Lecturer in Digital Media (Interaction), RMIT University Vietnam. PhD Interactive Composition, University of Melbourne.
Patrick Hartono is a composer and researcher working in interactive media, building systems where machine perception and spatial sound become compositional material. His practice sits at the intersection of interactive media and transversal design: sound, image and computation treated as one reconfigurable system rather than separate disciplines.
Two threads run through the work. The first turns computational classification into something a room can encounter directly — installations where machine vision, language models and generative systems become visible, audible, and occasionally uncomfortable. The second treats sound as spatial material — multichannel and ambisonic environments, and performance systems built for the devices and rooms people already have, rather than for equipment much of Southeast Asia cannot afford.
His research has been published in Organised Sound and the Computer Music Journal (Cambridge University Press and MIT Press), and in peer-reviewed proceedings including ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM Creativity & Cognition and NIME. His PhD was awarded the Conservatorium Director's Award for Exceptional Doctoral Research at the University of Melbourne. He has supervised ten or more MA researchers, seven of whom reached peer-reviewed publication at ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM C&C, NIME and ARTECH — in every case as first author.
He serves on the board of the International Computer Music Association, is Co-Chair of ACM Designing Interactive Systems 2026 (NUS Singapore), and built TD-EDUPack, a pedagogical resource for node-based programming environments, presented at the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee's SOIREE 2026.