Exhibited.
Oslo Fijord and on board the “Opera” cruse ship as part of ISEA2004.
Materials.
Lifeboat, scientific and AV installations, crew of 5.
Dimensions.
4m diameter x 3.5m.
Between June 2004 and February 2005 Nigel Helyer worked as an Artist in Residence at the Paul Scherrer Institut, one of Switzerland’s largest research laboratories. The Following is extracted from the Institut publication ‘Aktuell’.
How might an Artist approach the Paul Scherrer Institut, which by any standards, is a complex intellectual and social organism? My strategy, simplistic though it may seem, has been to imagine PSI as eco-system, or more specifically, from my Sound Sculptor’s perspective, as an acoustic-ecology. My principal task being how to get under the skin of the life of PSI and create a work that will encapsulate aspects of PSI in the form of an abstract ‘audio-portrait’, whilst simultaneously employing some of the Lab’s technology and expertise.
AudioNomad, a background.
The Audio Nomad project is an exciting new development in Australian Research and Development that combines the skills and talents of Artists with those of Scientists in an imaginative collaboration that is developing technologies to support and deliver creative public sound-art events. Our specific interests are in location sensitive, mobile audio systems that generate immersive sound experiences. Our approach is to mould our research and development around the real world demands of ambitious public art projects challenging more conventional technology driven approaches ~ AudioNomad is creatively driven!
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Four brief ‘Treatments’ representing user experiences for AudioNomad mobile locations sensitive augmented audio systems.
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THE ARTIST
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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