Garth Paine

Garth Paine is internationally regarded as an innovator in the field of interactivity in electronic music and media arts that’s notable for his composition for several music scores for dance generated through video tracking of the choreography, and more recently using Bio-Sensing on the dancers body which made his work notable in Australia, Europe, Japan, USA, Canada, UK, Hong Kong and New Zealand.

Currently a currently Senior Lecturer in Sound Technologies at the University of Western Sydney he graduated after gaining hisPhD in interactive immersive environments from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia in 2003, and completed a Graduate Diploma in software engineering in the following year at Swinburne University. All a long way from his Bachelor of classical Flute performance from the conservatorium of Tasmania. Being known for his work made him selected as ne of ten creative professionals internationally for exhibition in the 10th New York Digital Salon.

Map2
Map2 is an interactive installation that interacts with sound wave that was created by Garth Paine and was programmed by Dr.Ioannis Zannos.It works by interacting different sound wave and frequency by the person moving his hand over the installation using real-time music synthesis and video sensing techniques to create a real-time sound environment. It was created to show the impact of humans towards their environment. It was exhibited in Musical Instrument Museum, Berlin from December 1999- January 2000.