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Sherre DeLys

Pool executive producer, media artist, mindfulness meditation practice group leader

Work

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Skills and Interests

social media, audio art, social innovation, sound installation, sound sculpture, creative commons licensing, new business models for artists, new roles for media workers, meditation, buddhist philosophy, 'the mindful brain', 'mindfulness based stress reduction' and training to teach it, improvised music, writing, audio documentary, emerging social media genres, practice based research, attunement, 'the neurobiology of we', 'Client Earth'; user focused design processes,

Location

Sydney, Australia

Occupation

Pool executive producer, media artist, mindfulness meditation practice group leader

A bit about me…

As Pool's founder I'm keen to collaborate here to explore territory at the crossroads of public broadcasting and participatory media. With extraordinary challenges and opportunities before us innovative thinking is called for, and in figuring out how to move forward it won’t do to look at what worked before. I trust intuition- not just analysis- and I think we have to invent new solutions with an understanding that their worth can only be proved over time. This is where Pool comes in. While Pool is a place where people from inside and outside ABC share creative work and make projects together, it’s also a predictive project exploring the future of public broadcasting. My feeling is that by working together on this platform we’re devloping something unique and important. If you have energy for this project, let me know if I can help.


I love to collaborate. I've worked with artists, electronics geeks, writers, and architects to make many sound installations and sound scultptures for public spaces - some tiny and some huge like Gargalesis, a 6 metre 'gossiping white-ant mound' on the lawn of the MCA Sydney. That was a collaboration with sculptor Joan Grounds with whom I worked for more than a decade. You can see our work here (our new site's under construction, so bear with please.). The sound installations haven't always been in an art context, sometimes they were closer to functional design like sound sculputres Joan and I made for hospitals or six sound installations around Sydney harbour made for for the 2000 Olympics in collaboration with architect Tim Williams. There's a bit about the design strategies behind Floating Hotels here.

I've worked too with some of my favourite writers, musicians and producers to create radio art. For a look behind the scenes at how one radio collaboration with Rick Moody and Chris Abrahams was organised around email and random principles, and to see a video of Rick leaning into the camera, like he was looking through the frame into my workroom and pulling topics out of a hat read this interview.

During the 80's I worked as a solo performer improvising with voice and tape manipulation, and I formed the Australian experimental band Mind Body Split with Jim Denley, Rik Rue and Jamie Fielding. Since then I've created sound design for Sydney Theatre Company, hosted a series of conversations with composers for ABC TV, taught and published on audio art and documentary.

My work has taken me to many countries, and given me a great network of friends and collaborators. I'm looking forward to extending those links through Pool.

Currently working on…

developing my skills as a meditator, mindfulness in daily life

Interested in joining others to work on…

research in action at the intersection of broadcast and participatory media.

Personal website

[ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sherre-delys/4/96a/88 ]

Groups

[AudioNomad]   [Do not go gentle...]   [Gene Pool]   [Memory Flows]   [Music Features]   [Sound Pool]   [The Flickerman]