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LAWRENCE HARVEY

contact: lawrence.harvey@rmit.edu.au

Project Involvement

    Memory Games
    Information Spaces
    Future Sound
    City Sounds
    Citysounds 2.0 - ADR
    Australian Research Council (ARC) - Grants
    SSCAD
    Fermata
    LivingLab 01 : Vertigo

In 2003, Lawrence Harvey was appointed to the position of Lecturer in the recently established SIAL Sound Studios.

His practice involves the research and production of large-scale electroacoustic works for concerts and installations, and the development of new pedagogical techniques for sound based studies in architecture.

As a composer and sound designer, he has worked collaboratively on projects in music, theatre, dance and virtual reality, mostly using spatial sound systems. His recent teaching work has involved the application of emerging games technologies for teaching architecture students soundscape studies.

He is a founding member of Metraform, an interdiscplinary research group investigating the use of VR technologies for complex visual and aural spatial experience. >Metraform presented Symbiosis in the 2001 Melbourne International Film Festival, and this year completed a commission from the Digital Media Fund of Film Victoria to produced Ecstasis: Human Presence in Digital Environments. The interactive 8 channel soundscape design for Ecstasis was completed in MAX/MSP in which continual modulation of three layers of sound is a feature of the acoustic environment that envelopes the 3D graphics of this group interactive experience.

In 2002 he worked with David Pledger and nyid to produce the soundscape for “K”, which premiered in the Melbourne Festival that year, and later toured to the 2003 Vienna Festwochen. Another MSP environment was used to create a flexible interactive system for managing and playing banks of sound files, closely integrated to the script and stage cues over a 12 speaker system.

His curatorial projects include The Reflective Space, (1996) a series of ten electroacoustic concerts in Melbourne produced by Contemporary Music Events and the Sound and Contemporary Music Series (1997-98) for the Next Wave Festival. This programme consisted of 15 concerts, sound installations, and other events produced via a partnership between the Next Wave Festival, the Australian National Academy of Music, ABC Classic FM, the National Sound and Film Archive and the Goethe Institut. He has also directed concerts for the 1996 and 2002 Computer Music Conferences, and Island and Canopies for the 2003 Acoustic Ecology Conference in Melbourne.

Other works include L'image du feu dans l'eau (1996) for percussion quartet and 4 channel tape, eX (1997) for double bass, electronics and tape, FlightPaths: radiophonic, (1998) with berni m janssen, waiting (1998) for DW'98 with choreography by Sandy Parker, The Occupation of Space: Sound Sites, (1999) an exhibition of 24 acoustic moments created from interviews with sight impaired individuals to determine how they negotiate space by aural means, hearth (1999) texts by berni m janssen and Canopies, chimerical acoustic environments (2000) for the Southgate promenade.

Following undergraduate studies at the Canberra School of Music, he completed a Master of Music (Composition), at the University of Melbourne, and the 8 month course at Les Ateliers UPIC (now CCMIX) in Paris.

He is currently undertaking a PhD in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT University researching spatial sound design.

Education
PhD – in progress – RMIT University, Faculty of Architecture and Design.
Master of Music (Composition) University of Melbourne.
Les Ateliers UPIC, Paris - 8 month course in Composition and Computer Music.
Bachelor of Music (Composition), Canberra School of Music.

National and International affiliations
• Researcher, Audio Spatialisation Group, Australasian Centre for Interaction Design (ACID)
• Researcher, Connected Communities Group, Australasian Centre for Interaction Design (ACID)
• Member, steering committee for the Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship conference projects
• International representative for the Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology (AFAE), on World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) Board

Awards, grants & fellowships
• Winner ATOM Award in the Best General Experimental category with Metraform 7 June 2003
• Special Mention with Metraform, ATOM Awards 2002
• Creative Commission Grant from Cinemedia with Metraform, 2001 & 2002.
• RMIT Postgraduate Scholarship, 2000 – 2002.
• Australia Council Residency, Paris, 1997
• Export and Touring Grant, Arts Victoria, 1997
• Churchill Memorial Fellowship, 1995-96
• Professional Development Grant, Australia Council, 1995
• Touring Grant, Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council, 1991
• Grant to an Individual by the A.C.T. Arts Development Board, 1991

