uring 2008 Nigel held the ABC Radiophonic Fellowship and developed a project entitled GhosTrain that deals with memories (and amnesia) surrounding Sydney’s Eveleigh Railyards. The first stage of the GhosTrain project created a series of short Radio Broadcasts and a Podcast website focused upon the Redfern Locomotive & Eveliegh Carriage Works. The project addressed the […]
Read More →Run Silent Run Deep
on June 7, 2008in arts and science, environmental project, Installation, interactive new media, Projectstags: arts and science, environmental project, interactive new media, sound sculpture
igel undertook an Artist in Residence at The Marine Mammal Laboratory (Tropical Marine Science Institute) of the National University of Singapore; developing a project for ISEA2008 exhibited at the National Museum of Singapore, July ~ August 2008. Run Silent, Run Deep creates a multi-vocal and multi-cultural AudioPortrait of Singapore – in particular the area around […]
Read More →Sculpture in the Vineyards
on October 23, 2007in environmental project, Projects, public arttags: arts and science, environmental project, public art
new work “Transformer” has been installed at the UnderCliff Vineyard in Wollembi alongside “Spinner” which remains in-situ from last year. y approach to the sonic domain has always been informed by a Sculptor’s perspective which emphasises the experiential nature of sounds, linking them to the dynamic, material events that produce them and situating them within […]
Read More →WA Marine Facility ~ Ondes
on February 17, 2007in Projects, public arttags: environmental project, public art, sound sculpture
Ondes Ondes is a public art commission for a new Marine facility at Henderson WA. The work is comprised of three elements; an outdoor kinetic work, consisting of six counter-balanced needles which interact with the wind; a series of interactive biomorphic sculptures that react to human movement via changes in their internal lighting and a […]
Read More →AudioMaze
on February 17, 2007in Installation, interactive new media, Projectstags: interactive new media, public art, sound sculpture
Quint de Loup II
on February 17, 2007in Installation, interactive new media, Projectstags: interactive new media, sound sculpture
uint de Loup II was exhibited at the Tin Sheds Gallery, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Sydney. Fictionalising Fiction! ~ Nigel Helyer. n the beginning: As a thirteen year old lad I was once left to kick my heels for the day in central London, along with a couple of friends. Being both […]
Read More →The Wireless House
on November 2, 2006in interactive new media, Projects, public art, radiophonic, Research and Development Writingtags: public art, radiophonic, social history, sound sculpture
he Wireless House is a public art project commissioned by the City of Sydney as part of the Glebe Point Road upgrade. The wireless House is located in Foley park at the intersection of Glebe Point Road and Pyrmont Bridge road and has an interesting history. And while you are at it……listen into some audio […]
Read More →Talking Stick
on June 27, 2006in arts and science, Installation, Projectstags: arts and science, interactive new media, sound sculpture
ttentive Listening is not something that many of us allow ourselves the time to do, dominated as we are by a constant flow of visual information, and so mindful of the demands of the clock. But listening, rather than simply hearing, is an ever present gateway to hidden worlds of detail and narrative; always close […]
Read More →Syren for Port Jackson
on March 31, 2006in arts and science, environmental project, interactive new media, Projects, Research and Development Writingtags: arts and science, environmental project, interactive new media
yren 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. […]
Read More →Factory Spirit.
on March 4, 2006in Projectstags: public art
actory 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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- The Past is our Future; The Future is our Past.
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- Freeze Frame
- Scribbly Gum Suites
- Virtual talking in 2020
- Sonus Maris
- The Oratorio for a Million Souls
- Two Islands
- LandFall
- The Deluge Ark(ive)
- A Dissimulation of Birds
- The Biological Mixer
- Landscape/Portrait
- Heavy Metal
- CultCult – audio illumination from the Ocean
- BioLogging Retrofit
- BioPods_V2 The Nebuchadnezzar Suite
- NomansLanding
- BioPod
- Eine Kleine GeneMusiK
- Songs from the UnderWorld_v3
- Architecture for Bees; Bees for Architecture
- Bristle
- Breathless; Take a Deep Breath
- Public Art concepts
- Ars Memoriae Mexicana
- Float like a Butterfly; Sting like a Bee
- Supereste ut Pugnatis (Pugnatis) ut Supereste
- Songs from the UnderWorld_V2
- WYSSA – All my love darling
- Songs from the UnderWorld
- BeeWork
- Milk and Honey
- Weeping Willow
- VoxAura
- CrayVox
- Bio_Logging and Under the IceCap
- Radiolarians
- New Host_V6
- Law of the Tongue
- VoxAEther
- Padme
- New York Drawings
- Adrift
- EcoLocated
- Zephyr II
- BioSonics
- GhosTrain
- Run Silent Run Deep
- Sculpture in the Vineyards
- WA Marine Facility ~ Ondes
- AudioMaze
- Quint de Loup II
- The Wireless House
- Talking Stick
- Syren for Port Jackson
- Factory Spirit.
- Swarm
- What Survives
- Spinner
- Lotus
- KellerRadioActive at IASKA
- Magnus Opus
- Preaching to the Converter
- Virtual Spirit
- Models
- AudioNomad + Syren
- Theorem
- LifeBoat
- An Unrequited Place
- Voyages from Eden to Utopia; Hercules
- The Transit of Venus
- Toll
- A Symphony for Other Cultures
- The Lament
- Sonic Landscapes
- Siren Song
- Seed
- Ship to Shore
- Oracle
- Re-Entry Vehicle; Natural Science in the Spirit World
- Naughty Apartment
- Mute in TalkTown; the sweet warm breath of science
- Meta-Diva
- Metamorphoses
- Leaven
- La Zona del Silencio
- Host
- Gyro-Diva
- Haiku
- Everything’s Nice with American Rice
- Silent Forest
- Drift
- Dual-Nature (Ebb and Flow).
- Din
- Die Melodie der Welt; Bringing Home the Bacon
- Aura