Ear to the Earth 2010: Yolande Harris and Bernie Krause

As part of Ear to the Earth 2010: Water and the World, Yolande Harris will perform in a program with legendary sound artist Bernie Krause at the Greenwich House Music School, 26 Barrow Street, 8pm.

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Harris' Pink Noise and Video Organ

Sailing, swimming and fishing highlight embodied and technological ways of knowing and relating to water environments, where sound forms a fundamental part of our experience. In her audio-visual work Yolande Harris addresses this otherwise alien environment, where water, wind and weather connect through the direct experience of undulating surface, breathing, equipment and navigation. Fishing for Sound creates a sea of spatial connections between phenomena underwater, in the mind, and from outer-space, weaving sounds from marine environments, psychological treatment and sonified navigation satellites. Common to each of these is a mass of background noise - of environment, memory and information - where listening is like fishing for sounds.

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Krause's Spectral map of animal sounds

Every stream, ocean, lake, beach, marsh, fen, and pool on earth has its own resonance and special geophonic voice, each soundscape adding another layer to the acoustic structures that engage us as music. Krause addresses the question of how animals (and water animals) taught us to dance and sing, drawing from his book, The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World’s Wild Places, due for publication by Little Brown (Hachette) in 2011. Find out how the organizational acoustic forms that have inspired human music can be found in the biophonies of rainforests, arctic regions, oceans, lakes, and riparian habitats worldwide.

Yolande Harris
Amsterdam-based composer/sound artist Yolande Harris works with sound and image in environment and architectural space. She has presented her work internationally, at MACBA, Schirn Kunsthalle, ISEA, Sonic Acts, and Transmediale, and she has received fellowships at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Jan van Eyck Academy, and Netherlands Media Art Institute.

Bernie Krause
Since 1968, Bernie Krause has traveled the world, recording and archiving the sounds of creatures and environments large and small. He has produced 55 CDs and creates interactive environmental sound sculptures for public spaces worldwide. He is currently engaged in writing a book titled The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World’s Wild Places. Krause is also a pioneering performer on synthesizer, who introduced Beatle George Harrison to the instrument in 1968, and has many credits in popular music and film.