| About:
Luke Harrald is an experimental composer,
from Adelaide, South Australia.
Luke's current work focuses on generative computer music, which aims to embody some aspects of improvised music performance in interactive computer systems.
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| 'Hidden City' performing live in the opening of the 2008 Adelaide Festival of Arts, February 29th 2008. Featuring: Stephen Whittington (piano), Derek Pascoe (sax), Lauren Sutter (Commodore 64) Seb Tomczak (Abelton Live) Luke Harrald (Generative IPD software over a network of 5 computers + projections) Emily Tulloch (violin), Karen De Nardi (viola) and Hilary Kleinig (Cello). Mixed by Christian Haines. |
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| New Music Groups:
An active contributor to the
Adelaide new music scene, Luke has been involved in
the following new music groups:
Tyndall Assembly
(Tristan Louth-Robins, Tyndall Assembly)
Sight Specific Music (PJ Noack and Lilly Leaver)
The Project Series (Michael Yuen, Tom
Szucs & Christian Haines)
Music of Transparent Means (Alex
Carpenter)
ACME New Music Co.

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Recent News
It has been a busy December, with Luke performing live improvisation with the EMU Ensemble to Sergei Eisenstein's silent classic STRIKE as part of the Mercury Cinema's Silent Remasters series on the 4th and the premiere of a newly comissioned work EndGame for the Zephyr Quartet and interactive electronics at the Rocket Bar on the 12th.
A review from the Arts (scene) section of the Advertiser of the Rocket Bar performance can be found here.
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'CONflict' (2004) by Luke Harrald & Hugh McLean as presented in Project 3 Street Cinema, 2006 Adelaide Festival of Arts.
'Irene's Myth' performed live as part of the Sight Specific Music concert series, Greenaway Gallery, Kent Town (2005).
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Above: two stills from the Imaginary Menagerie projections.











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