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Biography

 B.Mus (Canberra), M.Mus (University of Melbourne), PhD (RMIT)

Lawrence Harvey is a Senior Lecturer, responsible for direction of the SIAL Sound Studios, a centre for auditory spatial research, teaching and events, housed in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT University.

Harvey divides his time between direction of the Studios, practice-based research in spatial sound design and performance, and teaching. His research interests are in the design, composition and artistic direction of diverse spatial sound projects, and the auditory spatial experience of listeners. Over the last 10 years his work has expanded from freelance sound designer-composer to design researcher where he leads projects in which electroacoustic practices seek to advance the auditory spatial awareness of students and researchers in the academy and the general community, through an interlocking program of research, teaching and events.

Harvey's interest in the electroacoustic studio as a community of practice dates back to the mid-1990's when he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to research the management and operations of independent electroacoustic music centres in Paris, Amsterdam, London and New York. During this time he completed the Composition and Computer Music Course at Les Ateliers UPIC (later CCMIX). This experience and his work in directing two large-scale series of electroacoustic music concerts (The Reflective Space and Next Wave Festival's 1998 Contemporary Music Series at ANAM) were fundamental in his next role working at RMIT to establish the SIAL Sound Studios.

In 2003 he was appointed full-time lecturer responsible for directing the Studios. Over the next four years he oversaw the construction of the Studios and development of its sound diffusion system, established a post-graduate research cohort, commenced the Spectrum spatial concert series for which he is artistic director, established two cross university electives in soundscape studies and spatial sound diffusion, and led the two CitySounds research projects for the City of Melbourne Noise Unit. From 2006 he led a further two projects for the City of Melbourne: AuditoryCity – a lunchtime concert series in Melbourne's CBD, and  MaterialCity – a soundscape workshop. He is currently chief investigator on Teimu : Garden of Dreams, an ARC Discovery Project, and The Spatial Ensemble an ARC Linkage Project  with industry partners Elision ensemble and the Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Arts. He is also project leader for the Urban Soundscape Group, funded by RMIT University's Design Research Institute, and a member of the Customising Space research group.

While most of his activities now focus on research and projects in the SIAL Sound Studios, he has also maintained collaborative relationships with theatre company not yet its difficult, producing sound designs for their international touring performance of K, and the 2008 Melbourne festival installation The Meaning of Moorabbin. He was also sound designer and founding member of the interdisciplinary digital arts practice Metraform, producing large scale sound designs for their VR projects Symbiosis and Ecstasis.

He has published in journals and books from environmental issues, performance, composition, design, soundscape studies and digital media, cultural studies.

In 2009, he will direct 5 concerts for the new Melbourne Recital Centre, including major works by Stockhausen, Xenakis, Nono, Cage, Varese and Boulez, and continue research on urban soundscape systems of Melbourne.  He completed his PhD The Auditory Centre: Research and Design of Acoustic Environments and Spatial Sound Projects, through the School of Architecture at RMIT in 2009.

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