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Lawrence English (born 1976) is a composer, media artist and curator living in Brisbane, Australia. For over a decade he has been an increasingly active 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.

English cites childhood experiences birdwatching for reed warbler with his father as a large influence on his work. He has stated, "If you just looked in the reeds you'd see nothing. If you listened you got an idea of space and a sense of where it might be, then you understood it. That's probably my first experience with these ideas of space and sound, which are basically the fundamental building blocks of what I've been interested in since then."^[1]

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

^ Clark, Alistair (2010-10-08). "Lawrence English". Crasier Frane. Retrieved 2010-10-08.

External links

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[1] Clark, Alistair (2010-10-08). "Lawrence English". Crasier Frane. Retrieved 2010-10-08.

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