Yolande Harris is a composer and media-artist working with sound, image and space in a technologically extended environment. She proposes a radical notion of the score in her ongoing Score Spaces research project and uses technology in her work as the means through which to understand the electronically extended spaces we inhabit.

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. In the works entitled Score Spaces Yolande has developed numerous audio-visual performances and installations, written theoretical texts such as Inside-Out Instrument, and led workshops for composers, sound artists, architects and designers on this spatial approach to composition, in particular the European Meta-Orchestra. Her most recent work, Taking Soundings, explores navigation and orientation techniques in the age of satellite and mobile technologies, particularly questioning our apparently changing relation to land and sea environments.

For information on Yolanda’s upcoming workshop on Score Spaces, click here.