Category: Essays

  • Oratorio and Heavy Metal

    Oratorio and Heavy Metal

  • Walking, Thinking and Memory.

    Walking, Thinking and Memory | NIGEL HE…TTS | Walking Art – Walking Aesthetics.pdf

  • Under the Icecap

    Under the IceCap. Dr. Nigel Llwyd William Helyer and Dr. Mary-Anne Lea Maquarie University & University of Tasmania Contact: Dr. Helyer https://www.sonicobjects.com Contact: Dr Mary-Anne Lea http://www.imas.utas.edu.au/people/profiles/current-staff/mary-anne-lea Abstract. Under the IceCap is one of a series of creative outcomes resulting from the Bio_Logging Art + Science project  at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic…

  • Teatro y Democracia

    Act I. The Globe. It has been a standing joke for years now, each time I leave London I kick myself for again forgetting to visit the New Globe.  Finally this inattention or amnesia has been remedied with the purchase of a five pound ticket for a standing place in the yard where I watched…

  • Snap, Crackle and Pop; On listening, memory and amnesia

    Snap, Crackle and Pop; On listening, memory and amnesia. Your words are preserved in the tin foil and will come back upon the application of the instrument years after you are dead in exactly the same tone of voice you spoke in then…This tongueless, toothless instrument, without larynx or pharynx, dumb, voiceless matter, nevertheless mimics…

  • Mexico Is Different

    This article originally appeared in RealTime Edition 83, Febuary/March 2008 and is reproduced here with the permission of the writer and RealTime http://www.realtimearts.net “MÉXICO IS DIFFERENT LIKE A TRAVEL FOLDER SAYS.” THUS QUOTH THE IMMORTAL BARD, RY COODER. THROUGH THE LENS OF THE RECENT TRANSITIO_MX02 FESTIVAL OF ELECTRONIC ARTS & VIDEO YOU CAN SEE WHY.…

  • Ars Electronica; Vitae Brevis

    This article originally appeared in RealTime Edition 82, Dec/Jan 2007 and is reproduced here with the permission of the writer and RealTime http://www.realtimearts.net A visit to the beach in darkest Austria!

  • A Night out in NokiaTown

    A Nomadic Ear treatment

  • The Nomadic Ear

    The Nomadic Ear. Sonography, Cartography and the design of Sonic Narratives for Non-Linear Experience. Preamble; getting immersed. In discussing Immersive Environments we find ourselves at the mercy of a phalanx of aqueous meta-phors, saturated in an inescapable lexicon that engulfs our senses, saturating our frames in the fluid medium of sound.  So be it; let…

  • Gran Tourismo

    This article originally appeared in RealTime Edition 81, Oct/Nov 2007 and is reproduced here with the permission of the writer and RealTime http://www.realtimearts.net A Cultural Travelogue of the big shows in Europa 2007.