Projects – Sonicobjects

Syren for Port Jackson

Syren for Port Jackson plied the waters of Sydney Harbour, delivering a unique location-sensitive, immersive audio experience aboard the M.V. Regal. The Syren project is part of the AudioNomad R+D project ~ a collaboration between the Artist Nigel Helyer and the Scientists Daniel Woo and Chris Rizos of the University of New South Wales. The…
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Factory Spirit.

Factory Spirit was a miniature public sculpture installed in the boundary wall of a major Buddhist Temple in Chiang Mai (Northern Thailand as part of the Chiang Mai Social Installation Festival 1993. Steel, Glass, model figurines and vehicles. 350mm x 250mm x 350mm – x2 units. This miniature public sculpture consisted of two factory/showrooms installed…
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Swarm

Swarm is the latest development of a series of interactive Theremin-based sound sculptures (see ‘Ariel’, ‘Caliban’s Children’ and ‘Quint de Loup’). ‘Swarm’ is conceived to operate outdoors and is the first of the series to be solar-powered ~ the work is installed in the Werribee Mansion Park as part of the Helen Lermpriere Sculpture Award.…
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What Survives

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Spinner

Spinner was created for the McClelland Sculpture Park (near Melbourne, Victoria) as part of the Sculpture Award 2005. Spinner is a crystalline form with a symmetry of six and is designed as a passive kinetic work (i.e. it can be rolled on its axis). The form is locked together by tension cables acting against a…
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Lotus

L]otus is a commission for an environmental audio sculpture that is moored in the lake at ECU’s Joondalup campus. Left – Visualisation image, right – Lotus on-site and talking poetry. “Lotus” is a development of my previous solar-powered environmental audio works and is directly based upon the functional components of “Haiku” but here deployed within…
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KellerRadioActive at IASKA

KelleRadioActive ~ IASKA (October ~ December 2005). The history of broadcast media and communications technology has developed at an alarming pace over the last century and it is easy to forget the central role that radio has played in rural Australian communities, both as a form of entertainment and as a vital link. One of…
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Magnus Opus

Monsanto may have stolen the Native Medicines Novalis may own your cell-line and Microsoft may have locked up all the picture archives. But we’ve got your number! Visit Magnus Opus
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Preaching to the Converter

Exhibited at the Art Gallery of NSW during Perspecta 1985 Preaching to the Converter combined Triwall Cardboard, Velvet and Cast Iron in a seven-metre flow across the Museum floor. A stage set of gigantic proportions, or rather a normal room viewed from the perspective of a child. Castles and reverberatory furnaces, a liquid river of…
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Virtual Spirit

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Models

Ah, it now seems a luxury to have had the time to play around with cardboard and glue, making miniature structures! Model for Mute in Talk Town.
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AudioNomad + Syren

[dropcap character=”T”]he Audio Nomad project is an exciting development in Australian Research and Development that combines the skills and talents of Artists with those of Scientists in an imaginative collaboration that is developing technologies to support and deliver creative public sound-art events. Our specific interests are in location sensitive, mobile audio systems that generate immersive…
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Theorem

Between June 2004 and February 2005 Nigel Helyer worked as an Artist in Residence at the Paul Scherrer Institut, one of Switzerland’s largest research laboratories. The Following is extracted from the Institut publication ‘Aktuell’. How might an Artist approach the Paul Scherrer Institut, which by any standards, is a complex intellectual and social organism? My…
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LifeBoat

The lab floating in Oslo fjord. LifeBoat is a prosaic title indicating both the physical reality (the project is contained within a fully weatherproofed ship’s lifeboat) and somewhat more conceptually, as the lifeboat has become home to a Biotechnology lab; a home to the processes of life itself. On a metaphorical level, this project is…
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An Unrequited Place

Year : 1992 Exhibited. As part of the Working in Public project, John Barrett-Lennard and ArtSpace, Sydney, 1992. Materials. Steel Bell, Performer, Radiophonic Broadcast. Dimensions. 25m x 12m overall installation ~ performance space with Nationwide live broadcast at Midnight for 21 days. Nelia Justo tolls the midnight bell. Notes. The Story so far…Catalogue text for…
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