Department of Performing Arts Technology

The Department of Performing Arts Technology integrates the study of music, engineering, and allied arts in a close-knit, collaborative environment. The inspiring and accomplished faculty are internationally renowned scholars, teachers, artists and practitioners. A recent $29.5 million facilities renovation has created state-of-the-art studios for mastering a spectrum of technological skills. As part of a top-ranked public university, where excellence is the guiding principle, students have the unparalleled ability to collaborate with their highly-talented peers across campus—from working with musicians, dancers, and performing artists of every genre in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD) to developing next-generation audio technologies at Michigan’s distinguished College of Engineering

Faculty

Faculty in the PAT program are sound engineers, composers, performers, filmmakers, instrument makers, designers, songwriters, and experimental researchers into the integration of music technology with musical performance.


Anıl Çamcı

Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Performing Arts Technology

Jason Corey

Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Music
Performing Arts Technology

Hao-Wen (Herman) Dong

Assistant Professor of Music; Affiliate Faculty, Computer Science and Engineering; Affiliate Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Music + AI

John Granzow

Associate Professor of Music
Performing Arts Technology

Michael Gurevich

Chair of Performing Arts Technology and Associate Professor of Music
Performing Arts Technology

Zeynep Özcan

Assistant Professor of Music, PAT
Performing Arts Technology

Chris Vrenna

Assistant Professor of Music
Performing Arts Technology

Julie Zhu

Assistant Professor
Electroacoustic Music, Intermedia Composition, Music + AI

Degrees

performance

Undergraduate

Bachelor of Fine Arts

Bachelor of Music

Bachelor of Science

Graduate

Master of Arts

Doctor of Philosophy

Brehm Technology Suite

Serving as the community hub for PAT students, faculty, and collaborators, this concentrated suite of technologically-rich facilities has had a transformative effect on the PAT Department—building community and supporting a broad range of creative activities.

Our Stories

Alumni Notes

Transgenre songwriter Josephinex Ashley Hansis (BFA ’06, performing arts technology) composed music and lyrics for A Year without Summer, the latest production by award-winning Viennese performance artist Florentina Holzinger. This past winter, Hansis ended their long-running pop project Godmother with the band's final concert along with the release of two retrospective compilation albums. (Fall 2025)
Eric Robsky Huntley (BFA ’10, performing arts technology) serves as a lecturer in urban science and planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They also direct the MIT Spatial Analysis & Action Research Group and are the founder of OGRAPHIES Research & Design, a mission-driven spatial data science consultancy. (1/2025)
Leith Campbell (MA ’17, media arts) was awarded a residency in the inaugural cohort of the Michigan Central x Newlab Art + Technology Residency program hosted by Newlab in Detroit. The residency was formed to celebrate the reopening of Michigan Central Station. Campbell is working on a project combining composition, architectural installation, and machine learning. (1/2025)

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