Understanding the relations between sound, image and space through technologies of communication and navigation, has been the central focus of Yolande's work over the last ten years. She explores the intermediary role of the score, both as practical and conceptual tool, and as an open imaginary situation for communication. Her Score Spaces project employs a spatial approach to composition and has resulted in numerous audio-visual performances and installations, including the Meta-Orchestra, theoretical texts, such as Inside Out Instrument, and workshops for composers, sound artists, architects and designers. Her most recent works, Taking Soundings and Sun Run Sun, employ intuitive and scientific modes of knowing and join ancient and contemporary navigation and orientation techniques from sextants to GPS, to explore our apparently changing relation to land and sea environments in the age of satellite and mobile technologies.
Yolande has a degree in music from Dartington College of Arts and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge in architecture and the moving image. She has been resident researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, artistic fellow at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and artist in residence at STEIM and the Netherlands Institute for Media Arts in Amsterdam. She has taught interaction design at the Technical University of Eindhoven, is guest lecturer at the Rietveld Academy Design Lab, and lectures on her work internationally. Her writings have been published in the Contemporary Music Review and Journal of Organised Sound.
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