Anton Hasell,

B.Ec., Dip. Ed.,B.F.A, Pg F.A, M.F.A.

Neil McLachlan,

B.Sc hons, Ph.D

Director of Australian Bell Pty Ltd

Senior Research Associate, School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University

Anton Hasell has been a professional sculptor for twenty years.

His Education includes a B.Economics(LaTrobe University), B. Fine Arts(RMIT University), P-G Dip Fine Arts(V.C.A), Master Fine Arts(V.C.A) and Dip Ed(LaTrobe University). He is currently undertaking a PhD in the Architecture and design Department RMIT University.

Anton has an exhibition history of numerous group shows and ten one person shows, both nationally and internationally. Anton has completed ten public space sculpture commissions. Anton has been awarded a VA/CB studio residency at Paretaia, Italy in 1988 and Artist in Residence at James Cook University in 1994. Anton has lectured part time in sculpture at the major tertiary art schools in Victoria, including eight years at the V.C.A.

Anton has maintained his studio art foundry since 1983, and has developed an expertise in the casting of bronze. This has been aided by having travelled extensively to all of the major art foundries in Europe and the U.S.and more recently, to all of the important bell foundries in Europe and Asia. Anton lives with his wife Georgina and two children, Samuel and Matilda, in a bluestone house they built themselves at Mia Mia, Central Victoria.

After completing his doctorate in 1987 at Deakin University and publishing seven research papers in a range of international journals (particularly The Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry), Dr McLachlan decided to pursue his long-term interests in sound and music.

He composed works for a number of international and national dance and theatre companies including the American choreographer Deborah Hay and the Melbourne based company, Danceworks. In 1989 he co-formed the physical-music theatre company GongHouse, which performed at international theatre festivals in Melbourne and in the Philippines and worked within a variety of cultural and educational contexts over a 4 year period. In GongHouse he designed and built a number of tuned percussion ensembles for theatrical performance and other cultural contexts, including a set of thirty, just tuned, cast bronze gongs.

Since 1993 Dr McLachlan has designed and built indoor and outdoor instrument and sound installations in a wide variety of cultural and architectural contexts. In 1995 he began lecturing in acoustic design in the Faculty of the Constructed Environment at RMIT where he was central to the writing and teaching of a minor study in acoustic design and the development of a new acoustic research facility.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

"Hung, Drawn and Sculpted", Judith Pugh Gallery , Melbourne, June 1990

"The Deadcat Road of Curiosity", The Beatty Gallery, Sydney, Nov 1993

"Red Running Tigers", The Beatty Gallery, Sydney, Oct 1994

"Southern Ocean Pearling", The Beatty Gallery, Sydney, Dec 1995

"Leichhardt's Map", The Beatty Gallery, Sydney, Oct 1996

"Submariner's Suit", Westspace Gallery, Melbourne, Dec 1996

"Rat Trap", GOGO Gallery, Northcote, Melbourne, June 1997

"Island Submarine", The Beatty Gallery, Sydney, Sept 1997

"Bellbouy", The Beatty Gallery, Sydney, April 1999

"I wish I were Bigger", The Beatty Gallery, Sydney, April 2000

PUBLIC SPACE COMMISSIONS:

"Eagle and the Lamb" The Warehouse Restaurant, Welded steel Sculptures, Hardware lane, Melbourne, 1989

"Bringing in the sheep", cast bronze, Kyneton Gardens (Windarring Project), 1991

"Lucky Touch Medallion", Cast Bronze, M.C.G Great Southern Stand, 1992

"Bollards", 6 Cast bronze and carved Bluestone sculptures, Yarraville, 1993

"Gates", bronze, steel ,copper and bluestone wall and gates, Linden Gallery 'Children's Sculpture Garden', St Kilda, 1993

"Red Running Tiger", Cast bronze, Richmond Council, 1994 "J.C.U Investigator", Fabricated stainless steel and copper sheet, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 1994

"Tilly Aston Bell", Cast Bronze interactive Bell Sculpture, Myer Music Bowl Gardens Melbourne, 1996

"Raincatcher", Cast bronze water fountain sculpture gifted by Macedon Shire Ranges Council to Sister City Gisborne New Zealand for installation in their botanical gardens, December 1999

" Victoria Police Memorial", with Marcus Ward. Bluestone & granite memorial on St Kilda Road. The commission awarded September 2000 to be completed Sept 2001.

"Beach Road", Cast bronze sculpture for the Princes Laundry Site, City of Kingston, to be completed June 2001

Recent Publications:

1. A. Maher, N. McLachlan and M. Burry, "Design Models For Cross Disciplinary Collaboration", ANZAScA 2002 conference, Deakin University, Australia, November 2002.

2. N. McLachlan, B. K. Nigjeh, and P. Trivailo, "Application of Modal Analysis to Musical Bell Design", AAS 2002 Conference, Adelaide University, Australia, November 2002.

3. S. Kumar, A. Sharma, D. K. Kumar and N. McLachlan, "Classification of Visual Hand Gestures Using Difference of Frames", Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, Ghent University, Belgium, September 2002.

4. N. McLachlan, "Consonance and Self: Musical Efficacy as the Desegregation of Acoustic Space", 4th Int. CAiiA-STAR Research Conference, Curtin University, Australia, June 2002.

5. N. McLachlan, "Sculpting Sound: New Analyses, Designs and Contexts for Bells", Proc. 16th Meeting of the FWO Research Society on Foundations of Music Research, Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music, Ghent University, Belgium, p.1-17, 2002.

6. N. McLachlan, "Divisions of Motion", in Timespace Ed. Jo Scicluna, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia June 2002, SBN 0957748841.

7. N. McLachlan, B. Keramati Nigjeh and A. Hasell, "The Design of Bells with Harmonic Overtones", accepted for publication in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, April 2002.

8. N. McLachlan and D. Cabrera "Calculated Pitch Sensations for New Musical Bell Designs", International Congress on the Perception of Music Conference, ICPMC7, University of Western Sydney July, 2002.

9. S. Silke, N. McLachlan, D. K. Kumar and N. D. Pah, "Environmental Sound Sources Classification Using Neural Networks", ANZIIS 2001, Melbourne University, November 2001.

10. N. McLachlan, "A Spatial Theory of Rhythmic Resolution", Leonardo Music Journal, 10, pp 61-67, 2000.

11. N. McLachlan and B. Keramati Nigjeh, "Investigations of the Vibrational Behaviour of Cylindrical Forms with Application to Musical Instrument Design", EMAC 2000 Proceedings, p 215-218, (2000), The Institute of Engineers, Australia.

12. N. McLachlan, "The Aural Dimension", Architecture Australia, January/February, p 92-93, (2000).

13. N. McLachlan, "Existential Noise", Dialogue, 9, 32-38, (1998).

14. N. McLachlan, "Consonance and Self", Critical Inqueeries, 2 (1), 45-57, (1998).

15. N. McLachlan, "Finite Element Analysis and Gong Acoustics", Acoustics Australia, 25 (3), p103-107, (1997).

Alex Day, B. F. Arts ceramics (centre)

Alex has been employed by Australian Bell to build the high precision sand moulds. Alex is a master potter in his other life and has the patience and skill required to mould resin sands to within the tolerences required in casting harmonic bells.

Behezad Keramti Nigjeh, B.Sc, M. Eng.

Behzad has been employed by Australian Bell to work on the computer modeling of vibration and shape optimisation. His extensive research experience in engineering has been invaluable in both the bell design processes and the conceptualisation of the physical behaviour of bells. Behzad is lecturing and doing his PhD on satelite tether systems in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at RMIT.