Lawrence English

Lawrence English (born 1976) is a composer, media artist and curator living in Brisbane, Australia. For well over a decade he has been an increasingly active and vibrant force in Australian sound art and experimental music - both as a creator and curator.

Sound works

His recorded work is widely published on a variety of respected labels including Touch Music, Crónica, Baskaru, Winds Measure and numerous others.

His sound works move across a broad range of spheres from electronic based composition, through to evocative field recordings that seek to reveal those sound spaces largely ignored or inaudible. His Studies For Stradbroke edition for example drew out a variety of hydrophonic atmospheres from Stradbroke Island - capturing sounds as delicate as sand grains in motion.

As a producer English has worked extensively to develop a unique perspective on the possibilities of deconstruction of expectation with song form - working for artists such as Tujiko Noriko, Tenniscoats and The Rational Academy amongst others.

Selected discography

• 2001 – Map51F9 (IAG)
• 2002 – David Toop, Scanner, I/O3 – A Picturesque View, Ignored (room40)
• 2003 – Object – Pandemic (Quatermass)
• 2004 – Ghost Towns (room40)
• 2004 – Overland (Naturestrip)
• 2004 – Transit (Cajid)
• 2005 – Limnology (Autumn)
• 2005 – Plateau with Ai Yamamoto (Phonostique)
• 2005 – Happiness Will Befall (Crónica)
• 2005 – Blurred In My Mirror with Tujiko Noriko (room40)
• 2006 – Suikinkutsu (Autumn)
• 2006 – One Plus One with Philip Samartzis (room40)
• 2007 – For Varying Degrees Of Winter (Baskaru)
• 2007 – Object – Asobi (Sensory Projects)
• 2007 – Merola Shoulders with Domenico Sciajno (Phonostique)
• 2008 – Kiri No Oto (Touch)
• 2008 – Studies For Stradbroke (Winds Measure)
• 2008 – U with Tujiko Noriko and John Chantler (room40)
• 2008 – Euphonia with Tom Hall (Baskaru)
• 2008 – It's Up To Us To Live (Sirr)
• 2009 – HB with Francisco López (Baskaru)

Artworks

Lawrence English has exhibited a variety of auditory, kinetic, public and structural artworks that are primarily concerned with a notions of incidental experience, site specificity and environment.

• 2001 – Medi@ Terra, Frankfurt
• 2002 – Sound Spaces, Perth
• 2002 – Variable Resistance, San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art
• 2002 – Invisible Cities, Belfast Festival At Queens
• 2003 – Sounds Like, Performance Space, Sydney
• 2003 – Inna (as part of PrimeTwo at Queensland Art Gallery)
• 2004 – On Conflict And Agreement, Barcelona
• 2004 – SIGHT Site, Tokyo Japan
• 2004 – Isentropic Process, SOOB, Brisbane
• 2005 – Ghost Towns, Artspace, Auckland
• 2005 – Window Standpoint Series
• 2006 – Isentropic Process 1-100Hz, The Window, QPAC, Brisbane
• 2006 – Silence Listening, QSM, Brisbane
• 2006 – LEFRAUSNZNWSD1/2, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
• 2007 – Re: Collections, State Library Of Queensland
• 2007 – Triumvirate, Old Museum Of Brisbane with Kim Demuth + Eluned Lloyd
• 2007 – Bathe, as part of Grey Water IMA with Toshiya Tsunoda
• 2008 – Trio For Objects (MSSR)

Curation

English curates the acclaimed labels Room40 and Someone Good, as well as an ongoing series of sound art and electronic music series including MONO, Fabrique, Syncretism and NineHoursNorth which are active across Australia, New Zealand and parts of Asia.

His conceptually driven sound art exhibitions Melatonin - Meditations On Sound In Sleep (commissioned by the Next Wave Festival), On Isolation (commissioned by the University Of Tasmania), Incidental Amplifications (co-curated by Lloyd Barrett), Audible Geography (commissioned by the and Airport Symphony (commissioned by the Queensland Music Festival)

References

• http://www.room40.org/
• http://www.lawrenceenglish.com/
• http://www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/english.html
• http://www.abc.net.au/arts/adlib/stories/s891588.htm
• http://artforum.com/words/id=20874
• http://pinkushion.com/chroniques.php3?id_article=3943 review on Pinkushion

External links

• http://www.lawrenceenglish.com/
• http://www.room40.org/
• http://www.someonegood.org/