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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

Thought you might be interested to hear a recent interview I did on ABC Classic FM's New Music Up Late with Julian Day. It features 2 new works for Kyma and live acoustic instrument written by me for the Aurora festival. One of them with my collaborator Michael Atherton, for our ensemble SynC.

http://www.abc.net.au/classic/newmusic/audio/nmuplate_10052008.ram

My flute work Fue Sho starts about 22:10 into the stream and is followed by the interview and then the work Sonic Alchemies with Michael Atherton.

Hope you enjoy

 Garth Paine interview on New Music Up Late: Download

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This is an Interview with Julian Day for the ABC New Music Australia program in 2001 where we discuss the idea of the electronic musician and composer as instrument builder.

 

 Electroacoustic Instrument Building [8:29m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I would be interested in your thoughts - the computer as instrument? The algorithm as instrument? How do you approach instrumentation, composition etc

Look forward to some discussion

Enjoy, Garth

Here is a sneak preview of a new piece, composed and performed by Garth Paine for flute and live electronic processing using the Capybara, Kyma system .

 

 Atmospheric Ripple [10:11m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The piece was premiered at the New York Electronic Arts Festival on June 4, 2007. The concert was produced by EMF Productions: Electronics & Virtuosity

This new piece will be included on a new CD from SynC (Garth Paine and Michael Atherton) later this year.

Enjoy, Garth

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There are a number of very interesting short videos on youtube of artists using Max/MSP/Jitter to composer/perform musical and inter-media works. I thought I'd place a few of them here as I would like to reference them, and probably add to them in the future and I thought it might interest others.

Here is Luke DuBois

here is a work for Violin Luke did the visual programming for

Jamie Lidell talks about MAX/MSP

Here is an example of his performance - multiplying his own voice using Max/MSP

A composition for Max/msp/jitter and Saxaphone

Jonny Greenwood Max/MSP patch #2 - using Max/MSp to process the guitar live

This is a nice example of adapting simple tools (A cheap laser pointer, a solar panel and a clear vase filled with water are transformed into a music controller) and applying the flexability of MAX/MSP to develop some fun music interfaces, Includes demonstrations of amp modulation, amp and freq mod and a more complex mapping as well

Here is a sneak preview of a new CD of material for ancient acoustic instruments (played by Michael Atherton) and live electronic processing using the Capybara, Kyma system , and their new Cross-Synthesis tools

 

 Al Anbiq Dialogue [1:52m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The CD should be released later this year

Enjoy, Garth

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This is an Interview with Julian Day for ABC's New Music Australia program a few years ago where we discuss the idea of the electronic musician, composer as instrument builder.

Enjoy, Garth

Available as Podcast at http://www.activatedspace.com/blog/?feed=rss2

Also available here

 

 NMA Interview - Instrument Making: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download