Thanks to Tom Mays for making this video of me performing my resonating cymbal instrument in Strasbourg is late 2018.

I map the resonant frequencies of each cymbals to a row on the LinnStrument allowing me to move across the cymbals range with ease. I love the way they develop beatings and extra activity depending on the air and the frequencies dialed in - always surprises me. This is my small ensemble of 4 cymbals - I also have an 8 cymbal instrument.

Music For Cymbals from Garth Paine on Vimeo.

There is an increasing number of AES67 devices being released to market, that seriously address spatial audio in the life context. The new Merging technologies Merging+Anubis interface is an interesting example which is networkable up to 256 channels that provides a range of onboard monitoring options for spatial audio and promises in a forthcoming firmware update real-time and Masonic decoding up to seventh order.

Other examples include a line of technology from Klang, such as this one, which provide monitor mixes for multiple musicians for 3D headphones.

Klang also have an 8 channel break-out box which looks like a good balance between other offerings listed below

There are also a collection of differing analog outputs and mic-pres etc - for an ambisonic dome rig one would want at least 24 analog outs to speakers

AtteroTech have a 32 channel solution for balanced XLR. I like their smaller 4 channel AES67/Dante-Analog solution (unD4O) - one could have a number of these dotted around a dome which makes for shorter analog cable runs. Or if more channels are needed perhaps the und32, 32 channel single unit,

Here is a documentary video of my research and performance for Future Perfect - produced by ZKM

A highlight of »inSonic 2018: Algorithmic Spaces« was the world premiere of »Future Perfect«, which was presented in the ZKM cube. Garth Paine, media artist and sound researcher, was a guest artist at the IRCAM (Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music) in Paris and at the ZKM in 2018. With »Future Perfect«, he developed an immersive 3D video performance for High Order Ambisonics and Virtual Reality for smartphones.

I am currently at UNSW in Sydney, Australia presenting at the Move Symposium as part of Sydney Design Week. Saturday March 9 at 2:30PM I will be giving a talk on work I did in 2018 at IRCAM, developing a new system to performance music on the audiences smartphones and at 6:30 I will be premiering a new work for cellphones as part of the the concert, capping the day with examples of what I talk about in the early afternoon. If you are in Sydney, come along and bring your phone!!

Move Symposium Program