Author: Nigel Helyer
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Oratorio and Heavy Metal
Oratorio and Heavy Metal
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Walking, Thinking and Memory.
Walking, Thinking and Memory | NIGEL HE…TTS | Walking Art – Walking Aesthetics.pdf
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Drawing Books
Trained like one of Pavlov’s dogs during my foundation studies at the West Sussex College of Art and Design (1970) to draw constantly, and never throw even the slightest scribble away – I now have boxes and boxes of drawings; well mostly scribbles! Unlike some of my more technically gifted foundation studies colleagues who waltzed…
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The Oratorio for a Million Souls
The Oratorio for a Million Souls is a major feature of the European Capital of Culture, Leeuwarden (Fryslan) 2018 Silence of the Bees programme. The project consists of bee listening architectures constructed in three European botanical gardens, located in Buitenpost (Fryslan) and Emden and Oldenburg (Germany).
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Wireless House was a project in Glebe.
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Two Islands
Two Islands, Franklin Square. This public art project was developed with the aim of representing the tangible and intangible layers of history and meaning in Franklin Square. The project was commissioned by the City of Hobart and was inaugurated in November 2018 after a three-year development and building programme that included extensive community consultation and…
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LandFall
LandFall is situated in the marina of Port Coogee, Western Australia and responds to the history of the wreck of the Omeo that lies close to the shore. The Omeo was built in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1858 as an iron steamship but was later converted to sail. She was lost in a storm on the Western…
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The Deluge Ark(ive)
The Deluge Ark(ive). The Deluge Ark(ive) exhibition comprises an exhibition, the launch of an Artist’s book and a performance event at the new Moonah Arts Centre in Hobart, Tasmania (16th November to the 16th December 2017). The project arose in a curious manner. Some three years ago I was engaged by Sabanci University in Istanbul…
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A Dissimulation of Birds
Our capacity to communicate, and more so our ability to sing is directly related to our intimate evolutionary relationship with the acoustic genius of birds. Our species has internalised and evolved the trills and warbles of birdsong to form language and music. A Dissimulation of Birds pays homage to the virtuosity of our feathered friends…
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The Biological Mixer
By Sarah Moss. Dr Nigel Helyer, also known as Dr Sonique, has a fascination with data sonifications. “I’ve done quite a lot of projects where I build a really big audio library, maybe in certain categories,” he said. “It might be environmental sounds, local music, aural history archival sounds or from early radio in that…