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 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

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 […]
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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 […]
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on May 28, 2019in arts and science, Essays, interactive new media, Texts

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on May 23, 2019in Essays, interactive new media, public art, Resources, Sculpture, sound sculpture, Texts
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on May 23, 2019in Essays, Resources, Texts
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