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SonicDifference Muller
A deep vibration: A small migration Lizzie Muller Standing in Shawn Decker’s sound installation A small migration is like being inside an exploded piano, or more precisely it is like standing inside the moment of explosion. The component parts of the work are suspended around me as though frozen in time. Still, yet full of…
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Sonic Difference Stephens
A sound cause: Endangered Sounds Jasmin Stephens Dr Garth Paine’s highly conceptual installation, Endangered Sounds, raises the alarm concerning the implications of the increasing practice of trade marking and patenting sounds. His serious and meticulous enquiry urges vigilance should the air we breathe and through which sound travels become privatised.
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Potts RealTime
Helyer’s progress: fusing art & science John Potts The tape was in the recorder, and it was a long tape. I knew Nigel Helyer would have a lot to say, because even before winning the Helene Lempriere National Sculpture Award earlier this year, he had been busy. And since taking out that prize he’d been…
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SonicDifference Percival
Seeking resonance: Interview: Nigel Helyer: SonicDifference Bob Percival I had been looking forward to meeting Nigel Helyer; sculptor, sound artist and currently an Artist in Residence at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Geneva. Anyone whose reputation precedes them with such enthusiasm, respect and good humour must be special and, it has to be said, Dr…
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magnus-Opus
Magnus-Opus (Nigel Helyer, Jon Drummond. Australien) Phone users be warned. Each time you dial a number, you have performed a musical piece and may have infringed the international copyright of the composers.
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ISEA2004
ISEA 2004 Layers of Performance By by Stanislav Roudavski People play with “the algorithmically controlled quadraphonic soundscape and its visual manifestations” in Sonic Spaces, an installation by Shawn Pinchback. Photographs by Stanislav Roudavski. Aboard flight 18.45, London – Helsinki, people scan each other for the happy signs of genius. And no wonder. According to the…
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Crosstalk kahn
Architecture does sound Douglas Kahn The cross talk of the title no doubt refers to the way sounds from the different pieces ‘bleed’ (ouch!) into one another when placed in close proximity. Often, in exhibitions involving sound, ‘cross’ could apply to the antagonism of competing sounds, but here there is no anger, no claims staked,…
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Echigo Tsumari
Echigo-Tsumari Triennial 2003, Japan The recent Documenta 11 and 50th Venice Biennale exhibitions spawned a plethora of critical articles intensifying debate round the phenomenon of globalism – on the one hand the global rise and rise of large-scale biennale/triennale exhibitions, on the other globalism as both curatorial theme and format of these exhibitions.
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mowson
Education feature: training the sound artist A thrilling sono-cranial re-wire Bruce Mowson Nigel Helyer (see interview), whose sound sculpture Meta-Diva won the 2002 Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, questioned whether there were any courses in Australia which allowed for the study of sound in proper depth, responded by asking “Is there anywhere that teaches [among…
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Some approaches to Sound and Listening.
My practice has a pluralistic approach to the sonic domain and embraces several strands of conceptual and technological development. These in turn are manifest in a variety of modes, which range from gallery based interactive works, to environmental public sound works to Research and Development programmes in spatially located immersive soundscapes. As an introduction this…
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Sonic Voyages
Imagine a child of the ‘jet-age’ living in an unobtrusive coastal village, mid-way between the dwelling of Blake, the artist, poet and visionary and that of his friend, the scientist and astronomer Halley. The child proceeds with eyes wide open to technics and ears tuned to poetics ……
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Electrical by Nature
Theoretical papers often quote Plato’s Cave – such a nice, primitive dawn of consciousness image, with its shadowy representations flickering sootily across the cave’s rear wall and the line of onlookers warming their backs by the fire! Strangely there is scant mention of the crackle of burning wood, or the sounds of those protagonists prancing…
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2 + 2 = A math primer for the hard of hearing.
2 + 2 =….. was delivered as part of the “SoundCulture96” conference to parallel the “Silent Forest” installation and “A Silent Forest” radio broadcast. As such the paper provides a brief overview of some of my general interests as a sound sculptor in a confluence of morphology, spatiality and technology. The text, which follows remains…
Texts
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BioSphere/DataSphere
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Sonus Maris; the concert!
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Sonique; the life and art of Dr Sonique (the Graphic Novel)
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Sonus Maris_V2
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The Past is our Future; The Future is our Past.
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Bed-time reading
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Echo and Narcissus; and the contest for aural space.
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Sounds and Sweet Airs
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Freeze Frame
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Scribbly Gum Suites
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Virtual talking in 2020
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Tracing Silence; Ecocide and Omnicide.
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The Sound of Place; Environmental Artworks at Bundanon.
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Co-Composition and De-Composition Biological agency as a compositional tool.
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A Specialist Mentoring Opportunity.
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Semi-Automatic Writing: An Opera for Human and Machine Voices.
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Culturescape:An Ecology of Bundanon
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Sonus Maris
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Culturescape.
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A Different Engine
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AudioNomad
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IceCap and GeneMusiK
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SPPS
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Oratorio Photo Essay
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Oratorio and Heavy Metal
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Walking, Thinking and Memory.
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Drawing Books
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The Oratorio for a Million Souls
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Audio_01
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Two Islands
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LandFall
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The Deluge Ark(ive)
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A Dissimulation of Birds
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The Biological Mixer
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Landscape/Portrait
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Heavy Metal
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CultCult – audio illumination from the Ocean
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BioLogging Retrofit
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BioPod
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Eine Kleine GeneMusiK
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Songs from the UnderWorld_v3
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Architecture for Bees; Bees for Architecture
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Bristle
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Breathless; Take a Deep Breath
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Public Art concepts
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An Atlas of Small Voyages
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Songs from the UnderWorld_V2
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Under the Icecap
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BeeWork
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EcoLocated: Art Science and the Environment.
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CrayVox
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Bio_Logging and Under the IceCap
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Radiolarians
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New Host_V6
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Law of the Tongue
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VoxAEther
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Padme
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New York Drawings
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Teatro y Democracia
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Snap, Crackle and Pop; On listening, memory and amnesia
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The Sonic Nomadic:Exploring Mobile Surround-Sound Interactions
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Adrift
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Zephyr II
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BioSonics
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Run Silent Run Deep
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Mexico Is Different
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Ars Electronica; Vitae Brevis
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A Night out in NokiaTown
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The Nomadic Ear
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Gran Tourismo
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Sculpture in the Vineyards
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WA Marine Facility ~ Ondes
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AudioMaze
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Quint de Loup II
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AudioNomadism ~ a brief history of Sound in Public Space.
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Talking Stick
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Syren for Port Jackson
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Factory Spirit.
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Swarm
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What Survives
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Soundarts and the Living Dead
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Spinner
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Lotus
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Magnus Opus
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