Yolande
Yolande Harris (UK) is a composer and artist based in Amsterdam, engaged with sound and image in environment and architectural space. Sun Run Sun (2008) on sonic navigations, and Scorescapes (2009) explore sound, its
image and its role in relating humans and their technologies to the environment. Her work has been presented internationally, including MACBA (Barcelona), Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, NIMk (Amsterdam), V2 (Rotterdam), ISEA Singapore, UCLA, Villa Croce Genova. Significant artist residencies include the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida), STEIM (Amsterdam), Jan van Eyck Academy (Maastricht), Metronom (Barcelona). She held an Artistic Fellowship at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, and was Lecturer in Interaction Design at the Technical University of Eindhoven. Her publications include “Inside-Out Instrument” (Contemporary Music Review 2006) and “The Building as Instrument” (Cambridge Scholars Press 2007). Yolande holds a BA in music from Dartington College of Arts, an MPhil in architecture/moving image from University of Cambridge, and is working on her PhD at the Orpheus Institute Gent. Her current research/practice considers the musical potential of sound worlds outside the human hearing range, through underwater bioacoustics and the sonification of data. In 2009 Yolande was awarded a national artist stipend from the Netherlands Funds for Visual Arts.
http://www.yolandeharris.net
http://www.scorescapes.net
http://sunrunsun.nimk.nl
email contact: yo at yolandeharris.net
Exhibitions, Performances
2010
— Fishing for Sound and Pink Noise, Ear to the Earth Festival, EMF, New York
— Sun Run Sun, in Dutch Media Art, Casa O’Higgins, Lima, Peru
— Taking Soundings and Navigating by Circles, in Ground Level, Hayward Touring / John Hansard Gallery, Southampton UK
— SWAMP II, field recordings, video and 3 acoustic bass improvising musicians, Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin
— New work for Resonator, A/V Festival, Newcastle
— Fishing for Sound sound performance, Sonic Acts Festival, Amsterdam
— Pink Noise video sound installation, in ‘Esemplasticism’, Club Transmediale, Berlin
2009
— Sun Run Sun: Satellite Sounding LuisterSalon, Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam
— Ponce Inlet sound collaboration with Erik DeLuca, Charles Stankievech, Miami Florida
— Now Stripe Time: On tropical rain, dolphins’ echolocation and the pink noise of pleasure yachts in turquoise sea, solo video and sound performance DNK New Music Series, Amsterdam
— S.W.A.M.P. sound concert, Diapason Gallery Brooklyn, New York
— Tropical Storm, sound and video installation, Atlantic Center for the Arts Florida
— Making the Inaudible Audible, sound and video installation, Atlantic Center for the Arts Florida
— Sun Run Sun: Satellite Sounders sound GPS instruments, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
— Sun Run Sun, live performance Art and Electronic Media, Netherlands Media Art Institute Amsterdam
— Sun Run Sun: Satellite Sounding, WEALR09 New Music Festival Cal State University, Los Angeles
— Underwater sounds with Contrabass Flute, Karnatic Lab, Amsterdam
— Hydro sound performance, Karnatic Lab, Amsterdam
— Sun Run Sun sound performance, Netherlands Royal Society of Musicology, Utrecht
2008
— Sun Run Sun: Satellite Sounding, Luister Salon, Korzo Den Haag
— Sun Run Sun performance, Re:Visie / Netherlands Film Festival, Utrecht
— Sun Run Sun: Satellite Sounders sound GPS instruments, PICNIC08 Virtueel Platform Amsterdam
— Taking Soundings scores, sounds and images, MACBA Archive, Barcelona
— Sun Run Sun: Satellite Sounders sound GPS instruments, NIME Contemporary Art Museum Genova
— El Camino work in progress audio-visual performance, LOOS Foundation Den Haag
— Sun Run Sun: Satellite Sounders sound GPS instruments, Temporary Museum Amsterdam
