Silent Forest

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Year : 1996
A multi-source sound installation in two parts + accompanying radio broadcast.

Exhibited.
San Francisco Art Institute as part of SoundCulture 96.
National Gallery of Victoria in Contempora 5 (Now in NGV Collection).

Materials.
Siren section (x4 suspended units) Aluminium, perforated zinc, rigging wire, audio electronics.

Dimensions.
Siren units ~ 4m diameter x 0.5m horn diameter.

Installation.
Footprint ~ 19m x 13m x 7m.

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Everything’s Nice with American Rice

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Year : 2003

Exhibited.
Everything`s nice with American rice” was installed in Matsudai, Japan as part of the Echigo-Tsumari Trienniale 2003.

Materials.
Fermentation Laboratory, Agricultural equipment, Rice.

Dimensions.
Laboratory ~10m x 6m x 3m.

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Haiku

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Year : 2003

Exhibited.
Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney 2003.

Materials.
Stainless steel, Aluminium, Audio and Solar electronics.

Dimensions.
Footprint variable, each unit 300m dia. x 3.5m.

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Gyro-Diva

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Year : 1993

Exhibited.
Artspace, Sydney 1993, Gallery X, Tokyo 1993, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland 1994.

Materials.
Turbines, mahogany and steel, support system, yacht wire and aluminium, compressor and air control equipment, x4 stools, music stand with “Ionisation” by Edgar Varese, x3 mechanical toys in oil baths on steel supports.

Dimensions.
Installation footprint - 4m x 8m x3m.

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Host

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Year : 2003

Exhibited.
Metronom Gallery Barcelona 2003.
Auditori CAM, Alicante, 2003..
Stanford University Gallery 2003.

Materials.
X2 DVD projections, x100 Insect cages, x25 Laboratory stands, x200 Crickets.

Dimensions.
Footprint variable, individual units 2m x 2m x 2m.

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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.


A range of ‘Sonic Archives’ may be ordered directly via this site for research and/or educational purposes.

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RANDOM QUOTES

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is dealing with numbers, because it does many things by ways of unnoticed conceptions, which with clear conceptions it could not do.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.