[Reader-list] Opening today at Portugal Cultural Center-Delhi | Nigel Helyer | Take a Deep Breath ~ Breathless | Sound Reasons Festival |

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*Take a Deep Breath ~ Breathless*

*A sound work by Nigel Helyer at the Portuguese Cultural Centre, Delhi, 
India.*

  Part of the *Sound Reasons Festival* | 
http://soundreasons.in/artists-festival/

Location: 4, *Panchsheel Marg, Chanakya Puri, * New Delhi, DL 110021, India

Cultural Centre entry via lane behind Portuguese Embassy.*tel: 011 4602 
5135*

*Opening*; Sunday 4th November 16h00 ~ 18h00

*Exhibition timming: *Monday 5th ~ Sunday 11th November 11h00 ~ 18h00.

The Work:

*Take a Deep Breath ~ Breathless**,* is a new work commissioned by the 
Sound Reasons, Sonic Cities Festival curated by Ish Shehrawat in Delhi, 
India. Take a Deep Breath ~ Breathless, is a development of my current 
research into the sonification of environmental data and the 
installation of the resulting sound works into public or architectural 
space. Conceptually the work is structured in two parts, one originating 
in a social and cultural context, the other ecological and environmental 
~ the aim of the work being to integrate and interrogate the 
relationship between these spheres, and present them in an outdoor urban 
environment.


*Creative motivation:*

My practice is increasingly focussed upon bringing together the physical 
and ecological environment together with our social and cultural 
contexts. Using the media of multichannel sound installation; 
data-sonification and sonic cartography these hybrid works are designed 
to create new forms of sonic space in which it is possible to 
experience, examine and reflect upon the complexities and consequences 
of our interactions in an increasingly chaotic world.


*Concept:*

Take a Deep Breath ~ Breathless, concerns the atmosphere, the breath and 
the act of breathing. Breathing as meditation, as respiration, failing 
breath in respiratory diseases, the breathy sounds of our voices, of 
song and flute ~ the metaphor of breath as life itself. Hence the audio 
library which I shall establish in my one month working visit to Delhi 
will embrace and record a wide range of ambient, vocal, environmental 
and musical sounds, establishing what I term as an AudioPortraitof the 
environment.


*Techniks:*

The scientific data will be sourced directly from the City's atmospheric 
monitoring system which provides a constant and (somewhat alarming) 
stream of digital information on the levels of pollutants in the Delhi 
atmosphere.


The system consists of two components ~ firstly a large audio library 
that is capable of being updated via wifi ~ the second element being a 
correspondingly large library of data-sets.   The system selects a sound 
file and data file at random and convolves them to render two stereo 
audio streams to the driver array installed (in this case in 
architectural space). One stereo pair is the unadulterated audio file 
and the other is a harmonic data-music that reveals some of the data 
structure, but which also has a sonic imprint of the audio original.

Artist archive: http://www.sonicobjects.com

Contact Artist sonique1 at me.com <mailto:sonique1 at me.com>

*Sound Reasons Festival* http://soundreasons.in/

*Contact curator Ish Shehrawat* ish at sarai.net <mailto:ish at sarai.net>

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