GeneMusiK 2003 ~ ongoing) experiments with the metaphors of Genes, Memes and Dots as mnemonic structures capable of evolution and embodiment. GeneMusiK creates a re-mix of cultural, social and biological pathways, by hybridising and remixing music notation by coding it as DNA which is synthesised and inserted into Bacterial cultures which transform and restructure the original musical form.

See for more details.

http://www.sonicobjects.com/index.php/projects/more/eine_kleine_genemusik

GeneMusiK_Over the Rainbow_Mutations No.1 and No.2 are currently touring with the FACTT exhibition series

https://cultivamoscultura.com/2018/09/27/factt-ny-is-coming

Here are three short radio episodes created by artist Nigel Helyer for the When Science meets Art collaborative research project based at the Bundanon Trust NSW Australia

Here are three short radio episodes created by artist Nigel Helyer for the When Science meets Art collaborative research project based at the Bundanon Trust NSW Australia

Here are three short radio episodes created by artist Nigel Helyer for the When Science meets Art collaborative research project based at the Bundanon Trust NSW Australia

A stereo mix extracted from a site specific x8 channel audio resonator sound-sculpture installed for Siteworks at the Bundanon Trust NSW, Australia.

http://www.sonicobjects.com/index.php/projects/more/milk_and_honey

Hydrophone recording made near Villa Nova Milfontes, Alentejo, Portugal. Incorporated in the installation "CultCult - audio illumination form the Ocean."

The ‘Under the Icecap‘ art and science collaboration aims to illuminate the fundamental connection between human activities and planetary dynamics, by creating an experimental installation and performance series that will visualise and sonify scientific and statistical datasets. In essence Under the IceCap renders complex environmental bio-logging data-sets collected by Southern Elephant Seals on their under-ice dives and open ocean transits with economic and climatic data, combining them to form 4D cartographic animations, sonifications and live performative and sculptural forms.

The byeline for the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies is Turning Nature into Knowledge. The Under the IceCap project supplies a second line Turning Knowledge into Culture encapsulating a powerful Art and Science synthesis and simultaneously raising the expectation but also the risk of the endeavour.

The complex bio-logging data collected by Southern Elephant Seals on their dives in the Antarctic (and collated as Surface Wind Speed, Depth with Salinity, Depth with Temperature and Ocean Bottom with Bottom Density) are transcribed onto the punch paper music-box system. This a crude but effective Digital to Analogue sonification of data values. This simple prototype illustrates the potential to render tens of simultaneous data streams onto a pianola or disc-klavier for ‘live’ performance.

The primary aim is to produce creative work which is compelling and affective but is at the same time a work of scientific utility tapping into both sides of the brain! The key focus is the relationship of the environmental knowledge generated from Antarctic bio-logging data with the Anthropogenic changes in the biosphere. In “Biologging Retrofit” the complex streams of bio-logging data has been transcribed using a punch tape system on a series of multi-note range music boxes as a short live performance which made its debut at the Australian Computer Music Conference (Sydney 2015). The work was subsequently recorded and broadcast by ABC Radio National and re-presented at the International Conference of Auditory Display (Canberra 2016).

A rare opportunity to record the three female singers from the Sydney debut of Nomanslanding singing the final lament together. Recorded after we closed the project to the public on the last day of the exhibition.

Radio Korcula (Croatia) introducing NIgel Helyer and Cecelia Cmielewski.

Artist Nigel Helyer and Artist/Curator Darko Fritz discuss sound art and the exhibition "Songs from the UnderWorld" (version three) at the Grey)(Space Gallery, Korcula, Croatia.