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Harry Yeff (Reeps100) is a Grammy Award-winning new media artist and director whose work has amassed over 100 million views globally. Born in London, Yeff is internationally recognized for pioneering the intersection of voice, AI, and cutting-edge performance. For over 15 years, he has explored the outer limits of vocal expression, using technology to visualize the voice and redefine the possibilities of human and machine collaboration in art.

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2017

WE SPEAK MUSIC

VOICE EVOLUTION DOCUMENTARY

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Harry Yeff

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We Speak Music – the documentary series – is a groundbreaking, artistic collaboration between the international world-class beatboxer and visual artist – Harry Yeff (aka Reeps One) and the world-renowned, technological innovator – Nokia Bell Labs. This collaboration is an investigative journey of human communication offering insights into the voice from a scientific, cultural, technological and artistic perspective while using beatboxing as the ultimate exploration of its potential. The series raises many interesting questions about the importance we place on the human voice, its unstudied capabilities beyond speaking and the role it could play in an increasingly global society regarding interacting with machines. These questions are particularly prescient at this moment given the rise of voice-controlled technology.

Guided by the infectious curiosity of British artist Harry Yeff (aka Reeps One), a Nokia Bell Labs artist-in-residence, the series investigates how the beatboxing subculture is creating a nonverbal form of expression between global, online communities. These members use their ability to communicate ideas and feelings across linguistic boundaries, using just the human voice. Reeps One, inspired by his journey and the pioneering work of Nokia Bell Labs across many disciplines, created a spectacle performance using a sophisticated, deep learning Artificial Intelligence (AI) system. The result is amazing – a novel collaboration between the human voice and a technology that will soon be ubiquitous. The documentary culminates in a creative duet between Reeps One and his “AI digital twin” showing the true creative potential when we bring together the best of humanity with the best of technology. This performance takes the audience to a new hyper-functional and creative watershed, and more importantly, highlights how these collaborations have the potential to create profoundly emotional experiences.

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    2019 - Present

    CREATING AN A.I SECOND SELF

    Second Self is an arts and science collaboration between Reeps One, Dada Bots and the E.A.T. program at Bell Labs created in 2018. The collaboration is a live performance piece designed to integrate machine learning and generative audio as a practical artistic tool and to raise awareness about machine learning beyond the academic, technological and engineering demographics via the medium of film. The film has been showcased at United Nations, Davos, Google Exec, Ars Electronica and more.

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    2023

    LEIPZIG INTERNATIONAL BALLET

    FUSION is a story of balance between the archetypes of human, machine, and nature. Much like a chess grandmaster using any method possible to improve play, composer Harry Yeff (REEPS100) employs every available approach to push his voice beyond what we believe to be possible. Yeff possesses one of the most unique and varied vocal ranges on Earth, and through his collaboration with A.I, he has surpassed even his own limitations.

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    Exhibition

    VOICE GEMS : 1000 YEAR ARCHIVE W1 EXHIBIT

    VOICE GEMS: 1000 YEAR ARCHIVE

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    2022 - Present

    VOICE GEMS

    The VOICE GEMS project is a vibrant, unprecedented meditation highlighting the most remarkable, influential, and critically endangered voices on earth to generate digital gemstones and physical sculptures. The works exist as NFT's, print, 3-D print, digital video, large scale projection and cast sculpture.

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    2019

    SEE SOUND

    'See Sound' is a generative artwork experience that creates sound sculptures based on the human voice. Participants engage with the artwork via a microphone and hardware interface. They can trigger different visual constructions within the music visualizer, based on vocal experimentation. Each construction is a sculpture unique to its creator.

  • Work

    2017

    WE SPEAK MUSIC

    We Speak Music – the documentary series – is a groundbreaking, artistic collaboration between the international world-class beatboxer and visual artist – Harry Yeff (aka Reeps One) and the world-renowned, technological innovator – Nokia Bell Labs. This collaboration is an investigative journey of human communication offering insights into the voice from a scientific, cultural, technological and artistic perspective while using beatboxing as the ultimate exploration of its potential.

