Editions Sonique invites you to download a series of texts that have been sized for mobile devices. Some of these are published as hardback books and many are available as epubs (on Apple books) or as larger Pdf files on the Internet Archive. AlphaBravoCharlie and The Deluge Ark(ive) are also dedicated websites (see splash […]
Read More →Echo and Narcissus; and the contest for aural space.
on June 21, 2022in Articles, Essays, Texts, The Artisttags: Sound Essays

Here is the essay Echo and Narcissus; and the contest for urban space, as a PDF formatted for mobile devices – read it instead of doing Wordle! In this article, I invite you to journey through the Sonic Commons, a resonant and contested geography, that encompasses shared human sonic experiences, public, private, and those imagined […]
Read More →The Sound of Place; Environmental Artworks at Bundanon.
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 […]
Read More →Co-Composition and De-Composition Biological agency as a compositional tool.
on October 6, 2020in Articles, arts and science, Essays, interactive new media, Research and Development Writing, sound sculpture, Textstags: Art and micro-biology, Art and Science

This paper examines a series of creative sound-works which combine human and biological agents to re-mix, create and re-invent musical scores. The central concept is to consider Genes, Memes and Musical notation as parallel mnemonic structures that function as instructions for the fleshing-out of life across temporal barriers. GeneMusiK and associated works Under the IceCap […]
Read More →Culturescape:An Ecology of Bundanon
on February 9, 2020in Essays, Research and Development Writing, Resources, Reviews and Press, Texts
A short speech written and spoken by Gary Warner at the invitation of the authors for the book launch of Culturescape: An Ecology of Bundanon by Nigel Helyer and John Potts, at the Australia Council, Pyrmont, Sydney, Thursday 30 January 2020. This edition is now available online at The Bundanon Trust site. At Bundanon: Spotting […]
Read More →A Different Engine
on May 28, 2019in arts and science, Essays, interactive new media, Texts

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on May 28, 2019in arts and science, environmental project, Essays, interactive new media, Texts

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on May 28, 2019in arts and science, Essays, Textstags: Art and Science, installation, interactive new media, sculpture

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Read More →Oratorio Photo Essay
on May 28, 2019in arts and science, Essays, public art, sound sculpture, Texts

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