I\u2019m engaged with,\u201d says Mullet. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of a way to be mindful, or be more engaged with your body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last spring, he helped sophomore Matt Holden start the Royals Lifting Club, which disseminates weight lifting information, promotes camaraderie and inclusiveness and meets in the fitness center for lifting competitions. Between 20 and 30 people attend their events.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s next? After applying for math internships and assisting the Weather Vane with their year-in-review extended issue, Mullet will spend a week at EMU\u2019s Student Kairos Place, a mountain retreat for undergraduate writers and artists. There, he will immerse himself in a poetry and composition project.<\/p>\n<p>Says Mullet, \u201cI\u2019ve found music to become a really valuable part of who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur Royal Pride\u201d is an occasional series celebrating Eastern Mennonite University\u2019s undergraduate students who contribute to campus life in extraordinary ways in addition to their academic pursuits.\u00a0These students enthusiastically create <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/royal-pride-luke-mullet-musician-poet-weightlifter-mathematician\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Our Royal Pride: Luke Mullet, musician, poet, weightlifter, mathematician &#8230; and more<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14715,13808,17562,5598,5183,14139],"tags":[16989,17600,15918],"feature":[17427,17426,17241,17422],"class_list":["post-33147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life","category-computer-science","category-digest","category-mathematical-sciences","category-music","category-student-profiles","tag-daniel-showalter","tag-r","tag-ryan-keebaugh","feature-emu-home-page-feature","feature-myemu-feature","feature-news-feature","feature-news-landing-page-main-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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