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.

After 3 years of hard work, VIPRE is at last about to be let loose upon the world.

Invitation to the Opening of the VIPRE (Virtual, Interactive, Performance Research Environment)
at MARCS Auditory Laboratories, University of Western Sydney
(a joint initiative with the School of Communication Arts).
Our new online intermedia journal soundsRite, will also be launched.

Opening Date: Wednesday May 20 2009.

Invitation Circular to Arts Industry and External Research Colleagues, from Garth Paine and Roger Dean. 11.45 for event commencing 12.00.

Dear colleague,
You are invited to the launch of our new facilities at the University of Western Sydney Bankstown Campus, Milperra (Bldg 9). The event includes performance, studio sound and intermedia works, presentations of the facilities, and discussion of their creative and research potentials, and the opportunities they present for collaboration.

VIPRE was initiated by Garth Paine, with the collaboration of Kate Stevens and Roger Dean (of MARCS Auditory Laboratories) and the School of Communication Arts. It is a facility for research and creative work in sound, image and action; and equally a site for practice-led research and research-led practice. It comprises a performance space with dance floor and multichannel (20) 3D sound diffusion system, motion capture and bio-sensing systems and multiscreen projection, which can be controlled from an audio/recording studio, and/or animation studio. The audio/recording room also provides multichannel spatialisation facilities. All rooms are networked for audio, video and data to allow all facilities to be brought to bear on a single realtime project.

Initial projects housed at VIPRE have included multi-modal interactive dance projects with Hellen Sky utilising bio-sensing and realtime motion capture, and subtle bio-sensing for interactive installation works by George Khut. VIPRE also houses the largest range of new interfaces for electronic musical performance in Australia, an area of current ARC Linkage research. Amongst the research purposes of MARCS for which VIPRE is being used are also studies of dance cognition, and inter-personal interaction during improvisation in sound (ARC Linkage and Discovery funding). The performance space has a Yamaha Midi-Grand piano, permitting acquisition of multiple streams of real-time performance data (midi, audio, video, physiological) which can be used in time-series and other in depth analyses of their relationships. Amongst the interfaces between research and creative work are the spatialisation resources. Little is known about the cognition of sound spatialisation in performance, yet it is central to contemporary electroacoustic creative work. Reciprocally, the recording/production studio facilities at VIPRE are important as tools for creative work, yet also for production of empirical materials for cognitive study.

The purpose of our event is to introduce our guests and UWS colleagues to the potentials of VIPRE, so as to facilitate research collaboration with our external visitors, and the use of the facilities by our fellow UWS academics. To this end the event is structured in two parts as summarised below. As an external industry or research peer, you are invited for the first session, but are welcome also to stay for the later part intended primarily for our internal colleagues. Space within VIPRE is limited, so we request that you RSVP if you intend to join us. There will be a marquee outside the facilities where we can take refreshments, and chat informally.

The outline schedule is below. A link to a map of the campus is at http://www.uws.edu.au/campuses_structure/cas/campuses/bankstown; (take the Henry Lawson Drive exit from the M5 if coming by car; the campus is 1km away).

Please rsvp to Karen McConachie at MARCS: k.mcconachie@uws.edu.au.

Best wishes
Garth Paine (ga.paine@uws.edu.au)

Wednesday 20th May: VIPRE Launch Schedule

12.00- 13.00

Welcome by the Dean of the College of Arts, Professor Wayne McKenna.
Presentations to External Visitors.

A) Garth : Background, facilities, and Creative Industry and Practice-led research opportunities.

B) Roger : Other research possibilities and research-led practice opportunities; launch of soundsRite (w. Hazel Smith)

13.00-14.00
Sandwich Lunch, soft drinks (outside space). Spatialised audio works running in spatialisation studio. AV works on display in performance space, including soundsRite.

Performance in the space by guest artist Hellen Sky w Garth Paine; and SynC - Garth Paine and Michael Atherton.

14.45-15.15
Tea (outside space). Spatialised audio works running, including works by UWS alumni such as Roger Dean (with David Worrall and Greg White), Jon Drummond, Robert Sazdov. AV works from soundsRite on display in animation studio space.

Tea (outside space). Spatialised audio works runnin, including works by UWS alumni such as Roger Dean (with David Worrall and Greg White), Jon Drummond, Robert Sazdov. AV works from soundsRite on display in animation studio space.

15.15- 16.15
Welcome by Director of MARCS, Prof Denis Burnham, and Head of School of Communication Arts, Prof Lynette Sheridan-Burns.
Presentations to Internal UWS staff (i.e. different range and emphasis from presentations to external visitors).
A) Garth : Background, facilities.
B) Roger : Research possibilities and research-led practice opportunities; launch of soundsRite (w.Hazel)
C) Prof. Michael Atherton : Practice-led Research and Creative opportunities.

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