The weekly Performing Arts Technology Seminar regularly hosts visiting artists, musicians, and researchers, often in conjunction with concerts, workshops, and masterclasses. Guests enrich the educational environment for PAT students, providing complementary perspectives and insights gained from real-world experiences.
Initiated in 2015, the PAT Department’s annual student-organized Resonance event features the work of women and nonbinary artists in electronic music with a concert, seminar, and masterclass led be a special invited guest. Resonance guests to date are:
Andrea Parkins– composer, improviser, and sound artist
Pamela Z– pioneering live electronic composer, performer and media artist
Olivia Block– media artist and composer
Other recent guests of the Department of Performing Arts Technology have included:
Carl Craig– pioneering Detroit Techno producer and DJ
Matthew Dear– producer, DJ, co-founder of Ghostly International
Hannah Higgins– art historian, Fluxus scholar, Professor at the School of Art and Art History
University of Illinois, Chicago
Alejandro Acierto– sound and visual artist, performer, clarinetist
Kid Koala– world-renowned scratch DJ, music producer, composer, and graphic novelist
Shigeto– Detroit-based electronic musician and drummer
Helen Feng– pioneer of Chinese Indie Rock, “Queen of Beijing Rock”, vocalist of Nova Heart
Chris Chafe – composer, improvisor, director of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics and Professor of Music, Stanford University
Jeffrey Treviño– composer, Assistant Professor of Music and Technology, Cal State Monterey Bay
Carolyn Chen– Los Angeles-based composer, Guqin performer
Joo Won Park– composer, computer music performer, Assistant Professor of Music Technology, Wayne State University
Paul Riser– legendary Motown arranger, trombonist, member of the “Funk Brothers”
Bryan Pardo– Associate Professor Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Music Theory & Cognition, Northwestern University; Director of the Interactive Audio Lab
Rick Taube– Professor of Composition-Theory, University of Illinois