Yolande Harris


Yolande is a composer and media-artist working with sound, image and space in a technologically extended environment. She proposes a radical notion of the musical score and uses technology in her work as the means through which to understand the electronically extended spaces we inhabit.
email: yolandeh at terra.es

News


29/11/2007
guest teaching at final presentations, Rietveld Academy Design Lab Amsterdam Social Spaces Workshop in collaboration with Nokia

8-10/11/2007
Taking Soundings, a composers investigations into technologies of navigation
paper presentation on sound and navigation at the Mutamorphosis International Conference on art and science in extreme environments, Prague

2/11/2007
Spin
for turning trombone, sound and video. Guest performance for the Sound Souvenirs Symposium at Intro | In Situ Maastricht with trombonist Hilary Jeffery

2-18/11/2007
Navigating by Circles
new video and sound installation presented in the Screen series CCNOA Brussels

3/10/2007
Guest Lecture at the Rietveld Academy Design Lab Amsterdam Social Spaces Workshop in collaboration with Nokia

19-24/11/2007 !! application due 27/9/2007 !!
Score Spaces Workshop I'll be leading an intensive, collaborative, cross-disciplinary workshop on a spatial approach to musical composition. Hosted by Intro | In Situ venue for experimental music and sound art in Maastricht NL. More information and how to apply...

11/8/2007 22:00
Taking Soundings new performance at the Nau Coclea Festival of New Music, focus on music and astronomy, Camallera, Catalunya

30/6/2007 - 22/7/2007
in residence at STEIM Amsterdam, working further on navigations and orientations in sound, including celestial navigation, see project blog

30/6/2007 12:00 - 17:30
Taking Soundings presented in the Luister Salon 2007 - Vrouw en Muziek
BIMHUIS Studio 1, Amsterdam

15/6/2007 21:00
sound presentation of recent navigation work Open DI Night #3 at DNK and Mediamatic , Amsterdam

29/5/2007 - 17/6/2007
in residence at STEIM Amsterdam, working further on navigations and orientations in sound, Taking Soundings, after the Mobile Music Workshop , see the review

26-28/5/2007 11:00 - 18:00
Light Phase more
Screening of video piece at the Jan van Eyck Video Weekend Maastricht

25/5/2007 21:00
26-28/5/2007 11:00 - 18:00

Inside-Out Piano more
new installation version for disklavier (piano), electronics, sensors and video >
at Intro | In Situ , during the Maastricht Kunsttour

6/5/2007 - 8/5/2007
Taking Soundings - Investigating Coastal Navigations and Orientations in Sound
Paper presentation in the 4th International Mobile Music Workshop , STEIM and Waag Society, Amsterdam

23/4/2007 - 27/4/2007
Score Spaces Workshop on Art and Technology, for Masters students of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, NL

22/3/2007 20:45
23/3/2007 20:45

Inside-Out Piano more
new performance for disklavier (piano), electronics, sensors and video >
at the Cement Festival , Maastricht

13/2/2007 - 13/3/2007
research trip to Sydney, Australia
28/2 18:00 Opening lecture Architecture and Cinema course, University of Technology Sydney
5/3 12:00 Invited Speaker Special KCDC research seminar , Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, University of Sydney

9/3/2007 - 30/3/2007
Taking Soundings more
9/3 at 6pm exhibition opening of Sound Installation at SNO, Sydney Australia


2006/2007
Divide by Zero
article by Zafer Aracagok, MMU English Research Institute, Deleuze Studies

28/1/2007
Inside-Out Piano more
new composition for disklavier (piano), electronics, sensors and video > with performances in Sittard, Aachen and Maastricht, January/March 2007
commissioned by > Intro|InSitu and Urban Myths New Media Lab Maastricht NL

8/11/2006 19:00
Taking Soundings more
(a composition emerging from processes of navigation to create coastlines of sound)
preview of new composition and final presentation/performance of work made as artistic fellow at the Klanglabor Academy of Media Arts Cologne / Kunsthochschule fur Medien Koln

22/9/2006 - 28/10/2006
Sketch for a Score for an Inside-Out Instrument
6 graphic scores and sound
2step group exhibition curated by Petra Bungert, UH Galleries St Albans UK

9/9/2006 - 10/9/2006
Maaslab presented the Extended Reading Table and Drum'n Bass Stick installation/demos as part of Urban Myths New Media Lab, Het Parcours, Maastricht

27/6/2006
guest lecture, at e-tonaal symposium on the (un)limited potential of digital music culture, Utrecht University NL

13/6/2006
guest seminar Score Spaces, reactive platform Multimedia and Performance, Academy of Media Arts Cologne / Kunsthochschule fur Medien

26/5/2006
journal publication "Inside-Out Instrument"
in Bodily Instruments and Instrumental Bodies, Contemporary Music Review Vol25/1+2, Routledge.

26/5/2006 - 5/06/2006
Sketch for a Score for an Inside-Out Instrument, graphic score
Lovely Shanghai Music group exhibition curated by Team 404 and John Armleder, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai

20/5/2006 - 21/5/2006
Maaslab open studio, Maastricht, as part of KunstTour 2006

17/5/2006
presentation/performance "...the landscape is now an acoustic chamber..."
Klanglabor Academy of Media Arts Cologne / Kunsthochschule fur Medien

12/5/2006 - 25/06/2006
Sketch for a Score for an Inside-Out Instrument
6 graphic scores and sound
2step group exhibition curated by Petra Bungert, Kunstnerneshus, Oslo

12/4/2006
new performance with Hilary Jeffery trombone at Stichting Intro, Maastricht

1/3 - 30/8/2006
invited Fellow, Academy of Media Arts Cologne / Kunsthochschule fur Medien
to work on new project "...the landscape is now an acoustic chamber..."

21/2/2006
lecture at Academie Beeldende Kunsten, Maastricht

11/2/2006
Divide by Zero
Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul
lecture and performance with Zafer Aracagok
supported by the British Council in Turkey

8/12 - 23/12/2005
Japan research trip on Art, Design and New Technologies
with Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Industrial Design

28/11 - 12/12/2005
Contact
video and sound installation
in Stepping Out group exhibition of research and production
Gallery, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, NL

13/11
reproducing Helix/Spiral by Dan Graham in a forest in the Ardennes

09/11 - 14:00
unsuspecting visitor at the seminar of David Larcher
Academy of Media Arts, Cologne DE
http://www.khm.de

29/9 - 20:30
The Building as Instrument
Paper presentation
piece written for Hearing Places anthology, University of Melbourne
Auditorium, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht
www.janvaneyck.nl

27/9 - 20:30 opening
27-30/9 - 13:00-19:00 (by appointment)

Orbital - Open Studio 219
Video, sensors and sound installation
Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, NL
www.janvaneyck.nl

15/9 - 20:30
Light Phase
Performance for video, voice, sound, sensors
VideoDance 2005 Festival of Movement and the Moving Image
Mylos Theatre, Thessaloniki, Greece
www.filmfestival.gr/videodance/2005

21/9 - 20:30
Divide by Zero
Zafer Aracagok is presenting our joint CD
Ctrl_Alt_Del II Festival, Istanbul
www.project-ctrl-alt-del.com
www.persistencebit.com