  • Work

    2017

    POLYPHONIC PLAYGROUND

    In collaboration with Fashion Space Gallery and Studio PSK, Yeff created Polyphonic Playground—an interactive sound installation blending childhood play with musical innovation. Swings, slides, and climbing frames were reimagined with electric paint and trigger pads, transforming the structure into a large-scale instrument. By removing traditional tools, Yeff challenges musicians to explore sound through movement, curiosity, and play.

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    2017

    DOES NOT EXIST VR

    'Does Not Exist' won the award for Best Sound Design Experience at the 2017 Raindance Film Festival.

    In collaboration with media innovation giants The Mill and Aurelia Sounds, I scored and performed in does Does Not Exist, the worlds first Virtual Reality music video made with gyroscopic 3D sound. The two and a half minute video shifts dynamically between acoustic experiences and atmospheres, combining abstract environments with surrealist elements and haunting, vocal composition. I am portrayed as an unearthly figure jumping freely between a playground of worlds, the experience transmits with physical and sonic accuracy an unworldly journey.

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    2020

    DAVOS 2020: VOICES OF LIGHT

    Join vocal artist Harry Yeff, also known as Reeps100, and members of the London Contemporary Voices Choir on an immersive sonic and visual journey that explores the capacity of the human voice as a metaphor for its boundless possibilities for a deeper connection with others.

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    2018

    VOCAL VIBRATION IN WATER

    A desire to visualise vocal music inspired me to experiment with audio-visual work and physical phenomena as early as 2012. Cymatics — the use of vibration as a medium to move, organise and control matter — has since constituted a prominent focus in my work.

    I continue to reinterpret cymatics as a means for invention, developing custom-designed, large-scale visualisers for performance. The Cymatics photography series and live Cymatics performances received an ARS PRIX nomination in 2016.

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    2018

    CYMATICS LIVE PERFORMANCE

    A desire to visualise vocal music inspired me to experiment with audio-visual work and physical phenomena as early as 2012. Cymatics — the use of vibration as a medium to move, organise and control matter — has since constituted a prominent focus in my work.

    I continue to reinterpret cymatics as a means for invention, developing custom designed, large-scale visualisers for performance. The Cymatics photography series and live Cymatics performances received an ARS PRIX nomination in 2016.

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    2019

    ORGANIC ELECTRONIC VIBRATION STRUCTURE

    A desire to visualise vocal music inspired me to experiment with audio-visual work and physical phenomena as early as 2012. Cymatics — the use of vibration as a medium to move, organise and control matter — has since constituted a prominent focus in my work.

    I continue to reinterpret cymatics as a means for invention, developing custom designed, large-scale visualisers for performance. The Cymatics photography series and live Cymatics performances received an ARS PRIX nomination in 2016.

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    2014

    MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE THE ECONOMIST INTERVIEW

    A champion for a new generation of young musicians, Harry Yeff is pushing the human voice to new musical, scientific and artistic heights.

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    2014

    Attention. Deficit. Order.

    Attention. Defecit. Order. was my first major solo exhibition in London. With the exhibition, I explored the often-overlooked benefits of mental processes associated with Attention Deficit Disorder, including high functionality and hyperfocus. I wanted to challenge negative notions of hyperactivity and celebrate complexity through multi-media sensory installations demonstrating high levels of complexity, precision and cognitive flow. I wanted to subvert the idea of chaos normally associated with ADD.

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    2016

    YEFF & HOPPER

    As part of the exhibition Attention. Deficit. Order., artists Yeff and Ben Hopper presented The Circle of Naked—a participatory body painting performance exploring empowerment through vulnerability and self-expression. Over fifty participants, including women, men, and children, became living canvases, engaging in a collective act of transformation. The physicality of the paint sparked a range of emotional responses, from shyness to bold embodiment, blurring the lines between observer and performer.

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    2016

    HARVARD RESIDENCY & ART TECH PSYCHE LECTURE

    Invited by Arts @ 29 and the Linguistics Department, Yeff joined Harvard University as a guest lecturer and artist-in-residence. He began by lecturing on experimental vocalism in phonetics, drawing on his background as a beatboxer to explore psychoacoustics and voice innovation.

  • Work

    2025 - Present

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