Sonicobjects

The nature and culture of sound

Author: Nigel Helyer

  • What Survives

    What Survives

     

  • Soundarts and the Living Dead

    This article originally appeared in RealTime Edition 70, Dec/Jan 2005 and is reproduced here with the permission of the writer and RealTime http://www.realtimearts.net Imagine starkness; “A late evening in the future ~ Krapp’s den. Front centre a small table, the two drawers of which open towards audience.  Sitting at the table, facing front, i.e. across…

  • Spinner

    Spinner was created for the McClelland Sculpture Park (near Melbourne, Victoria) as part of the Sculpture Award 2005. Spinner is a crystalline form with a symmetry of six and is designed as a passive kinetic work (i.e. it can be rolled on its axis). The form is locked together by tension cables acting against a…

  • Lotus

    L]otus is a commission for an environmental audio sculpture that is moored in the lake at ECU’s Joondalup campus. Left – Visualisation image, right – Lotus on-site and talking poetry. “Lotus” is a development of my previous solar-powered environmental audio works and is directly based upon the functional components of “Haiku” but here deployed within…

  • KellerRadioActive at IASKA

    KelleRadioActive ~ IASKA (October ~ December 2005). The history of broadcast media and communications technology has developed at an alarming pace over the last century and it is easy to forget the central role that radio has played in rural Australian communities, both as a form of entertainment and as a vital link. One of…

  • Magnus Opus

    Monsanto may have stolen the Native Medicines Novalis may own your cell-line and Microsoft may have locked up all the picture archives. But we’ve got your number! Visit Magnus Opus

  • Preaching to the Converter

    Preaching to the Converter

    Exhibited at the Art Gallery of NSW during Perspecta 1985 Preaching to the Converter combined Triwall Cardboard, Velvet and Cast Iron in a seven-metre flow across the Museum floor. A stage set of gigantic proportions, or rather a normal room viewed from the perspective of a child.  Castles and reverberatory furnaces, a liquid river of…

  • Virtual Spirit

     

  • McMahon Interview

    Listening in Melissa McMahon bugs Nigel Helyer. Nigel Helyer is an English-born, Sydney-based sound artist, lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, and co-founder of SoundCulture, a Pan-Pacfific organisation focusing on sound art. Helyer’s work is of an essentially composite, or in his words “pluridisciplinary”, character, in the sense that not only does any given…

  • Leaven_Goldberg

    Trouble in Paradise: Swelter – An Artists’ Project for the Palm House, Royal Botanic Gardens May 1999 – January 2000, Sydney by Michael Goldberg Includes review of the Leaven project