Sound installation made in 2 sessions with a group of 8-11 year old children at the CYDS youth club in Saxmundham.

Exhibited at 'Animal Vegetable, Mineral' at Art Station, Saxmundham, 2 Dec 2022 - 29 Jan 2023.

Curated by Annabel Dover and Karen Densham.

ABOUT:
"Animal, Vegetable, Mineral is a community exhibition, showing work and objects from artists working both locally and further afield, as well as pieces produced during recent workshops with local groups in Saxmundham.

"Curated by artists Annabel Dover and Karen Densham, the show is inspired by the 1952 game show Animal, Vegetable, Mineral where a panel of experts were asked to describe and classify an artefact of unknown origin. These artefacts were sometimes fake, sometimes modern and sometimes with an unknown origin."

BOK BOK! (Animal, Vegetable, Mineral)

‘It’s been decided that if you lay down no-one will die’ is saturated with bittersweet tension, created through skilful repetition, mutation & extension of a single tumbling arpeggio, Yorke’s chosen voicings alternating between hard and soft, light and dark, under and over.  

She says of the track: “It’s about overwhelm, the times when I’m consciously slowing down, trying to hold space, yet everything is still rushing in." 

The title is a twist on some lines from a piece written by mythopoet, Robert Bly:

“When someone knocks on the door, think that he’s about
To give you something large: tell you you're forgiven,
Or that it's not necessary to work all the time, or that it's
Been decided that if you lie down no one will die.”

Loula Yorke - It's been decided that if you lay down no-one will die

My track 'It's been decided that if you lay down, no-one will die'  was chosen by Mary Anne Hobbs' to Hit Reset with during Volta release week!

Mary Anne Hobbs 'Hit Reset' – It's been decided that if you lay down no-one will die by Loula Yorke

Bitloader (aka Nina Richards and Zoe Blade) performing live at Sonitus Synthesiser Symposium, 17 Feb 2018.

Sonitus#01 - Bitloader

This week I embarked on a sonic adventure at a bronze foundry in deepest rural Suffolk. For my first project I've concentrated on exploring the quiet noises inside the various buildings – chairs rolling, footsteps, typing, the gas bottle dripping(?) at the back of the fridge – rather than foregrounding the big hitters (grinding, hammering, metal finishing) ... which instead provide some ambient noise in the background. The track roughly follows me arriving, having an idea, drinking some tea, discovering a haunted fridge, saying "weird", walking around site a bit and finishes with the piece of music I am working on at the moment, which you can first hear playing through my headphones in the room (all very meta, break down that fourth wall y'all). Anyway a very long explanation for something that lasts a mere 3 minutes but, hey, enjoy! Loula <3

Day 1 At Butley Mills: The Haunted Fridge and Other Exciting Opportunities

After a week-long hiatus (heatwave, first week of the school holidays, yadda yadda) I've been back at the foundry. My practice at the moment is comprised of 3 elements --- field recordings, modular synthesisers, and spoken word performance (my voice, my stories). This piece  showcases the second of these: what I'm doing within modular at the moment. I like to keep things very stripped back in terms of instruments (this piece uses a single instrument which only has 2 voices), and my work is drenched in the 1960s minimalist classical tradition of riffing on a single sequence of notes or within a single key and seeing how deep you can go. Part of the New Lou Revolution has been finally letting go of a DAW that keeps me to time ... editing in Adobe Audition has set me freeeeeeeee from a tempo'd grid and I'm never going back. YAS KWEENS.

Switched On Butley: Fugue Against the Machine

this bangs ok. 

Inspired by Paul Birken – Hang 202 (@tonewrecker) released in 1996 

[Neutron + Waverider wave & subwave all sequenced by xoxbox + a tr09 thru a MuffPi pedal]

Moonface

myself on remix duties for "folk band with teeth" Fishclaw

Fishclaw – Mole County (Loula Yorke's YSM Remix)

track 4 from my new mini album :: ysmysmsym :: up now on junted.bandcamp.com/album/ysmysmysm

[image not my own]

CREEK – track 4 from :: ysmysmysm ::

Debut physical release! Rum Records tape label! It's gonna be a cassette! 6 x ethereal bangers! All single takes recorded live on a Tascam MSR16! Beautiful tape saturation! Lovely bass! Modular synths! 909 drums through pedals pedals pedals! Yes! Happy! Thanking you! Due to drop in Autumn 2019!
LDOLS stands for "last day of little school". This session was recorded on my eldest's last day of primary school, which was also the hottest day in recorded history; it was intense and emotional. i feel like i grew some new wings that day, so in a way it was my last day of little school, too

'LDOLS' cassette release – preview

Study 11 from 'Crowd Control Vol 1' up now for pre-order on bandcamp.
https://loulayorke.bandcamp.com/album/crowd-control-vol-1

Crowd Control Vol 1 is a live sound performance examining themes of privacy and protest in the age of surveillance capitalism, along with a selection of preparatory studies for the piece.

Our digital communications and social posts feel private but are in fact mined for information and predictive behavioural data by third parties from supermarkets to state agencies. Similarly, crowds feel like a safe environment in which to find solidarity and take action but are in fact intensely surveilled, with individual people identified and criminalised later on the basis of social media posts and video footage.

Crowd Control Vol 1

Crowd Control Vol 1 Study 11

SYNTH MUM | Sound Generator 2022 | Oram Award Winner 2020 | Half of @tr33n808 || new music out on Truxalis. Upcoming shows: 8 September 2023 Norwich Arts Centre | 16 September 2023 Tin Arts Coventry | 20 September 2023 Attack Release, Glasgow | 21 September 2023 Wavetable, Edinburgh | 1-3 December 2023 Derry/Belfast/Dublin 🖤

contact: loulayorke@gmail.com

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