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.
Notes.
Host is an installation developed recently at the ‘SymbioticA’ Bio-Art and Technology Laboratory (University of Western Australia) in which an audience of live Crickets attend a lecture concerning the sex life of insects. The lecture, in the form of two DVD projections, has one sound track recorded directly from the speakers voice, whilst the other was recorded via the aural nerve of a Cricket. If nothing else, this installation is ample proof that our own sex lives are much less interesting than we suppose!!!
© Dr Nigel Helyer 2003.
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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.
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