Category: The Artist
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Echo and Narcissus; and the contest for aural space.
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…
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Biography
Getting close and Personal. Each night I would have the same dream, I was four years old, lying awake, afraid to fall asleep, afraid to enter that inevitable landscape. The ground surface was uniformly smooth, formed of dense iron plates extending to a featureless horizon line. Roaring from this iron ground and billowing all around…
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Practice
Nigel Helyer (a.k.a. Dr. Sonique) is an Australian based Sculptor and Sound Artist with an international reputation for his large-scale sonic installations, environmental sculpture works and new media projects. His practice is actively interdisciplinary linking creative practice with scientific research and development. His research activities include; the development of Virtual Audio Reality systems in collaboration with…
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CV
Sonic Objects; Sonic Architecture Dr. Nigel Llwyd William Helyer Helyer_CV_19:04:2015.pdf sonic <@> sonicobjects.com sonique1 <@> icloud.com 62 MacGibbon Parade, Old Erowal Bay NSW 2540 Australia Mobile: +614 19 49 34 95 Mobile: +61 (0)4 19 49 34 95 Introduction: – The small Sussex fishing village in which I spent my childhood contained two significant buildings,…
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Consultancy
Consultancy In parallel to undertaking exhibition and public art projects, Sonic Objects; Sonic Architecture applies its expertise and research network to the creative resolution of design and development problems. Sonic Objects; Sonic Architecture offers consultancy services in the following areas. The design, development and construction of sound exhibits for Museums and Public spaces. Conceptual and…
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Copyright and Intellectual Property Statement
©opyright for all material presented on this site is held by Dr. Nigel Helyer unless contra-indicated. Text and Images may be freely quoted for bona-fide research or educational purposes but may not be used for any commercial purposes without the express permission of the author. ©opyright clearance requests and requests for high resolution images and…
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Privacy
Contents Introduction to this Policy Information Logging Collection and Storage of Personal Information Data Email Contact Cookies Disclosure External Links Server Security Introduction to this Policy National Arts and Cultural Alliance (hereafter referred to as sonicobjects) is committed to protecting your privacy, including while, and as a result of, your interaction with our website https://www.sonicobjects.com…
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Terms
Contents Introduction Copyright Editorial Policy Third Party Pages Your use of the website https://www.sonicobjects.com (hereafter referred to as the ‘Site’) is subject to the following terms and conditions. By accessing, browsing, or registering on the mailing list with this Site you accept these terms and conditions. Copyright All content on this site is subject to…
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Research and Development
Early days: – The small Sussex fishing village in which I spent my childhood contained two significant buildings, significant not for their formal qualities, they were both simple cottages, but because one had been the home William Blake the poet, whist the other, Comet Cottage was named for the astronomer Halley. Without being conscious of…
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The sound in this site
It is ironic that the website of a Sound Artist contains very little audio material. This is, of course, intentional, the principal reasons being that I place a strong emphasis on the experience of a work in-situ, mediated as it is by the environmental context and the listening trajectory of the viewer/auditor. Secondly, the majority…