Dr. Patton is a musician, scholar, and technologist active in the fields of experimental music and multimedia theatre whose work explores the intersection of technology and performance. The design of new musical instruments as well as interfaces and computer systems for analysis, composition, and performance is at the center of his practice. He is also a frequent collaborator in installation, network art, and performance art projects. Dr. Patton's scholarship includes presentations and writing about the contemporary practice of music and art forms that are deeply mediated by technology attempting to flesh out the theoretical implications for agency, subjectivity, improvisation, and even circuit design.