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Garth Paine

Assoc Professor
Faculty
TEMPE Campus
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5802
Assoc Professor
Faculty
TEMPE Campus
Mailcode
5802
Assoc Professor
Faculty
TEMPE Campus
Mailcode
5802
Senior Sustainability Scientist
Faculty
TEMPE Campus
Mailcode
5802
Assoc Professor
Faculty
TEMPE Campus
Mailcode
5802
Biography
Garth Paine is a composer, scholar and acoustic ecologist. He crosses art-science boundaries with his community embedded work on environmental listening and creative place-making in addition to his environmental musical works and performances. His research drives toward new approaches to acoustic ecology and the exploration of sound as our lived context including the application of VR in health.
In 2018 he is researcher/artist in residence in Europe at IRCAM (Centre Pompideau) and Center for Arts and Media (ZKM).
His passion for sound as an exhibitable object has given rise to interactive environments where the sonic landscape is generated through gesture, presence and behavior and several music scores for dance works using realtime video tracking and bio-sensing and musical compositions that have been performed in Australia, Europe, Japan, USA, South America, Hong Kong and New Zealand and, in 2014, Korea, Macedonia, France, and UK.
Paine's current research centers around the Listen(n) Project, on acoustic ecology project that focuses on field recording and community building. He co-directs the Acoustic Ecology Lab (AELab@ASU) with Professor Sabine Feisst, which he established in 2016.
He has a long history of composing musical works from his field recordings and engaging in environmental work through sound. Recent examples include the Site Works project at Bundanon, Australia for which he composed the work Presence in the Landscape and his work Becoming Desert for the Listen(n) Symposium concert in 2014.
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 wher he was keynote speaker in 2016. He is on the editorial board of Organised Sound Journal, which he has also guest-edited on several occasions. He 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.
He is an associate professor in interactive sound and digital media in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and associate professor of composition in the School of Music at Arizona State University. From 2012-13, he was interim-director of the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and then associate director in 2013-14. From 2011-2104, he was undergraduate chair for the Digital Culture program. He is affiliate faculty at the Center for Biodiversity Outomes and a senior sustainability scientist with the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institue of Sustainability at ASU.
Recent performances include:
2018
Future Perfect concert work for Ambisonic (HOA), Smartphone spatial audio and VR
Cité International des Arts, Paris
IRCAM, Centre Pompidou, Paris
EMPAC, Troy, New York (USA)
Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG) (Germany)
Conservatoire de Strasbourg (France)
Klingt Gut, Hamburg
Zürich University of the Arts, Switzerland
Metal Music Musical Instrument Museum, Arizona, for B1 Ensemble, live electronics and percussion
2017
Surface Texture Prisms Contemporary Music Festival with Thomas Landschoot (Cello) for solo cello, ensemble & electronics
2016
No Stone Unturned Prisms Contemporary Music Festival, San Diego New Music Players
Becoming Desert Music and Landscape conference, Institute for Electronic Music, Graz
Oscillations Singing Bowl robots exhibited at the CHI2016 Works Gallery, San Jose, California (June 2016) http://art-chi.org
2015
Rainforest Remix – a performance project in partnership with Rainforest Partners and the UN +SocialGood climate campaign to create an immersive musical performance experience of rainforest environments for SxSW Eco (Oct/15). Rainforest Remix will be featured at Texas Earth Day 2016 – this project seeks a broad community engagement with environmental awareness by leveraging the popularity and cultural capital of celebrity DJ’s.
Forrest for flute and live electronics composed for the President’s Showcase (Fall 2014) and also performed at President’s Weekend (Nov’15), the at the Launch of the Biomimicy center (2015).
Oscillations Singing Bowl robots exhibited at the Shaw Centre, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (June 2015)
2015-18
49 Waltzes by John Cage – Interactive media installation around sonic place-making developed with students at Technische Hochschule Ansbach, Germany
Education
- Ph.D., RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia 2003. Dissertation: Unencumbered Human Movement in Interactive Immersive Environments. ISBN: 978-1-4452-0457-4 (2009). Supervisor, Professor David Atkinson.
- Graduate Certificate in IT (Software Engineering, Java and C++), Swinburne University of Technology, Australia (2002)
- B. Mus. Performance - Flute, Conservatorium of Tasmania, University of Tasmania, Australia 1985. Professor David Cubbin, and Dr. Johannes Roose.
Google Scholar
Research Interests
Acoustic ECology
Music and Sound composition
Interactive systems in performance
Embodiment and Agency in interactive performance
New interfaces for Musical Expression
Research Group
I direct the Acoustic Ecology Lab at ASU
Publications
Paine, G. (2017). “Acoustic Ecology 2.0”. Contemporary Music Review (15, Nov. 2017)
Paine, G. (2016). “Ecolisten at the McDowell-Sonoran Preserve,” in Field Institute Insider. Scientific Magazine of the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy, January 2017, co-authored with Sabine Feisst
Paine, G. (2016). “Ecologies of Listening and Presence: Perspectives from a Practitioner ”. Contemporary Music Review (October)
Paine, G. (2015). “Interaction as Material: the techno-somatic dimension”. Organised Sound, 20(1), 82-89. This was an invited article for the twentieth anniversary edition of the Organised Sound Journal from CUP.
Paine, G., (2013) "New Musical Instrument Design Considerations," in MultiMedia, IEEE , vol.20(4), 76-84.
Lem, A., Paine, G. (2011). “Dynamic Sonification as a Free Music Improvisation Tool for Physically Disabled Adults.” Music and Medicine, 3(3), 182-188.
Please see CV for full list
Research Activity
- Paine,Garth Crispan*. CHIF: Listen(n) Project (ASUF 30005923). ASU FDN(11/1/2015 - 10/31/2016).
Courses
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
MTC 323 | Composition |
AME 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MTC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MTC 523 | Advanced Composition |
MTC 590 | Reading and Conference |
AME 593 | Applied Project |
MTC 723 | Advanced Composition |
MTC 790 | Reading and Conference |
AME 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
MTC 323 | Composition |
AME 484 | Internship |
MTC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MTC 523 | Advanced Composition |
AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
MTC 590 | Reading and Conference |
MTC 723 | Advanced Composition |
MTC 790 | Reading and Conference |
AME 792 | Research |
Summer 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
AME 484 | Internship |
AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
Spring 2018 | |
---|---|
Course Number | Course Title |
MTC 323 | Composition |
AME 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MTC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MTC 523 | Advanced Composition |
MTC 590 | Reading and Conference |
MTC 723 | Advanced Composition |
MTC 790 | Reading and Conference |
AME 792 | Research |
AME 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
AME 294 | Special Topics |
MDC 311 | Comp Perf Hybrid Ens |
MTC 323 | Composition |
AME 484 | Internship |
MTC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MTC 523 | Advanced Composition |
MTC 590 | Reading and Conference |
AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
AME 592 | Research |
MTC 723 | Advanced Composition |
AME 784 | Internship |
MTC 790 | Reading and Conference |
AME 792 | Research |
AME 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2017 | |
---|---|
Course Number | Course Title |
AME 484 | Internship |
AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
AME 792 | Research |
Spring 2017 | |
---|---|
Course Number | Course Title |
AME 484 | Internship |
AME 493 | Honors Thesis |
MDC 494 | Special Topics |
AME 494 | Special Topics |
MTC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
AME 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MTC 590 | Reading and Conference |
AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
AME 592 | Research |
MDC 598 | Special Topics |
AME 598 | Special Topics |
MTC 790 | Reading and Conference |
AME 792 | Research |
AME 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2016 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
AME 294 | Special Topics |
MDC 311 | Comp Perf Hybrid Ens |
MTC 323 | Composition |
AME 484 | Internship |
MTC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