Summary of contract positions prior to 2003
• Associate Researcher in Acoustic Ecology and Soundscape Studies, RMIT University (2000-2002)
• Guest artist for Collaborations Intensive with NYID, VCA Centre for Ideas (June 5-11 & June 27 July3, 2002)
• Guest presenter, Australian National Academy of Music, (1999)
• Program Coordinator for Sound and Contemporary Music Program Next Wave Festival and Australian National Academy of Music (Concurrent) (1997-1998)
• Part-time tutor, Faculty of the Constructed Environment, RMIT University (1997)
• Curator for The Reflective Space Contemporary Music Events (1996)
• Part-time Lecturer and Concert Office Assistant, University of Melbourne (various positions between 1993-1995)
• Technical Officer, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra (1990-1993)
• Part-time Lecturer, School of Music, Canberra (1989)

Projects, events and presentations

2005 forthcoming
• SPECTRUM 02, performance of the SIAL Sound Studios, December
• K, international performances with theatre company not yet its difficult, October
• Invited panel member and chair, National Music Technology Conference,
Melbourne 20 May

2005
• CitySounds, soundscape survey project for the City of Melbourne
• Conference Presentations:
Designing for Diversity, Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) Conference, Vancouver 27 April – 2 May
Inside-Out Conference, Interior Designers and Educators Association, Melbourne, 22-24 April

2004
• Ecstasis with Metraform, Ars Electronica Centre exhibition, Linz, 7 September
• Ecstasis with Metraform, Biennial of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP), John Curtin Gallery, Perth 10 September - 12 December
• Ecstasis with Metraform, Architectural Biennial, Beijing, 20 September-6 October
• SPECTRUM 01 – inaugural concert series of the SIAL Sound Studios at Horti Hall, 3-4 December
• Conference presentations:
Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship, Copenhagen, 12-14 February
Sensoria Festival of Design Education, Melbourne, 28 July

2003
• Island & Canopies, artistic direction and performance, Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology Conference, Federation Sq Melbourne, 22 March
• K with nyid, Vienna Festival, Museums Quarter Vienna, 8-11 May
• Soundsites, SOUNDplay Tranzmedia Arts Festival Toronto, 9-12 October
• Conference presentations:
DAC Conference, Ecstasis showings 23-24 May

2002
• A.R.S.E project in Next Wave Festival with Metraform 17-26 May
• Guest artist for Collaboration Intensive with NYID, VCA Centre for Ideas, 5-11 June & 27 June-3 July
• Australian Computer Music Conference concerts, concert management, Victorian College of the Arts, 6-8 July
• Sound design for K with nyid, Museum Victoria, Melbourne Festival, 23 October-2 November
• Canopies, LiveWires Sydney Conservatorium, 20 November, 2002

2001
• Canopies (concert version), CREATE, University of California, Santa Barbara 17 May
• Symbiosis - six eight minute multichannel soundscapes, with Metraform, 22 screenings at Melbourne International Film Festival, Virtual Reality Centre, RMIT University, 21-30 July
• L'image du feu dans l'eau version A concert at Monash Conservatorium of Music, 5 August
• Other activities:
Guest editor for "Sounds Australian", Journal of the Australian Music Centre
Vice-president, Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology (AFAE)

2000
• Canopies, chimerical acoustic environments. An installation on the promenade of the Southgate Arts Precinct, drawing on the rhythmic motions created by movements and sonic echoes of natural forces. Commissioned for Texture Southgate public arts program, January 18 - April 21
• Soundsites, Paralympic Arts Festival exhibition, Seymour Centre, 16-28 October
• Home, mentor for community arts project, Richmond Community Health Centre
• Other Activities:
Coordinator for Resonance: Forum Series of the Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology.
Founding member of Metraform and development of 3D soundscapes for virtual reality projects
Creative development with theatre company, NYID, for The Trial, later re-titled K.

Selected Projects, events and presentations prior to 2000

1999
• Australian National Academy of Music, seminars in producing electroacoustic and contemporary music performances.

• The Occupation of Space: Soundsites, an exhibition of 24 acoustic moments created from interviews with sight impaired individuals to determine how they negotiate space by aural means. Each moment presents an experience of various acoustic memories, impressions, signals and environments. Curated by Samantha Comte, funded by the Melbourne City Council at Span Galleries, presented as part of the Melbourne Festival.

1997-98
• Coordinator for both Next Wave Festival and the Australian National Academy of Music Sound and Contemporary Music Series that included a programme of 15 concerts at the South Melbourne Town Hall, May 15 – 31.

