Listen to some talking heads wax lyrical about Spatial Audio and Mnemonics

Syren for Port Jackson was a recent pilot project designed to demonstrate the potential of the AudioNomad systems that have been developed over the past two years. The original Syren project was mounted on the Helipad of the cruise liner “Opera” and toured the Baltic in 2004 as part is ISEA. The current work is a more sophisticated and accurate development, allowing the composition of finely grained non-linear spatial compositions that provide an immersive user experience.

Composing on the fly aboard the test rig, Leander.

Working in our home city was a conceptual and compositional challenge as it was important to address a raft of historical and cultural material and situate the sonic material in the appropriate physical context. We used a small motor launch, the Leander as a test rig to de-bug both the software, the technical running gear and the compositional strategy.

DGPS tracks the Regal with a 1 metre accuracy.

Listen to a stereo sample from the project_01

Listen to a stereo sample from the project_02

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.

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

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What Survives

Who says that all must vanish?
Who knows, perhaps the flight
of the bird you wound remains,
and perhaps flowers survive
caresses in us, in their ground.

It isn’t the gesture that lasts,
but it dresses you again in gold
armor -from breast to knees-
and the battle was so pure
an Angel wears it after you.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Syren for Port Jackson