Yasmin Rai is a composer and synthesist whose electronic productions move between solo performance, multi-channel installation, and collaborative commission.
She encodes field recordings, data, and biological signal compositional material: brainwaves and the sound of clay, electrical activity in the Amazon Rainforest, cave systems in the French Pyrennées, and transmissions captured at the Orgov Radio-Optical Telescope where she developed a sample pack using the resonance of the world’s largest structure of its kind.
Described as producing “atonal glitterings” (Two Coats of Paint), her work has taken the form of multi-channel noise sets at the Babajanyan Concert Hall in Armenia, live performance with TS Eliot Award-winning poet Bhanu Kapil at the Serpentine Gallery for ‘Queer Earth and Liquid Matters’ Festival (for Back to Earth) and an international radio broadcast collaboration with experimental artist Fahmi Mursyid, developed through a British Council Commissioning programme between the UK and Indonesia. She has scored for dance theatre, documentary film and worked with Brazil’s LABVERDE where she was a resident sound artist in the Amazon Rainforest for the ‘Ecologias Especulativas’ programme.
Residencies with Kode9 and Jez Riley French have deepened a practice rooted in listening and guide her current work with the European Space Agency where she is engaged in ArtEO’s “Earth Stories” programme. Upcoming records are supported by DJ Mag x Help Musicians (Electronic Music Award winner, 2026) and Sound and Music (Seed Award winner, 2025).