Period: January – March

Yann Tie is a field recordist, sound artist, and musician working with long-term listening and site-based sound practices. Her work approaches sound as presence and investigates how ecological, geological, and cultural conditions shape relationships between human and non-human worlds. Listening functions in her practice as both a research method and an ethical position.

She focuses on environmental sound and ambience, incorporating field recording, soundwalks, environmental musical improvisation, sound installation, and sound-led moving image. Across these forms, she emphasizes reduced authorial intervention, allowing sound, material processes, and environmental conditions to structure the work.

Her field practices span glacial landscapes, boreal forests, ritual environments, rainforests, deserts, plateaus, and border regions. These include long-term listening with Evenki reindeer herders in the Greater Khingan Mountains, ritual sound practices in Indonesia and southwest China, and geological listening in Himalayan and Pan-Arctic contexts. Her work engages with acoustic ecology, temporal scales, and non-extractive approaches to field recording.

During her residency at Skaftfell, Yann Tie focuses on attentive listening within Seyðisfjörður and its surrounding landscapes. Rather than imposing a predefined narrative, she seeks to respond to the town’s acoustic ecology—listening to water, weather, animal presence, and human activity, as well as the changing light and atmospheric conditions that shape daily life. Through field recordings, soundwalks, photography, and sound-led moving image, she explores how sound reveals relationships between people, land, and environmental change.