Trouble in Paradise: Swelter - An Artists’ Project for the Palm House, Royal Botanic Gardens
May 1999 - January 2000, Sydney
by Michael Goldberg
Includes review of the Leaven project
Listening in Melissa McMahon bugs Nigel Helyer.
Nigel Helyer is an English-born, Sydney-based sound artist, lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, and co-founder of SoundCulture, a Pan-Pacfific organisation focusing on sound art. Helyer’s work is of an essentially composite, or in his words “pluridisciplinary”, character, in the sense that not only does any given piece incorporate a range of media, but many are part of a series of “events” (one or several?) including other pieces, other artists, other countries, radio broadcasts, internet links, CD’s, and CD-Roms.
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Exhibited.
Watch This Space, Alice Springs, 1996.
Materials.
Steel wrenches, Copper Antennae, Scientific Glassware, Grubs.
Dimensions
10m x 3m x 3m.
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Year; 1985.
Exhibited
AGNSW Perspecta
Materials
Triwall Cardboard, Velvet, Cast Iron
Dimensions
7m x 3m x 3.5m
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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.
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