1996
• Curator of The Reflective Space, ten electroacoustic concerts in Melbourne, with Contemporary Music Events, November.

• Awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship and a Creative Development Grant from the Australia Council to study composition and computer music at Les Ateliers UPIC, Paris. October 1995 – May.

• Finalist in the ABC Computer Composition Award, November.

PRINT PUBLICATIONS

Book Chapters: refereed

Harvey, L and Moloney, J. “ResoundingCities: Acoustic Ecology and Games Technology”. in
J.D. Wulfhorst and Anne K. Haugestad (eds.): Building Sustainable Communities: Ecological Justice and Global Citizenship. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. Forthcoming in 2005.

Conference publications: refereed

Harvey, L and Tengono, Y. “CitySounds, an immersive survey investigating diverse aural experiences”. Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) Conference, Vancouver 27 April-1 May, 2005. Refereed abstract and paper presentation.

Harvey, L. “Listening niches in the continuum of hearing”. Publication of the 2004 Sensoria Conference, School of Interior Design, RMIT University. (Forthcoming)

Harvey, L. “The aural eye: soundscape practice and pedagogy in design education”. Inside-Out Conference, Melbourne, 22-24 April, 2005. (Publication to follow).

Harvey, L and Moloney, J. “Visualization and ‘Auralization’ of Architectural Design in a Game Engine Based Collaborative Virtual Environment”. Proceedings of the Information Visualisation, Eighth International Conference on Information Visualization (IV'04), 2004
Harvey, L and Moloney, J. “Resounding Cities: Acoustic Ecology and Games Technology”. Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship Conference, Copenhagen. February, 2004. Accessed April 29, 2005 from
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing/idp/eBooks/ejgcindex.htm

Burry, Harvey, Moloney, More. “Implementing Nonlinear Sound Strategies within Spatial Design:Learning sound and spatial design within a collaborative virtual environment.” Melbourne Digital Art and Culture Conference, 2003.

Burry, Harvey and More. “Understanding Spatial Information with Integrated 3D Visual and Aural Design Applications”– ACADIA Conference, Oct 2002. California State Polytechnic University.

Journal articles: non-refereed

Harvey, L. “Acoustic Ecology – RMIT University,” Soundscape. The Journal of Acoustic Ecology Vol 4, No. 2 (2003): 42-43.

Harvey, L. “Toward and Acoustic Design Repertoire….?” Earshot, Journal of the UK & Ireland Soundscape Community, Forthcoming.

Harvey, L. “Publishing and the WWW”, Sounds Australia No 58. Guest Editor and Editorial.

Harvey, L. "Canopies; chimerical acoustic environments", Chroma, Journal of the Australian Computer Music Association, No. 28, June, 2000.

Harvey, L. "The Occupation of Space; Sound Sites", Journal of the Sonic Arts Network, U.K, No. 13, 2000.

Harvey, L. "Programming the collaboration of elements", Sounds Australian, No. 54, 1999.

Harvey, L. "Envisioning the resonance of a cultural space", Sounds Australian, No.52, 1998.

Harvey, L. "Listening as performance: The Reflective Space", Mesh, Experimenta Media Arts, Issue No 10, 1996.

Harvey, L. "L'image du feu dans l'eau", Chroma, Journal of the Australian Computer Music Association, No21, December 1996.

List of works

Ecstasis (2004), concert version for 4 channel sound diffusion, 15mins 50 secs, Horti Hall, Melbourne, 3 December, 2004 in SPECTRUM 01.

Ecstasis: human presence in digital environments (2001-2003) 8 channel soundscape for stereoscopic VR environment developed in Max/MSP, including interactive head-tracking control. Duration indeterminate. Presented in Melbourne (2003), Perth (2004), Linz (2004), and as digital video with 5.1 mix in Beijing (2004).

K (2002), sound design for theatre company nyid. Duration of production approximately 1hour 10mins. Developed in the Max/MSP environment for 3 x 4 quadraphonic sound systems. Performances in Melbourne (2002), Vienna (2003) & Seoul (2005).

Symbiosis (2001) 8 channel soundscapes for stereoscopic VR environment. Duration 48 minutes. Presented at the Virtual Reality Centre, RMIT University, for Metraform’s Melbourne International Film Festival screenings (2001).

