This month, on Patch In, Ben and Nate talk to Wesleyan University professors Paula Matthusen and Ron Kuivila about the upcoming SEAMUS conference, installations, and the philosophical aspects of musical contextualization and social situations.

This week on Patch In, composer, laptop-performer and educator Sam Pluta joins us to talk about his work with Wet Ink Ensemble, ICE and others, hard coding, and music education. We also touch on Caustic, MOFX, the Roli Seabord and Korg Littlebits.

In our first non-Beta episode, we talk with Jason Bolte about teaching, composing, toys, and black holes. Then Ben explains Pure Data for the two minute challenge.

In this beta episode, we interview composer Mark Snyder about his many festivals, including the Electroacoustic Barn Dance. We also chat about music technology education, and Nate explains audio compression in our Two-Minute Challenge.