Part 1; an orientation. We are neurologically predisposed to seek patterns in our surroundings, in fact, pattern recognition is our core cognitive ability, vital to our evolution and survival as a species—as it affords the capacity of prediction. In life, as in art, we take delight in the symmetries, growth patterns and morphologies of the […]
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on February 12, 2023in arts and science, environmental project, Projects, Research and Development Writing

Sounds and Sweet Airs
on June 29, 2021in environmental project, Installation, interactive new media, Projects, public art, sound sculpture, Uncategorised

Sounds and Sweet Airs is part of a long-term web project Soniferous Cities; Islands of Sound that experiments with the creation of sonic cartographies. The project which is part of the Öres21 Summer Exhibition aims to create rich interactive audio-portraits of a range of geographies, environments and communities. Sounds and Sweet Airs links sites on […]
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on June 9, 2021in arts and science, environmental project, Projects, Research and Development Writingtags: Art and Science, bio-art, sound-art

The Scribbly gum tree; Eucalyptus haemastoma, Eucalyptus racemosa and Eucalyptus rossii are found throughout New South Wales coastal plains and hills in the Sydney region. These Eucalypts are easily identifiable by the graphic scribbles created under their smooth yellow-grey bark by the larva of the Ogmograptis racemosa scribbly gum moth caterpillars. The gum-tree stands by […]
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on October 24, 2020in Articles, arts and science, environmental project, Installation, interactive new media, radiophonic, sound sculpture, Uncategorisedtags: Art and Enviromment, Art and Politics

Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein. Nietzsche, Beyond good and Evil 1886 In the words of the ancient Chinese proverb, May you live in interesting times! — and it would appear that we do — a time in which centuries of accumulative environmental degradation forms a […]
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on October 6, 2020in Articles, arts and science, environmental project, Essays, interactive new media, public art, sound sculpture, Textstags: arts and science, critical writing, environmental project, sound sculpture

This essay by Nigel Helyer and John Potts listens to the sound of place: of Bundanon, a three thousand acre property in the Shoalhaven river valley in rural NSW, Australia. Bundanon is today an artists’ colony and education centre, following the gift to the Australian people in 1993 of the entire property—including homestead, artist studio […]
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on May 28, 2019in arts and science, environmental project, Essays, interactive new media, Texts

AudioNomad
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on May 28, 2019in environmental project, social history, Texts

CrayVox Book:s
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on May 27, 2011in arts and science, environmental project, Installation, Projectstags: arts and science, environmental project, sound sculpture
Law of the Tongue
on October 31, 2010in arts and science, environmental project, Installation, Projectstags: installation, sound sculpture
he Law of the Tongue ~ or the Sonic Whale. He who fights the monster should be careful lest he thereby becomes a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze into thee. Frederick Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil. The Sea and superstition go hand in hand. For centuries sailors […]
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on August 31, 2010in environmental project, Projects, public arttags: environmental project, public art, sound sculpture
iews of the Padme Installation at MacQuarie University 2010. Padme is a solar powered digital audio floating sculpture that is activated by wave motion and by water birds nudging the antennae-like motion sensing ‘whiskers’ that radiate from the work. A short radio interview about the installation. A favourite with the wildlife. Slight movement activated […]
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