PAT alumnus designs headphone processor

Devin Kerr, a graduate of our B.S. in Sound Engineering and M.A. in Media Arts programs, designed the audio signal processing algorithm in the FHX Headphone Processor.

George Brecht's Motor Vehicle Sundown

PAT students and faculty will present a rare performance of George Brecht's Motor Vehicle Sundown on Sunday May 20 at 5pm. The performance will mark the simultaneous closing of UMMA's exhibit Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life and the opening of the 12th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). Free and open to the public.

The performance will take place in parking Lot C-2 on the south side of N. University at Thayer, next to Kraus Natural Science Building.

George Brecht's Motor Vehicle Sundown | UMMA Events

Review of U-M Symphony Band CD

A review of the University of Michigan Symphony Band CD Artifacts (Equilibrium Records), engineered, mixed, and mastered by Professor Jason Corey.

http://audaud.com/2012/05/artifacts-works-by-bright-sheng-joel-puckett-michael-daugherty-wm-bolcom-u-of-mich-sym-band-equilibrium-records/

Digital Music Ensemble premieres Stephen Rush opera in NYC

Congratulations to Professor Stephen Rush and the Digital Music Ensemble on their recent performance at the Shapeshifter Lab in New York! On the bill was Robert Ashley’s seminal work “Kit Carson” and a premiere of Rush's “US Grant Fluxkit Opera.”
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/8832038/NY/Brooklyn/Digital-Music-Ensemble/Shapeshifter-Lab/

New PAT courses

We have a couple of new PAT classes being offered in the fall. PAT 313 and PAT 451/551. Titles and descriptions are below. Check them out!

Open to all U-M students:
PAT 313 Special Topics - Detroit: Birthplace of Techno (3 credit hours)
Instructor: Alvin Hill
This course examines Detroit's integral role in the development of electronic dance music. We will survey the technological and cultural developments, particularly in the 1960's and 1970's, which set the scene for the emergence of Detroit's early techno producers, dissecting the elements that contributed to the city's unique brand of "high tech soul."

I'm told there are going to be some amazing guests from the Detroit Techno scene dropping in on the class.


Open only to PAT majors:
PAT 451/551 Interactive Media Design I (3 credit hours)
Instructor: Michael Gurevich
This course introduces the technological and theoretical foundations of designing physically interactive media experiences. Students develop interactive sensing systems and program embedded computing devices as well as real-time auditory, visual and tangible displays. Through exercises that draw on theory and techniques of interaction design, students create technological sketches and prototypes for novel devices and artworks.