The Sonus Maris project displayed the classic characteristic of ‘creeping features.’ In the time domain, our ‘not so friendly’ viral cousins intervened to turn what might have been a smooth art and science collaboration into a staccato and episodic programme, that saw the work start then stop and, repeat…we struggled on! In terms of objectives, […]
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on April 27, 2023in Articles, Blog, interactive new media, Projectstags: Art and Science, Data Sonification, new music composition

Sonique; the life and art of Dr Sonique (the Graphic Novel)
on February 22, 2023in Projects, Texts, Uncategorised, Web Referencestags: critical writing, Graphic Novel, reviews and press, Speculative fiction

Sonique; the Life and Art of Dr.Sonique, is the authorised biography of Dr. Nigel Helyer in the form of a speculative fiction Graphic Novel. The work is a collaboration between Sydney-based comic writer Mark Hobby, the Taiwan-based graphic designer The Milkman, and Dr. Sonique himself who provided copious amounts of factual, anecdotal, and totally fictional […]
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on February 12, 2023in arts and science, environmental project, Projects, Research and Development Writing

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 October 11, 2022in Projectstags: environmental project, Residency, sound installation, sound sculpture

The exhibition The Past is our Future; The Future is our Past is the outcome of an Artist in Residence with the Broken Hill City Art Gallery undertaken during 2021 and 2022 (with several interruptions by Covid19). The project builds on my longstanding relationship with the mining boom town and its layered history. The project – […]
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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 17, 2021in Projects, Reading List, Resources, Textstags: Cinema history, creative writing, Novel

Freeze Frame is a novel that explores the relationship between Cinema and the Afterlife. Set in a ‘soft’ post-environmental apocalypse the narrative features a set of semi-feral youths who also happen to be avid Cinephiles who attend the last functioning Cinema in the world. The Orpheum Cinema is managed by a mysterious group of Greek […]
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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 April 19, 2021in Articles, interactive new media, Projects, sound sculpture, Textstags: Video Presentation
Here are two short video presentations given at the TTT conference (virtually in Wien, Austria 2020) Tracing Silence; Ecocide and Omnicide Co-composition and De-Composition; Biological Agency as a Compositional Tool.
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on December 16, 2019in arts and science, Installation, interactive new media, Projectstags: Art and Science, Data Sonification, Marine environment, sound installation

The Brain is wider than the Sky For put them side by side The one the other will contain With ease and You, beside The Brain is deeper than the sea For hold them Blue to Blue The one the other will absorb As Sponges, Buckets do The Brain is just the weight of God […]
Read More →The Oratorio for a Million Souls
on April 14, 2019in Blog, Projects

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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- Sonus Maris; the concert!
- Sonique; the life and art of Dr Sonique (the Graphic Novel)
- Sonus Maris_V2
- The Past is our Future; The Future is our Past.
- Sounds and Sweet Airs
- Freeze Frame
- Scribbly Gum Suites
- Virtual talking in 2020
- Sonus Maris
- The Oratorio for a Million Souls
- Two Islands
- LandFall
- The Deluge Ark(ive)
- A Dissimulation of Birds
- The Biological Mixer
- Landscape/Portrait
- Heavy Metal
- CultCult – audio illumination from the Ocean
- BioLogging Retrofit
- BioPods_V2 The Nebuchadnezzar Suite
- NomansLanding
- BioPod
- Eine Kleine GeneMusiK
- Songs from the UnderWorld_v3
- Architecture for Bees; Bees for Architecture
- Bristle
- Breathless; Take a Deep Breath
- Public Art concepts
- Ars Memoriae Mexicana
- Float like a Butterfly; Sting like a Bee
- Supereste ut Pugnatis (Pugnatis) ut Supereste
- Songs from the UnderWorld_V2
- WYSSA – All my love darling
- Songs from the UnderWorld
- BeeWork
- Milk and Honey
- Weeping Willow
- VoxAura
- CrayVox
- Bio_Logging and Under the IceCap
- Radiolarians
- New Host_V6
- Law of the Tongue
- VoxAEther
- Padme
- New York Drawings
- Adrift
- EcoLocated
- Zephyr II
- BioSonics
- GhosTrain
- Run Silent Run Deep
- Sculpture in the Vineyards
- WA Marine Facility ~ Ondes
- AudioMaze
- Quint de Loup II
- The Wireless House
- Talking Stick
- Syren for Port Jackson
- Factory Spirit.
- Swarm
- What Survives
- Spinner
- Lotus
- KellerRadioActive at IASKA
- Magnus Opus
- Preaching to the Converter
- Virtual Spirit
- Models
- AudioNomad + Syren
- Theorem
- LifeBoat
- An Unrequited Place
- Voyages from Eden to Utopia; Hercules
- The Transit of Venus
- Toll
- A Symphony for Other Cultures
- The Lament
- Sonic Landscapes
- Siren Song
- Seed
- Ship to Shore
- Oracle
- Re-Entry Vehicle; Natural Science in the Spirit World
- Naughty Apartment
- Mute in TalkTown; the sweet warm breath of science
- Meta-Diva
- Metamorphoses
- Leaven
- La Zona del Silencio
- Host
- Gyro-Diva
- Haiku
- Everything’s Nice with American Rice
- Silent Forest
- Drift
- Dual-Nature (Ebb and Flow).
- Din
- Die Melodie der Welt; Bringing Home the Bacon
- Aura