FORTHCOMING PROJECT AND NEWS

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Host versions 02 and 03

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The “Host” installation has been re-mounted in two new versions, at Ars Electronica as part of the Symbiotica group exhibition, celebrating the award of the Golden Nica for the work of the Lab.  Simultaneously version 03 is on exhibition in Mexico City as part of the exciting Transitio_MX02 New Media Arts Exhibition and Symposium.


For more information go to the Ars Electronica website.


For more information go to the Transitio_MX02 website.


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CURRENT PROJECTS

Sculpture in the Vineyards

A new work “Transformer” has been installed at the UnderCliff Vineyard in Wollembi alongside “Spinner” which remains in-situ from last year.image

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"Lotus" at Edith Cowan University

“Lotus" is a new commission for an environmental audio sculpture that will float in the lake at ECU’s Joondalup campus.

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Lotus on-site and talking poetry ~ November 2006

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ESSAY

The Nomadic Ear

The Nomadic Ear.


Sonography, Cartography and the design of Sonic Narratives for Non-Linear Experience.


Preamble; getting immersed.


In discussing Immersive Environments we find ourselves at the mercy of a phalanx of aqueous meta-phors, saturated in an inescapable lexicon that engulfs our senses, saturating our frames in the fluid medium of sound.  So be it; let us be carried away on the flood to be inundated in the ocean of sound.  This text is concerned with concepts of spatiality, of location and the interactions of sounding bodies that articulate and activate the soundscape, how we as auditors experience the sonic domain and how we as authors compose and construct compelling immersive audioscapes.

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AudioNomadism ~ a brief history of Sound in Public Space.

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THE SOUND IN THIS SITE

It is ironic that the website of a Sound Artist contains very little audio material.  This is, of course, intentional, the principal reasons being that I place a strong emphasis on the experience of a work in-situ, mediated as it is by the environmental context and the listening trajectory of the viewer/auditor.  Secondly, the majority of these projects are multi-source environments, often operating with interactive or dynamic elements that are virtually impossible to represent as a linear stereo field.


A method I have adopted, that in some part overcomes such problems of Audio representation of complex sound installations, is to develop parallel Radiophonic projects.  These Radio works are designed to give a general impression of the content and intention of the Installations whilst recognising the linear and more narrative form of stereo broadcast.


A range of ‘Sonic Archives’ may be ordered directly via this site for research and/or educational purposes.

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RANDOM QUOTES

....to my indescribable astonishment and horror, the devilish metal funnel spat out, without more ado, its mixture of bronchial slime and chewed rubber; that noise that possessors of gramophone and radio sets are prevailed upon to call music. And behind the slime and the croaking there was, sure enough, like an old master beneath a layer of dirt, the noble outline of that divine music. I could distinguish the majestic structure and the deep wide breath and the full broad bowing of the strings…

Hermann Hesse. Der Steppenwolf 1927.