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Interactive Sound Installation Works
Sound Installation Works that engage with the environment and the people within them
Dr Garth Paine - Abridged CV 2009
• Current Position:
Senior Lecturer in Music Technology,
Director of VIPRE research lab
Member, MARCS Auditory Laboratories,
University of Western Sydney, NSW, Australia
Career Summary:
Academic, Composer, Installation Artist, Sound Designer
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. 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. 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 has twice been invited to guest edit Organised Sound Journal, 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 , the New York Electronic Arts festival , Liquid Architecture, Ear to The Earth (NYC), BEAP and the Aurora and Camden Haven music festivals, and The Australian New Music Network concert series. 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 (2003-2006) 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 research environment (VIPRe).
• Project Leader, Virtual, Interactive, Performance Research Environment (VIPRE), UWS (2005 - )
• Senior Lecturer in Music Technology, Research Member, MARCS, University of Western Sydney (2003 - )
• Member of MARCS Auditory Labs, UWS
• Head of Program – Electronic Arts, University of Western Sydney (2003-06)
• PhD (Animation and Interactive Media) RMIT University, (December 2003)
• Featured artist in the 2003 New York Digital Salon, and DesignX, Florida State Museum of fine Art
• Lecturer in Music Technology and Innovation, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
• Full time freelance composer and sound designer since 1987
Recent presentations of, installation and performance works (2004-09):
1. Ear to the Earth Festival, New York (2009) http://www.eartotheearth.org/
2. The Soundings Festival, Limerik, Ireland (2009) http://soundings.ie/
3. The Australian New Music Network (2008) http://www.newmusicnetwork.com.au/
4. Liquid Architecture Festival (2008) http://www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/
5. New York Electronic Arts Festival (2007) http://www.nyeaf.org/
6. Camden Haven Music Festival (2007) http://www.camdenhavenmusicfestival.org.au/
7. Aurora Festival of New Music and ABC Classic FM live broadcast, 2006 http://www.aurorafestival.com.au/2006/
8. Encounter for HurdiGurdi and Live Electronic processing (2005) (on upcoming CD with M. Atherton) performed, Sydney Eclectic Composers Collective - see http://www.secsmusic.org/bit/20050501.html
9. Agora/Résonances Music Festival and NIME06, Paris, France, 2006
10. Intimate Excursions – performance with Ass/Professor Curtis Bahn, NIME 05 conference, Vancouver
11. Meterosonics Online interactive weather driven music system. Funded by Australia Council for the Arts, Sounding Out Grant. Partners include, McGill, De Montfort, and ASU http://www.meterosonics.com
12. Black Box, Brisbane, Feb 2005 http://www.smallblackbox.com.au/artists.php?artist_id=95
13. BEAP04, Biennale of Electronic Arts, Perth, 2004 http://www.beap.org/beap2004/
14. NIME04 conference, Shizuoka Uni, Hamamatsu, 2004 (Japan)
15. Songlines Festival, Blue Mountains, Sydney, 2004
16. ICAD conference, Studio Theatre, Sydney Opera House, 2004
Selected Publications
• Paine, G. (2009). Towards unified design guidelines for new interfaces for musical expression. Organised Sound, 14(2), 143-156.
• Paine, G. (2009). Pools, Pixes and Potentials - Biodance. Paper presented at the ISEA, Belfast, Ireland.
• Paine, G. (2008). Gesture and Morphology in Laptop Music Performance. In R. T. Dean (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music (pp. 299-329). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Paine, G. (2008). Noise and Texture, towards and Asian influences composition approach to the concert flute. In M. Atherton & B. Crossman (Eds.), Music of the Spirit: Asian-Pacific Musical Identity (pp. 139-149). Sydney: Australian Music Centre.
• Lem, A., Paine, G., & Drummond, J. (2008). A Dynamic Sonification Device in Creative Music Therapy. Paper presented at the Research Matters, Making a Difference, Sydney.
• Paine, G. (2008). Interfacing for dynamic morphology in computer music performance. Paper presented at the Australasian Computer Music Conference, Sydney.
