Patrick Gleeson is a musician, synthesizer pioneer, composer and producer, from California, USA.

In 1968, Gleeson bought a Moog synthesizer and opened recording studio Different Fur.

Gleeson worked with Herbie Hancock in the early 1970s, touring with Hancock, and appearing on the albums Crossings and Sextant. Sextant and Headhunters were both recorded in part at Different Fur studios. Gleeson has worked with many other Jazz musicians, including Lenny White, Freddie Hubbard, Charles Earland and Joe Henderson.

Gleeson recorded a number of solo albums, starting with Beyond the Sun - An Electronic Portrait of Holst's "The Planets". in 1976 to which Walter Carlos contributed the sleeve notes. The album was nominated for a "best engineered recording-classical" Grammy in 1976. Beyond the Sun was followed in 1977 by a more commercial album, Patrick Gleeson's Star Wars.

Gleeson worked as an engineer on the 1978 Devo album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, part of which was recorded at Different Fur.

Gleeson sold his interest in Different Fur to two employees in 1985.

Gleeson has been involved in the scoring of a number of film soundtracks, including The Plague Dogs, Apocalypse Now and The Bedroom Window. He has scored nine television series, including Knot's Landing. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.