Yolande Harris

 Sun Run Sun: On Sonic Navigations (2007 – 2009)

Satellite Sounders; Dead Reckoning; Sun Running; Navigating by Circles

      

Sun Run Sun, investigates contemporary, historical and animal techniques of navigation through the use of sound. Charting a path between environmental engagement and technological development, Sun Run Sun explores the relationship between the embodied experience of location and the calculated data of position. A continuously changing musical composition is generated from signals of navigation satellites in orbit, together with the participant’s coordinates on earth. By exploring the individual experience of navigation technologies through the intimate and immersive qualities of sound, it re-establishes and renegotiates a sense of embodied connectedness to one’s environment.

Project blog http://sunrunsun.nimk.nl

 

Satellite Sounders

The Satellite Sounders are handheld custom-made instruments that allow one to listen to the changing satellite data while walking. They consist of a GPS antenna and receiver, a small Linux processor converting the data into sound, a rechargeable battery and stereo headphones. They are presented as walks with the artist.

Satellite Sounding (short version)

 

Satellite Sounders walk during exhibition Playing the City at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, May 2009

 

    

 

Dead Reckoning

Dead Reckoning is a site-specific, multi-channel sound and data projection installation. Sound is generated from a fixed GPS receiver that continuously calculates a different position, emphasising the satellites in motion at an apparently drifting location.

  

 

Sun Running

The sound performance Sun Running, combines recordings of satellite sounds from around the world with environmental recordings and voices of participant reactions to the Satellite Sounders.

 

Navigating by Circles

Video and sound installation, exhibited at CCNOA Brussels 2007 and <>TAG Den Haag 2008. Looking through the lens of a sextant, trying to fix the sun on the horizon from a moving boat, the sound are electronic sonifications of the same process done by GPS.

 

Acknowledgements

Sun Run Sun was produced by the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMK) during the Artist in Residence, November 2007 – April 2008 in collaboration with STEIM Amsterdam.

Software development of the Satellite Sounders by Sukandar Kartadinata.

Software development of the GPS data parser in PureData by Damian Stewart.

Hardware instrument building of the Satellite Sounders by Jorgen Brinkman of STEIM .

Video documentation by Ward ten Voorde (Satellite Sounders) and Sami Kallinen (Dead Reckoning).

Many thanks to Annet Dekker.

 

Presentations in exhibitions, festivals and events April 2008 – May 2009:

Sun Run Sun: Satellite Sounders, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt

Sun Run Sun: Satellite Sounding WEALR09, California State University, Los Angeles

Sun Run Sun: Sun Running, Netherlands Royal Society of Musicology, Utrecht

Sun Run Sun: Satellite Sounding, Luister Salon, Korzo, Den Haag

Sun Run Sun: Sun Running performance, Netherlands Film Festival, Utrecht

Sun Run Sun: Satellite Sounders, Picnic09 Virtueel Platform, Amsterdam

Sun Run Sun: artist lecture, Royal College of Music, London

Sun Run Sun: artist lecture, ISEA08, Singapore

Sun Run Sun: artist lecture, Orpheus Institute for Advanced Research in Music, Ghent

Sun Run Sun: Satellite Sounders, NIME08, Museum of Contemporary Art, Genova

Sun Run Sun: Satellite Sounders, Temporary Museum 2008, Amsterdam

Sun Run Sun artist lecture, Design Media Arts, UCLA, Los Angeles

Sun Run Sun: Satellite Sounders, V2_Insitute for Unstable Media, Rotterdam

Sun Run Sun: Sun Running, STEIM (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music), Amsterdam

Sun Run Sun: artist lecture, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam

Sun Run Sun: Satellite Sounders, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam

Sun Run Sun: Dead Reckoning, Netherlands Media Art Institute Amsterdam

Sun Run Sun: artist lecture, Mediamatic, Amsterdam

Sun Run Sun: Amphibian, Dag in de Branding Festival and <>TAG, Den Haag

 

Publications of Sun Run Sun

http://sunrunsun.nimk.nl , on-line project diary and documentation by Yolande Harris

‘Dolphins, Spectograms and Scorescapes: an interview with Yolande Harris’ co-authored by Yolande Harris and Morgan Currie, Masters of Media Blog, University of Amsterdam, 2009

‘Aiming for Dead Reckoning: A conversation between Yolande Harris and Annet Dekker’, co-authored by Yolande Harris and Annet Dekker , in Brickwood, Cathy and Annet Dekker (eds.), Navigating E-Culture (Amsterdam: Virtueel Platform, 2009) with video documentation of Sun Run Sun on DVD.

‘A Journey Through Sound: an interview with Yolande Harris’ co-authored by Yolande Harris, Carmen Hutting and Annet Dekker, TagMag 5, <>TAG publication, Den Haag 2008 

A-minima:: New Media Art Now, Barcelona forthcoming edition 24, 2009

Art and Electronic Media, Edward Shanken (Phaidon 2009) mention of A Collection of Circles (2005) and Sun Run Sun (2008) in Survey chapter.

‘Sun Run Sun and Taking Soundings’ in Atau Tanaka et al. eds. Creative Interactions – The Mobile Music Workshop 2004 – 2008, University for Applied Arts, Vienna, 2008

‘Het Nieuwe Media Effect’ Thijs Witty in Xi 17.1 Kwartaalblad over Film, Televisie en Nieuwe Media, University of Amsterdam 2008)

‘Sun Run Sun, perceiving spaces after GPS’, by Vito Campanelli in Neural.it 4 June 2008
http://www.neural.it/art/2008/06/sun_run_sun_perceiving_spaces.phtml

‘Media Art in Pulic Space in the Netherlands’ by Heiner Holtappels, Eyeball Media Arts Web-zine, Korea April 2008, http://www.eyeball.or.kr/entry/Netherlands

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