2 + 2 =..... was delivered as part of the “SoundCulture96” conference to parallel the “Silent Forest” installation and “A Silent Forest” radio broadcast. As such the paper provides a brief overview of some of my general interests as a sound sculptor in a confluence of morphology, spatiality and technology. The text, which follows remains in its original presentation form (bad jokes included).
"Are the sounds issuing from (the instrumentation connected to) Stelarc’s body real, or not?"
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Year : 1986
Exhibited.
“The Bicentennial Perspecta” - AGNSW.
Materials.
Steel, Timber, Audio electronics.
Dimensions.
3.5m x 10m diameter.
Year : 1998
Exhibited.
Innenseit Projekt Kassel 1998.
Materials.
Bronze Bell, x64 Voltaic cells and electronic circuits. Zinc wall texts.
Dimension.
Installation footprint 10m x 6m.
Year : 1999
Exhibited.
A Public Sculpture Project, Woolloomooloo Bay, Sydney, December 1999.
Materials.
Steel, Timber, Solar and Audio electronics.
Dimensions.
7m x 20m x 7m.
Year : 1999
Exhibited.
“Drift” was commissioned by Hull Time Based Arts of Hull, UK for TooT (Totally out of Tune) festival 1999.
Materials.
Sidewinder Trawler, Multichannel audio and wood and Aluminium sculptural element.
Dimensions.
Installation footprint 15m x 10m x 4m.
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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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one grain of rice is composed of seven louse heads.
one louse head is composed of seven fine drawing lines.
one fine drawing line is composed of thirty-six pollen particles.
one pollen particle is composed of thirty-six sunlight rays.
one sunlight ray is composed of thirty-six molecules.
one molecule is composed of thirty-six atoms.
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