Patrick Hartono is a composer and researcher working in interactive media, building systems where machine perception and spatial sound become compositional material.

Lecturer in Digital Media (Interaction), RMIT University Vietnam
PhD Interactive Composition, University of Melbourne — Conservatorium Director's Award
patrick.hartono@rmit.edu.vn · ORCID

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Machine perception made experiential

Systems that bring computational classification into a room, where an audience encounters it directly rather than reading about it.

Jakarta Witness — Gold Award, iNVENTX 2026; paper accepted, SIGGRAPH Asia 2026
II

Sonic environments — immersive and spatial

Environments where sound organises space and interaction, built for the devices and rooms people already have.

Hutan Plastik — Ars Electronica 2025; nominee, 28th AMI Awards
Trapped — Linux Audio Conference, Stanford CCRMA
Ciung Wanara — Harvard University; NIME 2024, Gaudeamus

Situated practice runs through both strands — Southeast Asia treated methodologically, not biographically.