Garth Paine
Encyclopedia
Garth Paine is a musician
, composer
, installation art
ist, interactive systems designer
and academic.
in 2003, examining Unencumbered Human Movement in Interactive Immersive Environments, which was some of the earliest multi-dimensional sonification
of full body human movement via the use of video tracking
. Along with Todd Winkler, Garth Paine was one of the first users of the Very Nervous System developed by David Rokeby
. This research led to a number of interactive installation works, MAP1 in 1998, commissioned by the Next Wave Festival
, MAP2 in 1999/2000 commissioned by the Musical Instrument Museum
, Berlin
for their millennium
celebrations and Gestation, exhibited by RMIT Gallery
, reviewed here. Gestation was the outcome of an Australia Council for the Arts, New Media Art Fellowship, and additional support from Cinemedia's Digital Media Fund. Gestation was also exhibited as part of the 10th New York Digital Salon. Further works include REEDS, commissioned by the Melbourne International Arts Festival
, which sonifies local weather phenomena. The gallery version, PlantA has been shown at NIME03
, Montreal
, and ICAD 2004, Sydney Opera House
.
Garth Paine is particularly fascinated with sound as an exhibitable object. In addition to the works listed above, this passion has led to a considerable body of work for dance
generated through video tracking of the choreography
, especially with Hellen Sky and Company in Space, which have toured internationally. Paine's development and use of interactive systems has earned him an internationally reputation as an innovator
in the field of interactivity
in new media art
s. His immersive interactive environments have been exhibited in Australia
, Europe
, UK
, Ireland
, Japan
, USA
, Hong Kong
and New Zealand
. He is often invited to run international workshops on interactivity for musical performance and commissioned to develop interactive system for realtime musical composition
for interactive dance and theatre
performances. Recent works include, Darker edge of Night with Hellen Sky, and Thinking Through the Body
He has been part of the organising and peer review
panels for the International Conference On New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) since it’s inception and twice invited as guest editor of Organised Sound
, a pre-eminent international journal on music technology
published by Cambridge University Press
.
He has been selected as one of ten creative professionals internationally for exhibition in the 10th New York Digital Salon; DesignX Critical Reflections, and as a millennium leader of innovation by the German Keyboard Magazine
in 2000. Dr Paine has been awarded the Australia Council for the Arts New Media Arts Fellowship at RMIT University in 2000, and The RMIT Innovation Research Award in 2002.
He is a member of the advisory panel for the Electronic Music Foundation
, New York and one of 17 advisors to the UNESCO
funded Symposium on the Future, a project focused on formulating an evolving set of principles (theory), that describes a taxonomy
/ design space of electronic musical instrument
s.
Dr Paine was the only Australian artist selected in 2004 for the Sonic Difference exhibition at the Biennale of Electronic Arts, Perth, where he premiered his work Endangered Sounds which questions the validity of patenting sound marks..
Garth Paine was a freelance sound art
ist for 18 years, during which time his company Activated Space designed permanent interactive and sound installations in the Melbourne Museum
, Eureka Stockade
Centre, The Jewish Museum of Australia
, and the Immigration Museum, Melbourne
, and composing music for film
, dance and theatre.
Dr Paine moved into academia
in 2002 as lecturer in Music Technology and Innovation at De Montfort University
, UK. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Music Technology, and Research Associate MARCS Auditory Research labs and director of the Virtual, Interactive, Performance Research Environment VIPRE at the University of Western Sydney
. He was also Head of Program - Electronic Arts (2003–2005) at the University of Western Sydney, Sydney
, Australia
.
Dr Paine’s ensemble SynC, with Michael Atherton acts as a platform for research into new interfaces for electronic music
performance. SynC has performed in, Paris (2006), New York (2007), Liquid Architecture (2007), Aurora festival (2006, 2008), and The Australian New Music Network concert series (2008). In 2009, Garth Paine performed at the Soundings Festival, Ireland
, and the Ear to the Earth Festival in New York.
He is a member of the advisory panel for the Electronic Music Foundation, New York and an advisor to the UNESCO funded Symposium on the Future. Dr Paine is a Chief Investigator on several current Australian Research Council
grants.
