Garth Paine

Composer, Installation Artist, Sound Designer

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Garth Paine is a freelance composer, sound designer and installation artist. He has been commissioned extensively in Australia the United Kingdom and Germany, producing original compositions and sound designs for over 30 film, theatre, dance and installation works in the last ten years.

September 1996 saw his Interactive Virtual Environment installation MQM exhibited at Linden Gallery in Melbourne, creating a virtual video and audio environment controlled by the movement and behaviour patterns of people within it. This work led to a series of installation, the most recent being MAP2. MAP 1 toured in 1999 as a solo exhibition to, Berlin (Germany), Linz (Austria) and Wellington (New Zealand).

In 1999 Garth Paine was composer in residence at the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung (State Institute for Music Research - SIM) in Berlin, exhibiting his installation MAP1 in the Musical Instrument museum, Berlin during the residency. He was commissioned by SIM to produce MAP2, which was exhibited at the Museum for Musical Instrauments, Berlin from December 30, 1999 to January 8, 2000.

Garth was awarded the RMIT, New Media Arts fellowship by the Australia Council for the Arts for 2000, to assist him in the development of realtime interactive sound environments.

In recent years Garth's work has become increasingly involved with the design of sound and interactive exhibitions in museums and galleries. These include the Melbourne Exhibition, the East Supper Space and the Immigration Museum for the Museum of Victoria, the Australian Jewish Museum, the Performing Arts Museum, and the Eureka Stockade Centre.

His formal training includes a Bachelor of Music (Performance) from the

Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, and a two year Sound Engineering Trainee-ship with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He has been Lecturer in Electronic Music at the Conservatorium of Tasmania and RMIT, Melbourne.

The last two years have seen Garth Paine's interactive sound work exhibited at:

1. SIGGRAPH (USA) 1998,
2. Dance Umbrella Festival 1998 (UK),
3. Downloading Downunder Festival 1998 (Amsterdam),
4. Next Wave Festival 1998 (Melbourne, Australia),
5. Melbourne International Festival 1998 (Australia),
6. Art Rage 1998 (Perth, Australia),
7. Australasian Computer Music Conference 1999 (New Zealand),
8. Cyber Arts Festival 1999 (Boston, USA),
9. Interactive Dance and Technology Conference 1999 (Arizona, USA)
10. Staatlichen Instutut für Musikforschung 1999 (Berlin, Germany)
11. Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria)

The showing of his work at Ars Electronic in Linz lead to him being listed as one of twenty people "changing the face of electronic music" by the German Keyboard Magazine.

This year (2000), his work has been shown at

1. The KunstFest Und Kulture Forum in Celebration of the Millennium in Berlin
2. The New Moves Festival, Glasgow
3. GoldSmith College, London
4. Foot Fall Installation, RMIT Department of Constructed Environment
5. Tele- Presence performances at the Hong Kong Festival, and
6. Reeds, His new installation work - Melbourne International Festival
7. Sonic Residues - at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art - curator and Director

His work has ranged across the Museum industry with permanent installations in the:

1. Eureka Stockade Centre, Ballarat
2. Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne
3. Immigration Museum, Melbourne
4. New Museum of Victoria - Carlton

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