— Sun Run Sun: Satellite Sounders sound GPS instruments, V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam
— Sun Run Sun: Sun Running sound and video performance, STEIM Amsterdam
— Sun Run Sun: Satellite Sounders sound GPS instruments, Netherlands Media Art Institute Amsterdam
— Sun Run Sun: Dead Reckoning sound and video installation, Netherlands Media Art Institute Amsterdam
— Navigating by Circles video and sound installation, Eco-Aesthetics <>TAG Den Haag
— Sun Run Sun: Amphibian sound performance, Dag in de Branding Festival, <>TAG Den Haag
2007
— Navigating by Circles solo video and sound installation, Screen CCNOA Brussels
— Spin sound sensors video trombone with Hilary Jeffery, Sound Souvenirs Symposium, Maastricht
— Taking Soundings 2 solo performance, sound video sextant GPS, Nau Coclea, Catalunya
— Taking Soundings 2 DNK @ Mediamatic, Amsterdam
— Taking Soundings sound installation, SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney
— Inside Out Piano disklavier sound video sensors, Cement Festival, Maastricht
— Inside Out Piano interactive sound installation, disklavier video sensors, Stichting Intro, Maastricht
2006
— Taking Soundings installation/performance Academy of Media Arts, (KHM) Cologne
— Sketch for a Score for an Inside Out Instrument 2Step group exhibition, UH Galleries St Albans UK
— Divide by Zero with Zafer Aracagok, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul
— …the landscape is now an acoustic chamber… performance Academy of Media Arts, (KHM) Cologne
— Sketch for a Score for an Inside Out Instrument Lovely Shanghai Music, group exhibition, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
— Sketch for a Score for an Inside Out Instrument, 2Step, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
— Spin sound sensors video trombone with Hilary Jeffery, Stichting Intro, Maastricht
2004 – 2005
— Helix/Spiral (after Dan Graham) video/sound installation, Stepping Out, JvE gallery Maastricht
— Orbital Open Studio 219, Jan van Eyck Academy Maastricht
— Light Phase VideoDance Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
— Divide by Zero CD with Zafer Aracagok,Ctrl_Alt_Del II Festival, Istanbul
— Meta-Orchestra Mine Facelifters Festival, Coal Mine Building Genk, Belgium
— A Collection of Circles solo interactive sound installation, CCNOA Earwitness Brussels
— Score Spaces performative lecture, Jan van Eyck Academy Maastricht
— Light Phase solo, video voice sound sensors, Jan van Eyck Academy Maastricht
— Meta-Orchestra Stichting Intro | In Situ, Maastricht
— Spark!#1 flute and electronics, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht
— On silence and gaps exhibited email exchange with Michael Archer, MAO Oxford
2001 – 2003
— Between: Two duet for mobile video players Entre Deux, Maastricht
— Live video, Kraakgeluid and Gaudeamus week, STEIM, Amsterdam
— Flute Rebel solo flute and electronics, Mallorca Spain
— Video Walk#1and #2 forest Emporda Spain
— Video Walk#3 beach Emporda Spain
— Tidal Nomad Mad Banda Municipal de Barcelona, LEM festival Barcelona
— Inside-Out video-organ Nau Coclea, Emporda Spain
— Paradise for Video-Organ MediaLabEurope, Dublin
— MediaEval video-organ Casino de Alicante, Spain
— MediaEval video-organ Musica a Metronom, Barcelona
— MetaOrchestra Musica a Metronom, Barcelona
— Digital Day at Media House, video-organ Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona
— Lift and Sagrada stairs video installation, inauguration of MetronomLab, Barcelona
— BAT video-organ Musica a Metronom, Barcelona
— Meta-Orchestra Felix Meritis and de Ijsbreker, Amsterdam
1999 – 2000
— Architecture and Motion single screen video, Dartington, Enlgand
— Explorations in Movement audio-visual moving score, with Evan Parker, Dartington, Enlgand
— Meta-Orchestra Dartington International Summer School, England
— Invisible Cities Sheffield University Music School, England