• Paine, G., & Sky, H. (2008). Pools, Pixes and Potentials. Paper presented at the World Dance Alliance Conference, Brisbane, Australia.
• Paine, G. (2007). Playing and Hearing Sonic Environments. In R. Bandt, M. Duffy, & D. MacKinnon (Eds.), Hearing Places: Sound, Place, Time and Culture (pp. 348-368). Newcastle, England: Cambridge Scholars Press.
• Paine, G. (2007). Interfacing for dynamic morphology in computer music performance. Paper presented at the International Conference on Music Communication Science (ICOMCS), Sydney.
• Paine, G. (2007). Sonic Immersion: Interactive Engagement in Real-Time Immersive Environments. SCAN Journal of Media Arts and Culture (online), 4(1).
• Paine, G., Stevenson, I., & Pearce, A. (2007). The Thummer Mapping Project (ThuMP). Paper presented at the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME07), New York City, NY.
• Paine, G. (2006). Interactive, Responsive Environments: a Broader Artistic Context. In Engineering nature : art & consciousness in the post-biological era (pp. 312-334). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Intellect LTD.
• Paine, G. (2006). The Thummer Mapping Project - ThuMP. Paper presented at the ENGAGE 06, Sydney.
• Paine, G., & Atherton, M. (2006). Parallel Lines [Audio CD]. Tucson, Arizona: Celestial Harmonies.
• Paine, G. (2005). Sonic Immersion: Interactive Engagement in Realtime Responsive Environments. Paper presented at the e-Performance and Plugins Conference, Sydney.
• Paine, G. (2005). Endangered Sounds, a sound project. Organised Sound Journal, 10(2), 149-162.
• Paine, G. (2005). Artificial Intelligence Systems as a solution to subjective video sensing in Contemporary Performing Arts. Paper presented at the CAESS Conference, Sydney.
Selected Funding (2005/7)
• (2007) Research Partnerships Program, UWS, Music Therapy Project - $10,000
• (2007) Industry Funding, Nordoff-Robins, Music Therapy Project- $10,000
• (2006) ARC Linkage Project (Paine LP0667671 , TIEM), (2006:$35,984, 2007:$46,708, 2008:$47,418)
• (2006) Research Infrastructure Funding, UWS, Ahha Project - $214,816
• (2006) ARC & MH&NRC (Burnham et al TS0669874) From Talking Heads to Thinking Heads: A Research Platform for Human Communication Science (AU$3.4M)
• (2006) ARC LEIF, See Hear! Multimodal Recording Analysis (Stevens et al. - LE0668448, 2006 : $150,000)
• (2005) Research Infrastructure Funding, UWS, VIPRE Project - $214,816
• (2005) Research Partnerships Program, UWS, ThuMP Project - $35,000
• (2005) Industry Funding, Jammertronics, ThuMP Project- $35,000
Other Current Research Activity
Contributions to the broader research community including Editorial/Curatorial roles, and community engagement:
• Curator – In SynC – Concert for acoustic instruments and live electronic processing, ABC Classic FM broadcast, Aurora Festival (May 2006)
• Chair of the installation selection panel for NIME05 (Vancouver),
• Guest Editor - Organised Sound Journal, International Journal of Music Technology, Cambridge University Press UK (8:2) Guest editor. ISSN 1355-7718
• Organiser of UWS student activities at the Electrofringe Festival, Newcastle, NSW (2004-05)
• Member of the Technical Advisory Panel for the Electronic Music Foundation (NYC)
• Board member of the Australian Sound Design Project.
• Member of HCSNet (www.hcsnet.edu.au) the ARC Network in Human Communication Science,
Recent Press
Realtime Arts: ARTISTS [AS] EDUCATORS: SOUND http://www.realtimearts.net/article/74/8159
Interview with Garth Paine: Composing Potentials http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue67/7868
Interactivity in Performance: Art as Research (WISP) http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue71/8032
Innovation: in a word: http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue67/7861
The Bulletin (July 2006), Music taking the world by storm http://bulletin.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=141421