His work can be found at http://www.activatedspace.com
2. The Soundings Festival, Limerik, Ireland (2009)
3. The Australian New Music Network (2008)
4. Liquid Architecture Festival (2008)
5. New York Electronic Arts Festival (2007)
6. Camden Haven Music Festival (2007)
7. Aurora Festival of New Music and ABC Classic FM live broadcast, 2006
9. Agora/Résonances Music Festival and NIME06, Paris, France, 2006
10. Intimate Excursions–performance with Ass/Professor Curtis Bahn, NIME 05 conference, Vancouver
12. Black Box, Brisbane, Feb 2005
13. BEAP04, Biennale of Electronic Arts, Perth, 2004
14. NIME04 conference, Shizuoka Uni, Hamamatsu, 2004 (Japan)
15. Songlines Festival, Blue Mountains, Sydney, 2004
16. ICAD conference, Studio Theatre, Sydney Opera House, 2004
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
, composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
, installation art
Installation art
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...
ist, interactive systems designer
Interactive Systems Engineering
Interactive systems engineering is considered as an interdisciplinary field with computer engineering, systems engineering, interaction design, software development, aesthetic, ethnography, psychology and usability factors involved...
and academic.
Biography
Dr. Garth Paine received his PhD from RMIT UniversityRMIT University
RMIT University is an Australian public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. It has two branches, referred to as RMIT University in Australia and RMIT International University in Vietnam....
in 2003, examining Unencumbered Human Movement in Interactive Immersive Environments, which was some of the earliest multi-dimensional sonification
Sonification
Sonification, a form of auditory display, is the use of non-speech audio to convey information or perceptualize data. Auditory perception has high temporal and pressure resolution, which opens up possibilities for it as an alternative or complement to visualization techniques.For example, the...
of full body human movement via the use of video tracking
Video tracking
Video tracking is the process of locating a moving object over time using a camera. It has a variety of uses, some of which are: human-computer interaction, security and surveillance, video communication and compression, augmented reality, traffic control, medical imaging and video editing...
. Along with Todd Winkler, Garth Paine was one of the first users of the Very Nervous System developed by David Rokeby
David Rokeby
David Rokeby is an artist who has been making works of electronic, video and installation art since 1982.His early work Very Nervous System is acknowledged as a pioneering work of interactive art, translating physical gestures into real-time interactive sound environments...
. This research led to a number of interactive installation works, MAP1 in 1998, commissioned by the Next Wave Festival
Next Wave Festival
is a biennial festival based in Melbourne, Australia, which promotes and showcases the work of young and emerging artists. Encouraging interdisciplinary practice, Next Wave fosters the creation and presentation of works by artists aged 16 to 30 working across a broad range of art forms, including...
, MAP2 in 1999/2000 commissioned by the Musical Instrument Museum
Musical Instrument Museum
The Musical Instrument Museum is a music museum in central Brussels, Belgium. It is part of the Royal Museums for Art and History and internationally renowned for its collection of over 1,500 instruments.-History:...
, Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
for their millennium
Millennium
A millennium is a period of time equal to one thousand years —from the Latin phrase , thousand, and , year—often but not necessarily related numerically to a particular dating system....
celebrations and Gestation, exhibited by RMIT Gallery
RMIT Gallery
Storey Hall is home to RMIT Gallery, a public art gallery, and is located at 342–344 Swanston Street in Melbourne, Australia. It is part of the RMIT City campus of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology ....
, reviewed here. Gestation was the outcome of an Australia Council for the Arts, New Media Art Fellowship, and additional support from Cinemedia's Digital Media Fund. Gestation was also exhibited as part of the 10th New York Digital Salon. Further works include REEDS, commissioned by the Melbourne International Arts Festival
Melbourne International Arts Festival
Melbourne Festival is a celebration of dance, theatre, music, visual arts, multimedia, outdoor and free events held for 17 days each October in a number of venues across Melbourne, Australia.-History:...
, which sonifies local weather phenomena. The gallery version, PlantA has been shown at NIME03
New Interfaces for Musical Expression
New Interfaces for Musical Expression, also known as NIME, is an international conference dedicated to scientific research on the development of new technologies for musical expression and artistic performance...
, Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, and ICAD 2004, Sydney Opera House
Sydney Opera House
The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in the Australian city of Sydney. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, finally opening in 1973 after a long gestation starting with his competition-winning design in 1957...
.
Garth Paine is particularly fascinated with sound as an exhibitable object. In addition to the works listed above, this passion has led to a considerable body of work for dance
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
generated through video tracking of the choreography
Choreography
Choreography is the art of designing sequences of movements in which motion, form, or both are specified. Choreography may also refer to the design itself, which is sometimes expressed by means of dance notation. The word choreography literally means "dance-writing" from the Greek words "χορεία" ...
, especially with Hellen Sky and Company in Space, which have toured internationally. Paine's development and use of interactive systems has earned him an internationally reputation as an innovator
Innovator
An innovator in a general sense, is a person or an organization who is one of the first to introduce into reality something better than before. That often opens up a new area for others and achieves an innovation.-History:...
in the field of interactivity
Interactivity
In the fields of information science, communication, and industrial design, there is debate over the meaning of interactivity. In the "contingency view" of interactivity, there are three levels:...
in new media art
New media art
New media art is a genre that encompasses artworks created with new media technologies, including digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual art, Internet art, interactive art, computer robotics, and art as biotechnology...
s. His immersive interactive environments have been exhibited in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, USA
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
and New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
. He is often invited to run international workshops on interactivity for musical performance and commissioned to develop interactive system for realtime musical composition
Musical composition
Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating a new piece of music. People who practice composition are called composers.- Musical compositions :...
for interactive dance and theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
performances. Recent works include, Darker edge of Night with Hellen Sky, and Thinking Through the Body
He has been part of the organising and peer review
Peer review
Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...
panels for the International Conference On New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) since it’s inception and twice invited as guest editor of Organised Sound
Organised Sound
Organised Sound is an international peer-reviewed academic journal which focuses on the rapidly developing methods and issues arising from the use of technology in music today...
, a pre-eminent international journal on music technology
Music technology
Music technology is a term that refers to all forms of technology involved with the musical arts, particularly the use of electronic devices and computer software to facilitate playback, recording, composition, storage and performance. This subject is taught at many different educational levels,...
published by Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world...
.
He has been selected as one of ten creative professionals internationally for exhibition in the 10th New York Digital Salon; DesignX Critical Reflections, and as a millennium leader of innovation by the German Keyboard Magazine
Keyboard Magazine
Keyboard Magazine is a magazine that originally covered electronic keyboard instruments and keyboardists, though with the advent of computer based recording and audio technology, they have added digital music technology to their regular coverage, including those not strictly pertaining to the...
in 2000. Dr Paine has been awarded the Australia Council for the Arts New Media Arts Fellowship at RMIT University in 2000, and The RMIT Innovation Research Award in 2002.
He is a member of the advisory panel for the Electronic Music Foundation
Electronic Music Foundation
Electronic Music Foundation is a not-for-profit 501 organization that produces events, publishes and disseminates media and information, and provides access to materials relevant to the history and creative potential of electronic music....
, New York and one of 17 advisors to the UNESCO
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...
funded Symposium on the Future, a project focused on formulating an evolving set of principles (theory), that describes a taxonomy
Taxonomy
Taxonomy is the science of identifying and naming species, and arranging them into a classification. The field of taxonomy, sometimes referred to as "biological taxonomy", revolves around the description and use of taxonomic units, known as taxa...
/ design space of electronic musical instrument
Musical instrument
A musical instrument is a device created or adapted for the purpose of making musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can serve as a musical instrument—it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument. The history of musical instruments dates back to the...
s.
Dr Paine was the only Australian artist selected in 2004 for the Sonic Difference exhibition at the Biennale of Electronic Arts, Perth, where he premiered his work Endangered Sounds which questions the validity of patenting sound marks..
