Year; 1985.
Exhibited
AGNSW Perspecta
Materials
Triwall Cardboard, Velvet, Cast Iron
Dimensions
7m x 3m x 3.5m
Notes
A stage set of gigantic proportions, or rather a normal room viewed from the prespective of a child. Castles and reverbatory furnaces, a liquid river of molten steel, or is it blood, flowing from the maw of a Bessemer Converter. Bouyant on its surface hundreds of pistols in rusty cast iron bob along towards a Throne setting surmounting an Olympic podium, an ambigious promise!
Nigel Helyer 1985
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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.
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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