Scorescapes 2008 – 2010 (in progress)
Fishing for Sound; Tropical Storm; Pink Noise; Ponce Inlet; Now Stripe Time; Scorescape Spectograms
On sound, its image and its role in relating humans and their technologies to the environment. Largely on underwater sounds and making the inaudible audible, includes performances, installations, graphic images, a new instrument and writings.
Project working diary http://www.scorescapes.net
Scorescape Spectograms
A series of images made from the field recordings using spectrogam imaging
Dolphin echolocating and Image of the sound of rain
Tropical Storm
Sound and video installation, field recordings of a tropical storm create a room full of rain. Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida. June 2009.
Pink Noise
of The Pink Noise of Pleasure Yachts in Turquoise Sea
Video and sound installation using underwater recordings collected at a National Marine Reserve in Spain during a Sunday in August.
Fishing for Sound – performance at Sonic Acts XIII, Pardiso, Amsterdam
A sea of spatial connections between phenomena underwater, in the mind, and from outer-space. The performance weaves sounds from scientific analysis of marine environments, sounds used in psychological treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, and sonified data from satellites orbiting the Earth. All share in a mass of background noise, sounding in the contexts of environment, memory and information. Listening in these spaces is like fishing for sounds.
Documentation video of performance, 27/02/2010 Sonic Acts Festival
Pink Noise Installation in Berlin 2010
Documentation video of the installation of Pink Noise during the group exhibition ‘Esemplasticism: The Truth is a Compromise‘ at Club Transmediale Festival in Berlin 29 Jan -28 Feb 2010
Sound and video recorded at a National Marine Reserve Balearics Spain.
Ponce Inlet
Collaborative work by Erik DeLuca, Charles Stankievech, Yolande Harris. Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center, Miami Florida, November 2009.
Ponce Inlet is an immersive, spatialized, hypnotic sonic exploration of a narrow body of water, an entrance, which connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Intracoastal waterway and the Indian River in Florida. The material for the composition was recorded with an array of three hydrophones, mapped by the triangular shape of a boat’s hull and a set of air microphones used to capture the simultaneous sounds produced in air.
Publications on Scorescapes
‘Dolphins, Spectograms and Scorescapes: an interview with Yolande Harris’ by Morgan Currie, Masters of Media Blog, University of Amsterdam, 2009