Garth Paine was a freelance sound art
Sound art
Sound art is a diverse group of art practices that considers wide notions of sound, listening and hearing as its predominant focus. There are often distinct relationships forged between the visual and aural domains of art and perception by sound artists....
ist for 18 years, during which time his company Activated Space designed permanent interactive and sound installations in the Melbourne Museum
Melbourne Museum
Melbourne Museum is located in the Carlton Gardens in Melbourne, Australia, adjacent the Royal Exhibition Building.It is the largest museum in the Southern Hemisphere, and is a venue of Museum Victoria, which also operates the Immigration Museum and Scienceworks Museum.The museum has seven main...
, Eureka Stockade
Eureka Stockade
The Eureka Rebellion of 1854 was an organised rebellion by gold miners which occurred at Eureka Lead in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The Battle of Eureka Stockade was fought on 3 December 1854 and named for the stockade structure erected by miners during the conflict...
Centre, The Jewish Museum of Australia
Jewish Museum of Australia
The Jewish Museum of Australia is a community museum, which aims to explore and share the Jewish experience in Australia and benefit Australia's diverse society...
, and the Immigration Museum, Melbourne
Immigration Museum, Melbourne
The Immigration Museum is a museum primarily displaying Australia's immigration history. It is located on Flinders Street in Melbourne, Victoria, in the Old Customs House...
, and composing music for film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
, dance and theatre.
Dr Paine moved into academia
Academia
Academia is the community of students and scholars engaged in higher education and research.-Etymology:The word comes from the akademeia in ancient Greece. Outside the city walls of Athens, the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning...
in 2002 as lecturer in Music Technology and Innovation at De Montfort University
De Montfort University
De Montfort University is a public research and teaching university situated in the medieval Old Town of Leicester, England, adjacent to the River Soar and the Leicester Castle Gardens...
, UK. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Music Technology, and Research Associate MARCS Auditory Research labs and director of the Virtual, Interactive, Performance Research Environment VIPRE at the University of Western Sydney
University of Western Sydney
The University of Western Sydney, also known as UWS, is a multi-campus university in the Greater Western region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
. He was also Head of Program - Electronic Arts (2003–2005) at the University of Western Sydney, Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
.
Dr Paine’s ensemble SynC, with Michael Atherton acts as a platform for research into new interfaces for electronic music
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
performance. SynC has performed in, Paris (2006), New York (2007), Liquid Architecture (2007), Aurora festival (2006, 2008), and The Australian New Music Network concert series (2008). In 2009, Garth Paine performed at the Soundings Festival, Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
, and the Ear to the Earth Festival in New York.
He is a member of the advisory panel for the Electronic Music Foundation, New York and an advisor to the UNESCO funded Symposium on the Future. Dr Paine is a Chief Investigator on several current Australian Research Council
Australian Research Council
The Australian Research Council is the Australian Government’s main agency for allocating research funding to academics and researchers in Australian universities. Its mission is to advance Australia’s capacity to undertake research that brings economic, social and cultural benefit to the...
grants.
His work can be found at http://www.activatedspace.com
Recent presentations of, installation and performance works (2004-09)
1. Ear to the Earth Festival, New York (2009)2. The Soundings Festival, Limerik, Ireland (2009)
3. The Australian New Music Network (2008)
4. Liquid Architecture Festival (2008)
5. New York Electronic Arts Festival (2007)
6. Camden Haven Music Festival (2007)
7. Aurora Festival of New Music and ABC Classic FM live broadcast, 2006
9. Agora/Résonances Music Festival and NIME06, Paris, France, 2006
10. Intimate Excursions–performance with Ass/Professor Curtis Bahn, NIME 05 conference, Vancouver
12. Black Box, Brisbane, Feb 2005
13. BEAP04, Biennale of Electronic Arts, Perth, 2004
14. NIME04 conference, Shizuoka Uni, Hamamatsu, 2004 (Japan)
15. Songlines Festival, Blue Mountains, Sydney, 2004
16. ICAD conference, Studio Theatre, Sydney Opera House, 2004
Selected publications
- Paine, G. (2009). Towards unified design guidelines for new interfaces for musical expression. Organised Sound, 14(2), 143-156.