Canopies (2001), stereo concert work for sound diffusion. Duration 12 mins 15 secs. Presented at University of California, Santa Barbara (2001) and ACMC Melbourne (2002) and LiveWires, Sydney, (2002), AFAE Conference concert Melbourne (2003).

Canopies, chimerical acoustic environments (2000), an installation for the 140 loudspeaker soundscape system along the promenade of the Southgate Arts Precinct, drawing on the rhythmic motions created by movements and sonic echoes of natural forces. Commissioned for Texture, Southgate public arts program. Duration indeterminate. Melbourne, January 18 - April 21, 2000.

Soundsites (1999), a gallery exhibition on headphones, text and Braille panels. Duration 55 mins. Twenty-four acoustic moments exploring the experience of how blind people use sound to negotiate physical and imaginitive spaces. Curated by Samantha Comte, funded by City of Melbourne, the Myer and Besen Foundations. Presented at Span Galleries, Melbourne (1999), Paralympics Arts Festival, Seymour Centre, Sydney (2000) and SOUNDplay Tranzmedia Arts Festival Toronto (2003).

hearth 29 electroacoustic miniatures for spoken word performance (1999-2000) text by berni m janssen. Duration approx 15 mins. Various performances in Melbourne 1999 and 2000.

Flight Paths: radiophonic (1998). 2 channel radio work. Duration approximately 40 mins. Broadcast on Poetica, ABC Radio National, Saturday 23 May, 1998.

FlightPaths, installation (1997). 2 channel installations in tram-stops along Swanston Street, Melbourne. Duration indeterminate. Funded by City of Melbourne and created in association with bernie m janssen, Next Wave Festival, Neil McLachlan and students of RMIT. Installed for two weeks, September 1997.

waiting (1999) 2 channel electroacoustic music on tape. Duration approx 15 mins. Composed for Danceworks ‘98, July 15 - 25. Broadcast on ABC Classic FM, 3 February 1999.

eX (1997) For double bass, electronics and tape. Duration approx 12 mins. First performed by Roger Dean, The Performance Space in Sydney, Saturday 9 August, 1997. Broadcast on ABC Classic FM, 3 February 1999.

L'image du feu dans l'eau version A (1996) Composed on the UPIC system for 2 or 4 channel tape. Duration approx 15 mins. Premiered Computer Music Workshop in Sydney October, and broadcast on ABC Classic FM November 1996 as part of the ABC Computer Composition Award, ABC Southbank Studios. Monash University, August 5, 2001

L'image du feu dans l'eau version B (1996) Percussion quartet and UPIC system part on 4 channel tape. Duration approx 18mins. Unperformed.

Selected works prior to 1995
Aqua (1995) Performance installation presented in Contemporary Music Events Soundshells at the ABC studios, Southgate.

crosstalk (1994) Tape. Produced for the Audio Clip Project in association with the Listening Room. First Performed at an AMA concert, Elm st Hall, November, 1994.

Aspirance (1993) Tape. First performed at the Linden New Music Series,
May, 1994. Performed at an AMA concert, Elm St Hall, August 28, 1994.

killing cloak (1993) Tape. First performed at the Linden New Music Series,
November, 1993. Performed in ‘Sonoresence’, a concert of the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Melbourne. Performed at ‘Synasthetica’, Canberra, July 1994.

Krotale (1993) Tape. Included in the concert for CompMusic, the Australian Computer Music Conference, Sydney, 1993.

Syreyn (1989. Revised 1993) Trombone quartet, two percussionists. Performed in Canberra in 1989 and at the Summit Brass Festival, Tempi, Arizona USA,1993.

Veil (1992) Piano. Published by Red House in Australian Piano Miniatures book 3, 1992. Warsaw, September 1994. Performed by Michael Kieran-Harvey.

Points on a continuum no.2 (1991) Marimba, electronics. Performed by Timothy Phillips and the composer, 1991.

Five songs on poems by T.E.Hulme (1987) Voice and 'cello. Performed by Canberra Contemporary Music Ensemble in the New Music concert series, 1987.

CD Releases

L'image du feu dans l'eau version A, Anthology of Australian Music on Disc, No. 35, 1999.

waiting/attente, Anthology of Australian Music on Disc. No. 35, 1999.

Aspirance, Assemblies, produced by the Australian Computer Music Association, 1995.

Veil, Piano Miniatures - Recorded by Michael Harvey, produced by Red House