Doctor Garth Paine

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Biography

Dr Garth Paine is Senior Lecturer in Music Technology, a researcher at MARCS Auditory Research labs and director of the Virtual, Interactive, Performance Research Environment (VIPRE). He is particularly fascinated with sound as an exhibitable object. This passion has led to several interactive responsive environments where the inhabitant generates the sonic landscape through their presence and behaviour. It has also led to several music scores for dance generated through video tracking of the choreography. His work has been shown throughout Australia, Europe, Japan, USA, Hong Kong and New Zealand.

Dr Paine is internationally regarded as an innovator in the field of interactivity in experimental music and media arts. He is an active contributor to the International NIME conference and has been guest editor of Organised Sound Journal on several occasions.

Dr Paine’s ensemble SynC, with Professor Michael Atherton, has performed in Paris (2006), New York (2007), Liquid Architecture (2007) and Aurora festivals, and The Australian New Music Network concert series (2008).

He is a member of the advisory panel for the Electronic Music Foundation, New York and one of seventeen advisors to the UNESCO funded Symposium on the Future. Dr Paine is a chief investigator on several current ARC grants.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Sound recording
Electronic music and interactive composition
Interdisciplinary collaboration
Interactive new media arts
New directions for electronic music composition and performance
Electronic musical interfaces
Interactive dance

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Grants / Current Projects

ARC-NH & MRC Thinking Systems Special Initiative Grant: From Talking Heads to Thinking Heads: A Research Platform for Human Communication Science. 2006 - 2011 $3.4 Million

ARC Linkage: Interactive music systems in improvisational music therapy

ARC LIEF: See Hear! Multimodal Recording and Analysis Facility

ARC Linkage: Performance Practice in New Interfaces for Realtime Electronic Music Performance

UWS Partnership: Thummer Mapping Project

UWS Research Infrastructure Grant: Virtual, Interactive, Performance Research

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Awards and Recognition

Dr Paine was awarded an Australia Council for the Arts, New Media Arts Fellowship in 2000, and The RMIT Innovation Research Award in 2002 for his PhD. He received the University of Western Sydney’s Vice-Chancellor's Excellence Award for Postgraduate Research Training and Supervision in 2008. He also holds a current ARC Linkage grant in this area.

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Publications

Paine, G. (2009). Towards unified design guidelines for new interfaces for musical expression. Organised Sound, 14(2).

Paine, G. (2008). Noise and Texture: towards an Asian influenced composition approach to the concert flute. In M. Atherton, & B. Crossman (Eds.), Music of the Spirit: Asian-Pacific Musical Identity. Sydney: Australian Music Centre.

Paine, G. (2008). Gesture and Morphology in Laptop Music Performance. In R. T. Dean (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music and Digital Sound Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Paine, G. (2008). Interfacing for dynamic morphology in computer music performance. Paper presented at the Australasian Computer Music Conference, Sydney.

Paine, G. (2007). Hearing Places: Sound, Place, Time and Culture. In R. Bandt, M. Duffy, & D. MacKinnon (Eds.), Hearing Places (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, 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., & Atherton, M. (2006). Parallel Lines [Musical Composition]. Tucson, Arizona: Celestial Harmonies.

Paine, G. (2005). Endangered Sounds, a sound project. Organised Sound Journal, 10(2), 149-162.

Paine, G. (2004). Gesture and Musical Interaction: Interactive engagement through dynamic morphology. Paper presented at the New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2004, Hamamatsu.

Paine, G. (2003). REEDS, a responsive environmental sound installation. Organised Sound, 8(2), 139-150.

Paine, G. (2002). Interactivity, where to from here? Organised Sound, 7(3), 295-304.


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Other Activities

In 2005, Dr Paine led an application to the UWS Research Infrastructure Fund for funding to establish the Virtual, Interactive and Performance Research Environment (VIPRE) with support from the School of Communication and the Arts, MARCS and CAESS. The funding was successful, and VIPRE is in the process of being established on the Bankstown campus in 2006. Ongoing development has seen the VIPRE lab develop into one of the top facilities of its kind in Australia. VIPRE will be fully operational in 2009

He was awarded funds by the ARC Research Network in Human Communication Science (see external funding listing for grants associated with this event), to convene a strategic international conference - Workshop on Interactive Systems in Performance (WISP) as part of the HCSNet 2005, Summerfest at Macquarie University 15 – 16 December 2005. An additional closed-door day occurred at UWS, MARCS on December 17 with international and national experts invited to WISP.

Qualifications

PhD (Interactive Systems)
GradCert (IT)
BMus (Performance)

Curated

• Aurora Festival 2006 and ABC Radio National Broadcast – In SynC Concert with Stephen Adams (ABC Radio national)
• Listening Posts – UWS digital Music students work and Staff compositions – at Campbelltown Arts Centre for two weeks during the Aurora Festival
• ABC Radio National – The Night Air Program – I Love Raft Auras – UWS Digital Music 6 students working with ABC Radio National to create a Remix of the Aurora Festival – 2hr broadcast on the Night Air, ABC Radio
• Industry Partnership - Electrofringe Festival, Newcastle. Collaborative presentation of software development and help lab and cross institutional Uni-Lateral seminar for presentation of Music Technology/Media Arts research in universities throughout Australia. Collaborative residency for International guest, Eric Singer from NYC. CAESS College Events Funds ($2000) in 2004, and the School of Communication Arts funding $6000 in 2006

Chair

2005/2006
• Co-ordinator of HCSNet 2005, Workshop on Interactive Systems in Performance (WISP) at Macquarie University 15 – 16 December 2005. Hosted by The ARC Research Network in Human Communication Science (see external funding listing for grants associated with this event)
• Chair of the inaugural installation selection panel for NIME05 (Vancouver), 2005, and member of same panel in 2006

Memberships

• Member of the review committee for the CRC/Cornerstone AHPEG funding program for Florida State University, 2005
• Member of the Technical Advisory Panel for the Electronic Music Foundation (NYC)

2002-current
• Member of the editorial board for the Australia Sound Design Project
• 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

2003- current
• Member of paper review panel for NIME03, NIME04, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and ICMC (International Computer Music Conference), 2003, 04, 05, 06, 07, 09

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