Lawrence Harvey

Associate Professor Lawrence Harvey is a composer, sound designer, researcher and teacher based in the School of Design at RMIT University, Melbourne. He is founding director of SIAL Sound Studios, a facility established in 2004 and dedicated to research, teaching, and spatial sound in design and music.

His recent collaborations have included The Planting – a futuring work by leading indigenous thinkers and speaker orchestra concerts for the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) and the Design and Sonic Practice (DSP) Research Group at RMIT, and Site and Sound an exhibition and performance program for Mclelland Sculpture Park and Gallery.

He has supervised 20 PhD and Masters completions by candidates researching in spatial sound performance, computer music, technology for sound, architecture, digital modelling, soundscape studies and acoustic ecology, sound installation and acoustics. His peer reviewed publications cover a similar range of topics, and pedagogical approaches to sound in design, speaker orchestra practice, and curating and collecting sonic art.

After establishing the RMIT Speaker Orchestra in the early 2000’s, he has curated, directed and performed 34 concerts on the system. The 32 loudspeaker system can be used for traditional two channel diffusion and a range of multichannel formats. He co-leads the Design and Sonic Practice (DSP) Research Group, and collaborated on founding the RMIT Sonic Arts Collection.

He has directed large research projects funded by the Australian Research Council, and industry funded projects in urban soundscape research and spatial sound performance. In addition to electroacoustic compositions, he has produced gallery and urban sound installations, spatial sound designs for VR and theatre, and performed in Melbourne, Seoul, Huddersfield, The Hague and Vienna. For further details <https://sialsound.studio>