As part of The Sonic Unconscious, ISSUE presents two installations by Yolande Harris.
Pink Noise (The Pink Noise of Pleasure Yachts in Turquoise Sea) uses sound recorded underwater at a National Marine Reserve in midsummer. A surprising range of sounds - loud thumps, grinds and tones from boat engines, anchors and depth sounders - are juxtaposed with video of colorful light reflecting on the sea from the same location. Headphones are suspended from the ceiling directly above the video projection on the floor, physically emphasizing the technological mediation required to make audible the inaudible underwater sounds.
In Tropical Storm, sound and video recordings of a tropical storm evoke the multisensory experience of being immersed in a torrential downpour in a rainforest. Tropical Storm presents the intensity of noise and energy through minimal editing, allowing the exact synchronisation of sound and image to work up an affective space of palpable intensity that can be both overwhelming and meditative.
Yolande Harris (UK) uses her performances, installations and instruments to investigate how we use sound to relate to our surroundings, both architectural and ecological. Her current research/practice considers the musical potential of sound worlds outside the human hearing range, through underwater bioacoustics and the sonification of data.