- Paine, G. (2009). Pools, Pixes and Potentials - Biodance. Paper presented at the ISEA, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- Paine, G. (2008). Gesture and Morphology in Laptop Music Performance. In R. T. Dean (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music (pp. 299–329). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Paine, G. (2008). Noise and Texture, towards and Asian influences composition approach to the concert flute. In M. Atherton & B. Crossman (Eds.), Music of the Spirit: Asian-Pacific Musical Identity (pp. 139–149). Australian Music Centre.
- Lem, A., Paine, G., & Drummond, J. (2008). A Dynamic Sonification Device in Creative Music Therapy. Paper presented at the Research Matters, Making a Difference, Sydney.
- Paine, G. (2008). Interfacing for dynamic morphology in computer music performance. Paper presented at the Australasian Computer Music Conference, Sydney.
- Paine, G., & Sky, H. (2008). Pools, Pixes and Potentials. Paper presented at the World Dance Alliance Conference, Brisbane, Australia.
- Paine, G. (2007). Playing and Hearing Sonic Environments. In R. Bandt, M. Duffy, & D. MacKinnon (Eds.), Hearing Places: Sound, Place, Time and Culture (pp. 348–368). Newcastle, England: Cambridge Scholars Press.
- Paine, G. (2007). Interfacing for dynamic morphology in computer music performance. Paper presented at the International Conference on Music Communication Science (ICOMCS), Sydney.
- Paine, G. (2007). Sonic Immersion: Interactive Engagement in Real-Time Immersive Environments. SCAN Journal of Media Arts and Culture (online), 4(1).
- Paine, G., Stevenson, I., & Pearce, A. (2007). The Thummer Mapping Project (ThuMP). Paper presented at the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME07), New York City, NY.
- Paine, G. (2006). Interactive, Responsive Environments: a Broader Artistic Context. In Engineering nature : art & consciousness in the post-biological era (pp. 312–334). Chicago: Intellect LTD.
- Paine, G. (2006). The Thummer Mapping Project - ThuMP. Paper presented at the ENGAGE 06, Sydney.
- Paine, G., & Atherton, M. (2006). Parallel Lines [Audio CD]. Tucson, Arizona: Celestial Harmonies.
- Paine, G. (2005). Sonic Immersion: Interactive Engagement in Realtime Responsive Environments. Paper presented at the e-Performance and Plugins Conference, Sydney.
- Paine, G. (2005). Endangered Sounds, a sound project. Organised Sound Journal, 10(2), 149-162.
- Paine, G. (2005). Artificial Intelligence Systems as a solution to subjective video sensing in Contemporary Performing Arts. Paper presented at the CAESS Conference, Sydney.
Selected Funding (2005/7)
- (2007) Research Partnerships Program, UWS, Music Therapy Project - $10,000
- (2007) Industry Funding, Nordoff-Robins, Music Therapy Project- $10,000
- (2006) ARC Linkage Project (Paine LP0667671, TIEM), (2006:$35,984, 2007:$46,708, 2008:$47,418)
- (2006) Research Infrastructure Funding, UWS, Ahha Project - $232,000
- (2006) ARC & MH&NRC (Burnham et al. TS0669874) From Talking Heads to Thinking Heads: A Research Platform for Human Communication Science (A$3.4M)
- (2006) ARC LEIF, See Hear! Multimodal Recording Analysis (Stevens et al. - LE0668448, 2006 : $150,000)
- (2005) Research Infrastructure Funding, UWS, VIPRE Project - $214,816
- (2005) Research Partnerships Program, UWS, ThuMP Project - $35,000
- (2005) Industry Funding, Jammertronics, ThuMP Project- $35,000
Other Current Research Activity
Contributions to the broader research community including Editorial/Curatorial roles, and community engagement:- Member of the Technical Advisory Panel for the Electronic Music Foundation (NYC)
- Board member of the Australian Sound Design Project.
- Member of HCSNet (www.hcsnet.edu.au) the ARC Network in Human Communication Science
Recent Press
- Realtime Arts: ARTISTS [AS] EDUCATORS: SOUND
- Interview with Garth Paine: Composing Potentials
- Interactivity in Performance: Art as Research (WISP)
- Innovation :in a word
- The Bulletin (July 2006), Music taking the world by storm