Loula Yorke is an award-winning composer, improviser and live performer working primarily with a modular synthesiser.

Yorke's dynamic and ever-fluid practice draws a line between music, activism and live art, incorporating participatory pieces, such as 2021's Atari Punk Girls, critically acclaimed recorded works, such as 2022's Florescence, and live modular synthesis performances that incorporate a kaleidoscope of melodic sequences, noise, and snatches of processed voice.

In January 2024, Yorke will be releasing Volta, an album that stands on the solid foundations of her previous releases –  the errant experimental frequencies of ysmysmysm, the scratchy techno punk of LDOLS, the gravitational mass of Florescence – but nonetheless marks a complete departure for her in process. Here Yorke steps into a zone of self-imposed order, setting aside the unpredictability of live improvisation. Within the luminous sonic tessellations of Volta, synth lines are programmed rather than randomly generated, refined through hours of listening, thinking and tweaking at her modular sequencer … until a wormhole opens and we tumble in. Revolving and rotating, swelling and contracting, waxing and waning. The loop is the symbol of infinity, a connection between human pattern-making and cosmic cycles unknown. And just as a tilt in Earth’s axis gives us the seasons, the smallest shift in a sequence can expand one sound into a musical universe.