— Swallows piano and live electronics Dartington International Summer School, England
— Birds for Sculthorpe with Composers Ensemble, Dartington International Summer School, England
— Montbretia prepared piano for Joanna Macgregor, Dartington International Summer School, England
1996 – 1998
— Symphony no.2 Marina for Balearic Orchestra, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
— Walking the Line two pianos with Sam Richards, Dartington College of Arts, England
— Symphony no.1 Sargasso Sail Atlantic Ocean, US
— Walk for an Absent Public Dartmoor, England
— Syrens flutes Dartington College of Arts, England
Lectures
2010
— Scorescapes ORCiM Sound and Score Symposium, Orpheus Institute or Advanced Research in Music, Ghent
— Field:thoughts on field recording Sounding Out International Conference, Bournemouth, UK
— Making the Inaudible Audible: Strategies and Disagreements, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA), Dortmund
— Field:thoughts on field recording artist lecture Sowieso, Berlin
— Tuning In and Spacing Out Collaborative lecture with Edward Shanken, Sowieso, Berlin
— Tuning In and Spacing Out, Collaborative lecture with Edward Shanken, Sonic Acts Festival Amsterdam
2009
— Guest Lecture, ArtScience InterFaculty colloqium, Royal Academy of Art / Royal Conservatory of Music, Leiden University, The Hague
— Now Stripe Time Series opening lecture, DNK New Music Series, Amsterdam
— Scorescapes Laboratory for Applied Bio-Acoustics, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona.
— Scorescapes research presentation, Orpheus Institute for Advanced Research in Music, Ghent
— Scorescapes: between the Map and the Music, invited lecture, Netherlands Royal Society of Musicology (KVNM) Utrecht
2008
— Scorescapes research presentation, Orpheus Institute for Advanced Research in Music, Ghent
— Scorescapes workshop director, Academy of Media Arts (KHM), Cologne
— Sun Run Sun artist lecture, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA), Singapore
— Sun Run Sun artist lecture, Department of Design Media Arts, UCLA Los Angeles
— Sun Run Sun artist lecture, Testlab_Topology V2_Insitute for Unstable Media, Rotterdam
— Sun Run Sun artist lecture, Seminar Netherlands Institute for Media Arts, Amsterdam
— Sun Run Sun artist lecture, Eco-Aesthetics symposium <>TAG, Mediamatic Amsterdam
2007
— Taking Soundings paper presentation/lecture, Mutamorphosis International Conference, Prague
— Opening lecture, Constructing Social Spaces (with Nokia), Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
— Opening lecture Architecture and Cinema course, University of Technology Sydney
— Invited Speaker, Special KCDC Research Seminar, University of Sydney
— Workshop Leader, Art Technology Masters Industrial Design, University of Technology Eindhoven
— Taking Soundings paper presentation/lecture, 4th Mobile Music Workshop, Waag Society, Amsterdam
2002 – 2006
— University Lecturer, Interaction/Industrial Design, University of Technology Eindhoven
— Collaborative Score Spaces guest lecture, Etonaal Symposium on digital music, Utrecht University NL
— Sound Strata Helen Chadwick Fellowship, British School in Rome/Oxford University UK
— Artist Talk lecture and workshop, Academy of Visual Arts Maastricht, NL
— Score Spaces guest seminar, Media Arts dept, Academy of Media Arts Cologne
— Building as Instrument paper presentation, Jan van Eyck Academy Maastricht
— Score Spaces performative lecture, Jan van Eyck Academy Maastricht
— Meta-Orchestra Maastricht performative lecture, Jan van Eyck Academy Maastricht
— Score Spaces: Intimate and Inhabited Interfaces guest lecture, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
— Score Spaces: from the intimate to the inhabited interface Aalborg University Esbjerg,Denmark
— From intimate to inhabited interfaces artist talk STEIM, Amsterdam
— Instruments and Scores guest lecture, Elisava School of Design, Barcelona