Research Catalogue

Garth Paine is currently the Interim Director of the School of Arts Media and Engineering at Arizona State University where he is also a professor of Digital Sound and Interactive Media.

Until mid 2012, Dr Garth Paine was a Senior Lecturer in Music Technology, at the University of Western Sydney where he directed 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 works, generated through realtime video tracking and or bio-sensing of the dancers. 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. He has lead the Taxonomy of Interfaces/Instruments for Electronic Music performance (TIEM) projects with partners McGill University and the Electronic Music Foundation, resulting in on online database of current practice and opening up the discussion of a taxonomy for classification of new instruments to assist research in the field.

Dr Paine’s ensemble SynC acts as a platform for research into new interfaces for electronic music performance. SynC has performed in, Paris (2006), New York (2007), Liquid Architecture (2007), Aurora festival (2006, 2008), and The Australian New Music Network concert series (2008).

In 2011/12 he had exhibitions in the USA, and performance works shown in Europe, USA and Australia.

He is a member of the advisory panel for the Electronic Music Foundation, New York and an advisor to the UNESCO funded Symposium on the Future. Dr Paine is a Chief Investigator on several current Australian Research Council grants and Australia Council for the Arts projects.