Patrick Downey
President + CEO
Patrick Downey is the Inventor of the world’s first Fully Immersive Three-Dimensional Virtual Sphere Music Cognition Metronome. On January 24, 2017, Patrick Downey was granted a 30 claim Patent regarding his invention. The Patent is good until June 1, 2036.
Patrick is a lifelong student of music and has been a practicing guitarist for over 36 years. Patrick studied classical guitar for three years as an undergraduate student. This included one year studying classical guitar at McGill University in Montreal. In 2017, Patrick attended Steve Vai’s Vai Academy 4.0 in Palm Springs, California.
Patrick Downey serves as an Assistant Attorney General with the Maine Office of the Attorney General. He has been a practicing attorney since 1998. He handles a full caseload of child protection cases in Bangor District Court and has handled appeals and civil commitments.
Patrick Downey earned his undergraduate degree in Political Science with General University Honors from the University of Southern Maine in 1995. His undergraduate thesis was on Original Intent and the Constitution. He attended Howard University School of Law in Washington D.C. and received his J.D. in 1998. He was a member of the United Nations Association of the United States of America and served on the Maine Chapter’s Speakers Roster.
Patrick Downey is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the University of Maine where he teaches International Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, American Civil Liberties, and The Current Supreme Court Term. Patrick Downey is also an Adjunct Professor at Husson University where he teaches Rules of Evidence.
Walter Clissen
Vice President
Walter Clissen is an audio engineer, producer, and academic with immense experience in the audio engineering world. Walter Clissen was instrumental in creating the Audio Demonstration Files of this invention, available upon request.
Walter is intimately familiar not only with the Audio Demonstration Files and how they were created, but also with the Patent, what the invention envisions in terms of an actual device, and the technical difficulties and necessities involved in making this invention a real and functioning device.
Walter can speak to how the Audio Demonstration Files help to understand the full length, width, breadth, and scope of the invention.
Walter has 25+ years of experience in all aspects of the audio world. Born in Belgium and working in venues and studios all over Europe, he moved to Los Angeles, CA where he established a very successful professional career as engineer and producer. Walter’s international professional endeavors as Producer, Recording Engineer, Live Sound Engineer, Sound Designer and in Audio Post Production includes recent new Classical, Latin and Christmas albums by international recording artist Jose Feliciano, surround audio mixes on the Blu-ray release ‘Live in Tel Aviv, Israel’ and the Classical album ‘Mozart Castrato Arias’, post production work on independent movie releases and sound designs that have been heard internationally in Theatre and Opera houses, including Stephen Schwartz’s new musical “My Fairy Tale”.
He received his BFA from the Higher Institute of Theatre and Culture Spreading in Brussels, Europe and MFA equivalency in CA, USA. His academic career includes teaching several audio courses, workshops and lectures at Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, ME, at UCLA, CSU Fresno, PCPA in Santa Maria, CA, University of Kent, UK, Amsterdam School of the Arts, in Europe as well as positions as assistant professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ and University of South Carolina, SC and associate professor audio engineering, live sound technology and audio post-production at NESCom, Husson University, ME.
At Musician’s Institute Walter teaches courses in the Live Music Event Production and Audio Engineering Degree Programs.
Walter is thoroughly versed in the technology and methods available to make this invention real.