Dr Lawrence Harvey
Group Lead
Lawrence Harvey is a composer, sound designer, and director of SIAL Sound Studios, School of Design, RMIT University. Since 2002, he has led ARC Discovery and Linkage Grants, industry-funded projects, and has 20 PhD or Masters completions with the majority on scholarships. His research and teaching integrate urban soundscape research, acoustic design, and spatial music composition and performance. He has also collaborated in interdisciplinary teaching and research with musicians and artists, interior, digital and industrial designers, and architects. In addition to electroacoustic compositions, he has produced gallery and urban sound installations, spatial sound designs for VR and theatre, and performed around Australia and in Seoul, Huddersfield, The Hague, and Vienna. Harvey has been curator or performer on 25 public concerts for SIAL Sound Studios using the spatial sound diffusion system, a speaker orchestra developed in the Studios. In addition to creative practice outputs, he has 34 peer-reviewed and other publications.
He is founding director of SIAL Sound Studios and continues to direct teaching, research and public events of the Studios.