Campus Directory

Division Arts Division

Department/College/Unit Music Department

Title Assitant Professor in Teaching

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Digital Arts and New Media

Web Site

Primary Office Location Music Center
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Mail Stop Music Center

Biography, Education and Training

Yolande Harris is a composer, sound and video artist focusing on the transformative potential of sound and listening in times of environmental change. She creates audio-visual installations, walks and performances, approached through a sonic sensibility. Originally from the UK, Yolande has lived and worked throughout Europe and the US, presenting her projects worldwide in venues ranging from intimate concerts and walks to international museums including, Issue Project Room (New York), Sonic Acts Festival (Amsterdam), Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt), the House of World Cultures (Berlin) and the Exploratorium (San Francisco). She studied with pioneers of experimental music and sound art Lou Harrison, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, David Dunn, Peter Sculthorpe, Louis Andriessen and Michel Waiswisz. Yolande studied music at Edinburgh University and Dartington College of Arts, holds an MPhil in Architecture and Moving Image from Cambridge University, and a PhD in music from Leiden University titled ‘Sound, Environment and Sonic Consciousness’. Awards include Individual Artist Stipends from the Mondriaan Funds (NL), and research fellowships at STEIM (Amsterdam), Netherlands Institute for Media Art (Amsterdam), the Orpheus Research Center in Music (Ghent), the KHM/Academy of Media Arts (Cologne), and the Jan van Eyck Academy (Maastricht). Recent major sound art residencies include the Roden Crater project (Arizona State University), Polyphonic Landscapes (Amsterdam) and Atmospheres of Sound (UCLA). Yolande was Assistant Professor in video and open media at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and taught digital media art at San Jose State University. Yolande is Assistant Teaching Professor in Music and Inaugural Principal Faculty in Creative Technologies at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC).