Yasmin Rai is an artist and composer working with spatial sound, data, and installation.

Through the sonification of invisible and unheard phenomena, her work renders hidden systems perceptible. From the incomprehensibly vast; asteroids, satellite imagery, and observatories across the planet, to the infinitesimally small; sap moving through trees, electromagnetic frequencies in the Earth, and subatomic particles, these forces are brought to life through code, data systems, and electronic processing.

Working across spatial sound and installation, she explores embodied sonics as a tool for empathy. Her practice engages Earth and space data to create ‘felt’ worlds, where sound is experienced as physical materiality within the body. As sound continuously operates through us, interference and frequency become critical tools for environmental art, offering ways to confront the slow violence of a world at a crossroads of regeneration, resistance, or imminent collapse.

Her work materialises data as embodied sonic experience, enabling deeper engagement with environmental, political, and scientific systems.

She is the recipient of Help Musicians Electronic Music Award in collaboration with DJ Mag (2026) and Sound & Music’s Seed Composer Award (2025) and the . She has been commissioned by the British Council and has presented performance and compositional work at Serpentine Galleries, the Institute of Contemporary Art, and more.








Selected Works & Commissions

Beta  Reflections (2026)
Sonorous,  St. Augustine’s Tower , London
Curated by TAE
Interim Waktu (2026)
British Council x Sound and Music: International New Music Commissioning Programme (UK / Indonesia / Colombia / Brazil)
Labverde: Speculative Ecologies (2025)
Amazon Rainforest, Brazil  International residency focused on acoustic ecology, environmental listening, and speculative ecological methodologies, working alongside artists, scientists, and researchers.
Observations
(2025)
Babajanyan Concert Hall, Armenian State Philharmonia, Yerevan 
SPATTER (2025)
Goldsmiths, University of London  
Research-led sound project developed in collaboration with a low-vision criminology student, exploring image sonification, accessibility, and forensic analysis. 
Sonic Sculptures 3: Playground of Sound (2024)
Primary, Nottingham
Transmit No. 5 (2024)
Cairngorms, Scotland 
Place-based acoustic ecology 
INCUBATION: a space for monsters (2023)
Burley Fisher Literary Festival, London
Horse Hospital, London
HUMANIMAL: Queer Earth & Liquid Matters (2022)
Serpentine Gallery x Stone Nest, London 
Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist. 
Shahzia Sikander: Unbound Symposium (2022)
Jesus College, Cambridge  

Selected Awards

Electronic Music Award 2026 - Help Musicians x DJ Mag 
Seed Award for Composers 2025 - Sound and Music 
New Music Commissioning Programme 2025 - British Council x Sound and Music 
Sound Arts Resident 2024 - ICA Young Creatives
Scholarship Recipient 2024 - Arvon Hybrid Writing Residential Programme