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LAND, a sure footing, a Terra Firma, our groundedness.  But my story is somewhat different, nomadic and fluid.  Like Odysseus, who after all that hard travel and the spat with the suitors, was told to shoulder a ship’s oar and walk inland until he found a place where no-one could recognise the oar ~ at […]

Under the IceCap. Dr. Nigel Llwyd William Helyer and Dr. Mary-Anne Lea University of Western Australia & University of Tasmania Contact: Dr. Helyer .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) http://www.sonicobjects.com Contact: Dr Mary-Anne Lea .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) http://www.imas.utas.edu.au/people/profiles/current-staff/mary-anne-lea Abstract. Under the IceCap is one of a […]

A recent interview between John Potts and Nigel Helyer, download the PDF from Material Thinking EcoLocated; Art, Science and the Environment.

Echo and Narcissus ~ Aural space, navigation and memory, or Playing it by Ear! A SoundWalk. I am going to take you on a walk, a soundwalk if you will. I am going to lead you, by the ear, if necessary, to the Sonic Commons, at once an atavistic geography and yet again a simple […]

Act I. The Globe. It has been a standing joke for years now, each time I leave London I kick myself for again forgetting to visit the New Globe.  Finally this inattention or amnesia has been remedied with the purchase of a five pound ticket for a standing place in the yard where I watched […]

Snap, Crackle and Pop; On listening, memory and amnesia. Your words are preserved in the tin foil and will come back upon the application of the instrument years after you are dead in exactly the same tone of voice you spoke in then…This tongueless, toothless instrument, without larynx or pharynx, dumb, voiceless matter, nevertheless mimics […]

A comprehensive but succinct description of the work of AudioNomad Research Group published in the IEEE,  The Sonic Nomadic: Exploring Mobile Surround-Sound Interactions IEEE_final.pdf

This article originally appeared in RealTime Edition 83, Febuary/March 2008 and is reproduced here with the permission of the writer and RealTime http://www.realtimearts.net

“MÉXICO IS DIFFERENT LIKE A TRAVEL FOLDER SAYS.” THUS QUOTH THE IMMORTAL BARD, RY COODER. THROUGH THE LENS OF THE RECENT TRANSITIO_MX02 FESTIVAL OF ELECTRONIC ARTS & VIDEO YOU CAN SEE WHY. OVER A PLATE OF CHILES RELLENOS, DIRECTOR OF THE TRANSITIO_MX02 FESTIVAL GRACE QUINTANILLA RECOUNTS A STORY HER YOUNG SON TOLD HER, IT GOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS:

This article originally appeared in RealTime Edition 82, Dec/Jan 2007 and is reproduced here with the permission of the writer and RealTime http://www.realtimearts.net

A visit to the beach in darkest Austria!

A Nomadic Ear treatment