Loula Yorke is an award-winning composer, sound artist and modular synthesist based in the UK.
“Practice made perfect” The Wire
“At the top of her game” Electronic Sound
“Utterly gorgeous” Tom Ravenscroft
“Dazzingly good” Moonbuilding
Loula plays live music with her custom-built wide-frequency analogue modular synthesiser, creating deep trance-inducing sounds at the intersection between rave, minimalism and drone. Her sets explore movement, minimalism and psychoacoustics; the way systems loop and feed back, how melodies stretch like waking limbs, arpeggios ripple and fold, while circuits glint and return, changed.
Loula has performed widely, weaving her synthetic patterns into captivating sound worlds in churches, warehouses and arts centres such as Café Oto in London, Boundaries Festival in Sunderland and Tabakalera in San Sebastián. Loula has released music on labels such as Truxalis, DiN, quiet details and Castles in Space; albums which have made AOTY lists in Electronic Sound and Moonbuilding two years running, and been featured in sonic arts magazines such as The Wire, The Quietus, Zen Sounds, First Floor and more.
Latest releases: Hydrology (DiN94) | Time is a Succession of Such Shapes (TRX027)
Live in 2026: Dyski Modular Weekend, Cornwall, 13-25 March | Acid Horse, Wiltshire, 22-24 May | Deer Shed, Yorkshire, 24-26 July
Loula is an Oram Award winner, and has had work funded by Arts Council England, Sound Generator and Help Musicians.
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Read Loula’s In The Studio feature with Headphone Commute
Watch Loula’s live Q&A with Mylar Melodies
contact: loulayorke [at] gmail [dot] com
Loula Yorke 