Vicente Yáñez

Vicente Yáñez is a Chilean artist based in Berlin. His body of work comprises music for contemporary dance, film and string orchestra to sound installations, 3D virtual animated environments and Ambisonics. As a musician, he has produced/mixed/performed with renowned Chilean independent musicians and dancers over the last ten years, performing in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Spain and Germany. He graduated from conservatory (Universidad de Chile) and currently pursues a Master in Arts (Sound Studies) at Universität der Künste Berlin. 

Recent projects are focused on spatial sound and virtual realities. In pursuit of interactions with field recordings, ambisonics and neural models, he attempts to summon spaces that leave traces for individual/collective narratives to emerge.
His interest in immersive media stems from questions posed around materiality, subjectivities and attentive listening. 

Some of his recent work: [2025] Generative ambisonics installation for Altrememorie Residency (LeSerre Udine, IT) / PiNA (Koper, SI);[2024] Fulldome piece for Zeiss GroßPlanetarium (Berlin, DE) and Festival Sous dôme(Paris, FR); 4DSound piece for Monom (Berlin, DE), Ambisonics installation for UdK Rundgang 24’ (Berlin, DE). 

As a producer/musician, he co-produced I.O.’s awarded Altar and Xatarra’s debut Cuadros. Between 2015 and 2020 he was resident composer for Colectivo La Vitrina, and worked as assistant teacher and musician for the Dance department at Universidad de Chile, teaching and researching on sound and performative arts/film.

His debut E.P. ‘YZEN’ was released in August 2025 under the Chilean label 11:11 (@sello11_11).