Project Descriptor.
The principal metaphorical drivers in the conceptualization of the design are based upon C19 maritime technologies that relied upon harnessing the natural forces of wind and water, with sail, simple mechanical purchase and balance and ballast. “Zephyr” establishes strong links with the maritime and industrial history of the Geraldton site with the ancient technology of Æolian music to form a suite of passive, kinetic sound sculptures, that is...
The rational and the fantastical: the morphology of Nigel Helyer, by Gail Priest 2008
Despite Star Trek’s propagandist efforts for space as the final frontier, the vast unknown can be found much closer to home in the form of the earth’s oceans. Occupying approximately 79% of the planet it is estimated that only 5% of the watery depths have yet been explored. With the threat of impending environmental disaster the drive to better understand the global ocean has...
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The first stage of the GhosTrain project will create a series of short Radio Broadcasts and a Podcast website focused upon the Redfern Locomotive & Eveliegh Carriage Works. The project will address the oral histories and acoustic ecologies of Industrial culture. The second stage develop this content into to a major sound-installation for TPS at The Carriage-works.
The work aims to create a series of ‘audio-portraits’ of the Redfern Locomotive & Eveliegh Carriage...
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Catalogue Notes: The title is an ironic reference to the motto of submarine captains in WWII who knew that the silence of their craft was the key to remaining undetected. In contrast this artwork is a whole-hearted embrace of the richly sonic world deep within the ocean. The artist will be bringing this auditory world to the surface in an immersive surround-sound experience, which will be located within the gallery.
Prior to the exhibition, the artist...
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Be not afeared; this isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.
Caliban in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Natural sound-scapes that we...
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My 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 the environments that contain and propagate them.
“Transformer” would appear to disqualify itself from the definition of Sound-Sculpture by virtue of its apparent muteness. The principal function of the work, however, is to manifest an aura;...
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Stainless steel and Aluminium, wind sensitive sculpture with passive sonic elements.
Interior forms in laser cut acrylic and stainless steel, sensitive to movement.
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A development of the “Talking Stick” project commissioned by the “Exploratorium” Museum of Science and Human Perception” in San Francisco, AudioMaze presents the sonic experience of an imagioned architectural space. Visitors may interact with the soundscape by using ‘sonic wands’.
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Fictionalising Fiction! ~ Nigel Helyer.
In 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 wary of getting lost in the capital and having little or no money we decided to visit the cartoon cinema that in those days was housed on the main concourse of Victoria station. However our encounter was not, as we had imagined, with Bugs Bunny or the Invisible Man (as it was...
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