Run Silent, Run Deep is an iteration of a series of projects by Nigel Helyer that began in 1999 with the Sonic Lanscape’s project and continued in Collaboration with Daniel Woo and Chris Rizos of the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales. The Audio Nomad system was also used in the related Helyer/Woo projects, Syren (2004) used Port Jackson in Sydney as its subject, and Eco-Located (2009) used Belfast Port and the North Sea as its subject. This series has developed as a major continuing feature of the International Symposium of Electronic Arts having featured in Sydney in 2004, Singapore in 2008, and in Belfast in 2009.
Run Silent, Run Deep is the 2008 Singapore Iteration of the series and involved a mapping of the Marine environment of Singapore harbour onto an immersive and interactive sonic topology that the user can explore via a projected visual interface.
The Audio Nomad project involves the representation of geo-tagged, recorded, media including images, video, sound, juxtaposed with the sonification of geo-spatial information. This reconstitution of this collected data in a sonic topology allows a user to navigate a soundscape in which recorded histories, unseen ecological dynamics, and visceral field recordings are evocatively juxtaposed to reveal otherwise forgotten, marginalised, or assumed networks of relation.