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DrSonique

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Skills and Interests

Music & Audio, Writing, Visual Arts & Photography, Environmental Public Art projects,
Interactive Sound-Installation,
Location aware mobile surround-sound systems,
Art and Science collaborations,

Location

Sydney

A bit about me…

Sonic Objects; Sonic Architecture
The Nature and Culture of Sound

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 the fact, I grew up in a cosmos in which the arts and science were intertwined, it has marked my endeavours ever since.

Nigel Helyer (a.k.a. Dr Sonique) is an independent Sydney based sculptor and sound artist with an international reputation for his large scale sound-sculpture installations, environmental sculpture works, museum interactives and new media projects.

His practice is strongly inter-disciplinary, linking a broad platform of creative practice with scientific research and development in both academic and industrial contexts. His activities include; the development of the “Sonic Landscapes” virtual audio reality system in collaboration with Lake Technology (now Dolby Australia) and the ongoing “AudioNomad” research project in location sensitive Environmental Audio at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales.

Nigel is an honorary faculty member in Architectural Acoustics at the University of Sydney, a Professorial Visiting Fellow at the school of Computer Science and Engineering at NSW University and is the current ABC Radiophonic Fellow.

He has recently held positions as Visiting Professor at Stanford University, Artist in Residence at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland and the Marine Mammal Research Laboratory at the National University of Singapore. He maintains active links with The Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco and the “SymbioticA” biotechnology lab at the University of Western Australia.

Nigel is a co-founder and commissioner of the International “SoundCulture” organisation. He was a Fellow of the Australia Council for 2002/3, the winner of the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award in 2002 and curator of “Sonic Differences” part of the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth in 2004.

Currently working on…

GhosTrain at ABC Radio and the Wireless House commission for the City of Sydney

Interested in joining others to work on…

Research and development of sound art and critical theory.

People also know me as…

DrSonique

Personal website

[ http://www.sonicobjects.com ]