Nigel Helyer

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 of Halley, the astronomer and the other the home of William Blake the poet. 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 a Sydney based Sculptor and Sound Artist with an international reputation for his large scale sonic installations, environmental sculpture works and new media projects.

He has recently developed a ŒVirtual Audio Reality¹ system in collaboration with Lake Technology (Sydney). He is an honorary faculty member in Architectural Acoustics at the University of Sydney and is engaged in ongoing research projects in Virtual and Environmental Audio at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales. During 2003 he is a visiting Professor at Stanford University and is also undertaking creative research work at the ³SymbioticA² bio-technology lab at the University of Western Australia.

Nigel is a co-founder and commissioner of the ³SoundCulture² organisation; a fellow of the Australia Council for 2002/3, the winner of the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award 2002 and the curator of ³Sonic-Differences² as part of the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth 2004..

SONIC OBJECTS; SONIC ARCHITECTURE
Dr. Nigel Llwyd William Helyer
Currently Australia Council Fellow (NMAB) 2002~2003

http://sonicobjects.com
http://magnus-opus.com