Listen to this space (well a space in Western Australia).
AudioMaze is an interactive project for the new exhibition space at the WA Blind and Guide-Dog AssociationA 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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Quint de Loup II was exhibitied at the Tin Sheds Gallery, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Sydney ~ the show rounded up with a one day seminar on Sound, Art, Architecture and the Environment.
Here is my short presentation.
The download is a bit slow ~ but it’s worth the wait!
Fictionalising Fiction! ~ Nigel Helyer.
In the...
The Wireless House is a current 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.
Listen to some oral history material that we are collecting in Glebe ~ join the group to contribute
and check out Glebenet
http://www.pool.org.au/text/wireless_house/the_wireless_house_in_glebenet
and...
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.
William Shakespeare, The Tempest.
Prototype testing the mobile audio units...
Syren for Port Jackson has recently 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.
The Regal approaching Darling Harbour.
Factory 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.
Factory Spirit
Chiang Mai 1993 Steel, Glass, model figurines and vehicles. 350mm x 250mm x 350mm x2 units.
This miniature public sculpture consisted of two factory/showrooms installed in the niches of the boundary wall of a large Buddhist Temple in the centre of Chiang...
‘Swarm’ is the latest development of a series of interactive ‘Theremin’ based sound sculptures (see ‘Ariel’, ‘Caliban’s Children’ and ‘Quint de Loup’). ‘Swarm’ is concieved to operate out-doors and is the first of the series to be solar powered ~ the work is installed in the Werribbe Mansion Park as part of the Herlen Lermpriere Sculpture Award.
Swarm 2005
stainless steel, acrylic, audio electronics, steel rigging cable
Footprint = 8,000 cm x 8,000 cm x 3,500 cm X10...
WHAT SURVIVES: SONIC RESIDUES IN BREATHING BUILDINGS
March 2006 at The Performance Space ~ Curator, Gail Priest.
Consisting of three major gallery-based sound installations and a program of commissioned works for two sound stations in the building, What Survives explores the real and imagined remnants of human presence in architecture.
The structures we build bear silent witness to human behaviour—what have the walls, beams and girders absorbed and what sonic secrets...
Spinner was created for the McClelland Scuplture Park (near Melbourne, Victoria) as part of the Sculpture Award 2005. It is currently installed as part of Sculpture in the Vineyards at Wollembi, New South Wales.
Spinner is a crystalline form with a symmetry of six and is designed as a passive kinetic work (i.e. it can be rolled on its axis).
The form is locked together by tension cables acting against a central compression tube, that also supports a hundred ‘fans’...
“Lotus” is a recent commission for an environmental audio sculpture that is moored in the lake at ECU’s Joondalup campus.
Lotus on-site and talking poetry ~ November 2006
“Lotus” is a development of my previous solar powered environmental audio works and is directly based upon the functional components of “Haiku” but here deployed within a space-frame that acts as a floating sub-structure for deployment in the lake at Joondalup. Floating the work is a...