Dr Paine is internationally regarded as an innovator in the field of interactivity in new media arts. His immersive interactive environments have been exhibited throughout Australia, Europe, Japan, USA, Hong Kong and New Zealand.
Dr Garth Paine is particularly fascinated with sound as an exhibitable object. This passion has led to the creation of several interactive responsive environments where the inhabitant generates the sonic landscape through their presence and behaviour. It has also led to a considerable body of work that creates music scores for dance in realtime using video tracking of the choreography.
In 1999 Garth Paine was composer in residence at the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung (State Institute for Music Research - SIM) in Berlin, exhibiting his installation MAP1 in the Musical Instrument museum, Berlin during the residency. He was commissioned by SIM to produce MAP2, which was exhibited at the Museum for Musical Instrauments, Berlin from December 30, 1999 to January 8, 2000.
He has been part of the organising and peer review panels for the International Conference On New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) since it’s inception and invited as guest editor of Organised Sound, a pre-eminent international journal on music technology published by Cambridge University Press. Dr Paine has been awarded the Australia Council for the Arts New Media Arts Fellowship at RMIT University in 2000, and The RMIT Innovation Research Award in 2002 and the University of Western Sydney’s Vice-Chancellor's Excellence Award for Postgraduate Research Training and Supervision in 2008.
In recent years, Dr Paine’s ensemble SynC (http://www.syncsonics.com) with Professor Atherton, has performed at the agora festival, Paris (2006), the New York Electronic Arts festival (2007), Liquid Architecture (2007) and the Aurora and Camden Haven music festivals, and The Australian New Music Network concert series (2008). He has also become increasingly involved with the design of sound and interactive exhibitions in museums and galleries. These include the Melbourne Exhibition, the East Supper Space and the Immigration Museum for the Museum of Victoria, the Australian Jewish Museum, the Performing Arts Museum, and the Eureka Stockade Centre.
He is a member of the advisory panel for the Electronic Music Foundation, New York and one of 17 advisors to the UNESCO funded Symposium on the Future, a project focused on formulating an evolving set of principles (theory), that describes a taxonomy / design space of electronic musical instruments. Dr Paine also holds a current ARC Linkage grant in this area.
Dr Garth Paine was a freelance sound artist for 18 years before becoming lecturer in Music Technology and Innovation at De Montfort University, UK from 2002 to 2003. He was Head of Program - Electronic Arts (2003-2005) at the University of Western Sydney, where he is currently Senior Lecturer in Music Technology, a researcher at MARCS Auditory Research labs and director of the Virtual, Interactive, Performance ResearchEenvironment (VIPRe).
His formal training includes a Bachelor of Music (Performance) from the
Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, and a two year Sound Engineering Trainee-ship with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He has been Lecturer in Electronic Music at the Conservatorium of Tasmania and RMIT, Melbourne.
The recent years have seen Garth Paine's music and interactive sound work have been at:
The showing of his work at Ars Electronic in Linz lead to him being listed as one of twenty people "changing the face of electronic music" by the German Keyboard Magazine.
His work has ranged across the Museum industry with permanent installations in the: