Garth Paine and Michael Atherton - SynC - performing Sonic Alchemy’s at the opening of the Virtual, Interactive, Performance, Research Environment (VIPRE) at the University of Western Sydney - a new research lab established by Garth Paine over the last 3 years that houses first class 20 channels 3D audio spatialisation facilities, large animation screens - DLP projectors, MoCAP etc for research into interactive systems in the arts.

See vipre.uws.edu.au/ and vipre.uws.edu.au/tiem/

SynC performing Sonic Alchemies from Garth Paine on Vimeo.

Thanks to Jon Drummond for editing this together

/ImMApp,/ a digital application designed to offer an alternative perspective on sound art practices has been developed as a PhD thesis by J Milo Taylor at the CRiSAP Research Unit (Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice at the University of the Arts London. Some documentation of the ImMApp: Ver 0.2: Installation Environment is available on VIMEO:

ImMApp: Ver 0.2: Installation Environment from j milo taylor on Vimeo.

Garth had to make many trips into the field to gather the material for his new acousmatic work.

I have always loved the The Bowed Piano Ensemble. They herald from Music at Colorado College, under the direction of Stephen Scott

There is also an interview on New Music Box and a nice video of a performance HERE

This video of Margaret Leng Tan is a truly amazing pianist and an expert in 20th century performance techniques - this video is an excellent summary of some of these techniques

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Audioboo is a look at the future of mobile reporting, and even possibly dictation on the go for the busy executive

Walking through Audioboo from Mark Rock on Vimeo.

The Thinking Through the Body project will be at Carriage Works for the week of July 27, 2009.

We will have some workshops on the weekend if you are interested in seeing what is going on.

If you would like to know more, go to
Thinking Through The Body Blog

I will be at PICA in Perth presenting the interactive dance work Darker Edge of Night with Hellen Sky from August 4 to August 12, 2009.

Would be more than happy to share our developments with people in Perth and to give a talk if it seems appropriate, so feel free to drop me a line.

Melbourne to Belfast 21st August

ISEA, Belfast, Ireland 23th August to 2nd September

Limerick University and Soundings Festival - 9th and 10th September

Fly to NYC 12th September stay until 17th October
Ear to the Earth is October 9 & 10
Work with Joel Chadabe on TIEM project
Some talks and performances - TBA

NYC to Montreal 17th October stay until 7th November
Work with Marcelo Wanderley and Possibly Axel Mulder on TIEM project
Some talks and performances - TBA

Fly to Phoenix. Arizona 7th November stay until 23rd December
Share research on realtime MoCAP – OSC developments
Some talks and performances - TBA

Fly San Francisco around the 23rd of December

S. F. to Melbourne 3rd January.