Yann Tie is a sound artist and musician who works with long-term listening and spatial sounds. Her work approaches sound as presence and investigates how ecological, geological and cultural conditions shape the relationship between human and non-human worlds. Yann uses listening as both a research method and an ethical stance in her work.

She focuses on ambient sound and atmosphere, which includes field recordings, soundwalks, sound improvisation with the environment, sound installations, and sound-driven animations. Yann emphasizes minimal authorial intervention, allowing sound, material processes, and environmental conditions to shape the work at each time.

Her field trips include recording in glacial landscapes, northern snowfields, ritual environments, rainforests, deserts and borderlands. For example, she spent long periods with Evenki reindeer herders in the Greater Khingan Mountains, recorded ritual sounds in Indonesia and southwest China, and geological sounds in the Himalayas and the Arctic.

In her Skaftfell guest studio, Yann Tie focuses on active listening to Seyðisfjörður and the surrounding landscape. Rather than defining the narrative in advance, she experiments with responding to the sounds of the town, listening to water, weather, wildlife, human behavior, as well as the changing daylight and conditions that shape daily life. Through site-specific recordings, soundwalks, photography, and sound-controlled animation, she explores how sound reveals connections between people, place, and environmental change.