Meet the Artist
Garth Paine
For over three decades, Paine has built a practice at the intersection of music, technology and the natural world — turning gesture, presence and place into sound, and sound into a way of understanding the environments we live in.
Current Roles
- Professor of Interactive Sound & Digital Media, The GAME School, Arizona State University
- Professor of Composition, School of Music, Dance and Theatre, Arizona State University
- Senior Sustainability Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
- Co-director, Acoustic Ecology Lab, School of Arts, Media and Engineering
Education
- PhD, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia (2003) — "Unencumbered Human Movement in Interactive Immersive Environments"
- B.Mus. Performance (Flute), Conservatorium of Tasmania, University of Tasmania (1985)
Practice & Research
Internationally regarded as an innovator in interactivity for experimental music and media arts, Paine's work explores sound as our lived context — generating sonic landscapes through gesture, presence and behaviour, and creating music scores for dance works using real-time video tracking and biosensing. His research drives toward new approaches to acoustic ecology, including the application of virtual reality in health, and his compositions and installations have been presented across Australia, Europe, Japan, the USA, South America, Hong Kong and New Zealand.
In 2018 he was researcher/artist in residence in Europe at IRCAM (Centre Pompidou, Paris) and the Center for Art and Media (ZKM, Karlsruhe). He is a longtime contributor to the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), where he served as keynote speaker in 2016.
Selected Recognition
- NIME Keynote Speaker, 2016
- Artist/Researcher in Residence, IRCAM, Paris, 2018
- Artist/Researcher in Residence, ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2018
- XPRIZE Rainforest — Team Limelight, winning team, 2024