Sound as presence
Listening as a way of being with Earth
Yann Tie is a field recordist, sound artist, musician and phorograper whose practice is grounded in long-term listening, site-based recording, and sustained engagement with natural environments. Her work focuses on sound as a form of spatial presence and on the relationships that emerge through specific ecological, geological, and cultural conditions. Listening functions in her practice as both a method and a positional stance for exploring modes of coexistence between human and non-human worlds.
Originally working in composition and piano, her early practice developed through intuitive approaches to melody, breath, and temporal flow. Over time, her focus shifted toward environmental sound, incorporating soundwalks, field recording, environmental improvisation, sound installation, and sound-led moving image. Through these approaches, she investigates how sound unfolds across different material processes and temporal scales.
Her work emphasizes reduced authorial intervention, allowing sound, vibration, space, and environmental processes to establish relations on their own terms. In film and photography, she adopts a restrained, documentary-oriented approach to indigenous oral histories, practices, and relationships with land, foregrounding ethical attention in both listening and representation. Her field-based practice spans rainforests, deserts, plateaus, islands, forests, and polar environments, addressing ecological change, geological processes, and interactions between human and more-than-human life.
Yann Tie（鐵陽） 是一位田野录音者、声音艺术家, 音乐家和摄影师。她的实践以长期聆听、现场录音和与自然环境的共处为核心，关注声音作为空间临在的存在状态，以及其在特定生态、地质与文化条件中生成关系的方式。她将聆听视为一种方法和立场，用以探索人与非人世界之间的共存结构。
她早期从事作曲与钢琴创作，作品基于对旋律、呼吸与时间流动的直觉感知。随着实践的发展，她逐渐将重心转向自然环境中的声音工作，通过 soundwalk、田野录音、环境即兴、声音装置及声音主导的影像实践，研究声音如何在不同时间尺度与物质条件中显现。
在其作品中，她注重降低个人主观干预，让声音、振动、空间与环境过程自行建立关系。在影像与摄影实践中，她以记录性的方式呈现原住民的口述史、行为与其与自然的关系，强调观看与聆听中的伦理克制。她的实践横跨雨林、沙漠、高原、岛屿、森林与极地环境，关注生态变化、地质过程及人类与非人生命的相互作用。