AME 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MTC 523 | Advanced Composition |
MTC 590 | Reading and Conference |
AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
AME 592 | Research |
MTC 723 | Advanced Composition |
MTC 790 | Reading and Conference |
AME 792 | Research |
AME 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2016 | |
---|---|
Course Number | Course Title |
AME 484 | Internship |
AME 592 | Research |
AME 593 | Applied Project |
AME 599 | Thesis |
AME 684 | Internship |
AME 792 | Research |
AME 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2016 | |
---|---|
Course Number | Course Title |
MTC 323 | Composition |
AME 385 | Collab Projects & Research I |
AME 386 | Collab Projects & Research II |
AME 484 | Internship |
AME 485 | Digital Culture Capstone I |
AME 486 | Digital Culture Capstone II |
AME 493 | Honors Thesis |
AME 494 | Special Topics |
MDC 494 | Special Topics |
MTC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
AME 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MTC 523 | Advanced Composition |
AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
MTC 590 | Reading and Conference |
AME 592 | Research |
AME 593 | Applied Project |
AME 598 | Special Topics |
MDC 598 | Special Topics |
AME 599 | Thesis |
MTC 723 | Advanced Composition |
MTC 790 | Reading and Conference |
AME 792 | Research |
AME 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2015 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
MDC 311 | Comp Perf Hybrid Ens |
MTC 323 | Composition |
AME 385 | Collab Projects & Research I |
AME 386 | Collab Projects & Research II |
AME 484 | Internship |
AME 485 | Digital Culture Capstone I |
AME 486 | Digital Culture Capstone II |
AME 492 | Honors Directed Study |
AME 493 | Honors Thesis |
MTC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
AME 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MTC 523 | Advanced Composition |
MTC 590 | Reading and Conference |
AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
AME 592 | Research |
MTC 723 | Advanced Composition |
MTC 790 | Reading and Conference |
AME 792 | Research |
AME 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2015 | |
---|---|
Course Number | Course Title |
AME 484 | Internship |
AME 592 | Research |
AME 593 | Applied Project |
AME 599 | Thesis |
AME 684 | Internship |
AME 792 | Research |
AME 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2015 | |
---|---|
Course Number | Course Title |
AME 484 | Internship |
AME 493 | Honors Thesis |
ART 494 | Special Topics |
AME 494 | Special Topics |
MUP 494 | Special Topics |
MTC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
MTC 590 | Reading and Conference |
AME 592 | Research |
AME 593 | Applied Project |
ART 594 | Conference and Workshop |
AME 598 | Special Topics |
MUP 598 | Special Topics |
AME 599 | Thesis |
MTC 790 | Reading and Conference |
AME 792 | Research |
AME 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2014 | |
---|---|
Course Number | Course Title |
MDC 311 | Comp Perf Hybrid Ens |
MTC 323 | Composition |
AME 385 | Collab Projects & Research I |
AME 386 | Collab Projects & Research II |
AME 484 | Internship |
AME 485 | Digital Culture Capstone I |
AME 486 | Digital Culture Capstone II |
AME 492 | Honors Directed Study |
AME 493 | Honors Thesis |
AME 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MTC 523 | Advanced Composition |
AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
AME 592 | Research |
MTC 723 | Advanced Composition |
AME 792 | Research |
AME 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2014 | |
---|---|
Course Number | Course Title |
AME 484 | Internship |
AME 592 | Research |
AME 593 | Applied Project |
AME 599 | Thesis |
AME 684 | Internship |
AME 792 | Research |
AME 799 | Dissertation |
Editorships
Editorial Board Member, Organised Sound Journal, Cambridge University Press
Professional Associations
<p><strong>Program Committee</strong>,</p>
<p>The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME)</p>
<p>International Computer Music Conference (ICMC)</p>
<p>The Australasian Computer Music Conference (ACMC)</p>
<p>The International Workshop of Movement and Computing (MOCO)</p>
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