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A selection of articles, interviews and features covering Garth Paine's work as a composer, sound artist and acoustic ecologist — from media opera and smartphone performance to the XPRIZE Rainforest-winning Limelight project.
- Professor's acoustic research repurposed into relaxing listening sessions for all
How Paine's bioacoustic field recordings have been turned into immersive public listening sessions, including in ASU's Wellness Dome.
- Entrepreneurs, researchers among 2025 Founders’ Day awardees
Recognition of Paine's contribution to the XPRIZE Rainforest-winning Limelight project as part of ASU's 2025 Founders' Day honorees.
- XPRIZE Rainforest Names Limelight Rainforest Winner of Biodiversity Tech Competition
Announcement of Team Limelight Rainforest as the $5M grand prize winner of the XPRIZE Rainforest competition.
- Team wins $10M XPRIZE Rainforest competition for novel solution
Coverage of Team Limelight's win, including Paine's role developing the bioacoustic recorders used to measure species density from rainforest soundscapes.
- ASU researchers work to save the rainforest by putting a new value on it
A look at the ASU team behind Team Limelight (then Team Waponi) and their approach to valuing rainforest biodiversity ahead of the XPRIZE final.
- ASU professor reimagines the concert experience
Profile of Paine's work using audience smartphones as performance instruments, including the development of Future Perfect and FraKture.
- Pine cones rattling: Sound installation brings attention to environment
Coverage of Happy Brackets sound installations and Paine's view that the arts are 'the most powerful way to tell the story of ecology.'
- Monsoon Stories 2019: Acoustic ecology
Radio interview on recording and composing with the sounds of the Arizona monsoon season.
- Listening to the Sounds of Environmental Change
Feature on Paine's acoustic ecology research and the role of sound in tracking ecosystem health.
- Listening to nature: How sound can help us understand environmental change
Paine's own essay on how environmental sound can serve as an indicator of ecological change and a tool for sustainability.
Watch & Listen
Podcasts & Video
Long-form conversations and on-camera features on listening, acoustic ecology and Paine's work across research, performance and conservation.
- Sounding the alarm: A new defense for stopping poachers
On-camera feature on Paine's bioacoustic work with the Phoenix Zoo to detect poachers' gunshots and help protect jaguars in Costa Rica's rainforests.
- Wellness Dome sessions provide public immersive sound display
On-camera segment on the free public listening sessions Paine created in ASU's immersive Wellness Dome, using rainforest recordings to promote focused, restorative listening.
- Team Limelight Rainforest — Faculty Research Achievement Award
Video recognition of Paine and Team Limelight Rainforest's XPRIZE-winning bioacoustic technology at ASU's Founders' Day awards.
- A Life or Death Opportunity
A conversation on passive, active and directed listening — and the near-fatal field recording trip that reshaped how Paine listens to the world.
- This ASU composer wants to borrow your phone — and make it part of a live symphony concert performance
Radio feature on Paine's smartphone-based audience instrument technology, used for the first time alongside a live symphony orchestra.
- Ep. 48: Capturing the Songs of a Changing Climate
Paine discusses recording shifting soundscapes — including a transformed ecosystem at Joshua Tree's Barker Dam — as climate change reshapes the natural world.
- The Science of Sound With Garth Paine
An on-camera conversation about sound as an experiential medium and Paine's work as a composer and acoustic ecologist.
- Data Cult Audio 0149 — Garth Paine
A long-form conversation on electronic music, sound sculpture and Paine's work in interactive media and the Acoustic Ecology Lab.
- Hearing Climate Change: An Arizona Researcher's Quest to Understand Climate Through Sound
Field recording at the Desert Botanical Garden, where Paine explains how everyday soundscapes can reveal — and help predict — environmental change.
- Listening to and Interactive with Nature
An early conversation with Scot Gresham-Lancaster on Paine's Acoustic Ecology Project and interactive environments shaped by listener presence.