Patrick Muchmore

Patrick Muchmore is a Lecturer in Music at the City College of New York. Holding a PhD from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (dissertation on Nine Inch Nails) and a BM from the University of Oklahoma, he is a composer/performer with performances across the United States and Ukraine. He co-founded New York’s Anti-Social Music and has taught at SLC since 2004.

• Undergraduate Courses: Music History, Music and (Almost) Everything All at Once, The Music of Babel: Languages of Sound
• Advanced Theory Courses: 20th-Century Theoretical Approaches, Post-Tonal and Rock Music, Compositional Tools and Techniques

His research bridges classical composition with rock and electronic music, focusing on tonal and post-tonal theoretical frameworks.

Areas of expertise include:

• Music composition
• Rock music analysis
• Electronic sound languages
• 20th-century theoretical approaches