Selected interviews, articles, reviews, and essays. Some items open as PDFs or link to external websites.
2026
Interview with Yann Novak, Headphone Commute
Interview
Honoring the Assignment with Yann Novak, Foxy Digitalis
Interview
2024
Songs of Our Lives #41: Yann Novak, Foxy Digitalis
Podcast
2023
Exploring New Ground With Yann Novak, Foxy Digitalis
Interview
Yann Novak talks Sound, 15 Questions
Interview
2021
Volume 053: Yann Novak, The Voice of Energy
Interview
2020
Yann Novak’s Stillness at The Broad, The Broad
Interview
2019
Concrete Shelves: Yann Novak, Concrete Shelves
Interview
Unbound Time, by Suzy Halajian
Essay
Stillness at the Broad, by Ed Patuto
Essay
2018
Yann Novak, ambiental explorations of sound and light, CLOT Magazine
Interview
Crucial Listening #18: Yann Novak, Attn: Magazine
Interview
2017
How a Song About Baking Bread Inspired an Experimental Record Label, LA Weekly
Article
2016
In the studio with Yann Novak, Headphone Commute
Interview
Present Soundings: Yann Novak, Present Soundings
Interview
ATTN:Magazine: Yann Novak, ATTN: Magazine
Interview
Exploring Blackness in Antiquity Through Movement and Sound, The Iris
Interview
2015
First Night At The Broad: Spectacular, Brilliant Programming, Cultural Weekly
Article
A sneak peek at the Broad museum draws an enthusiastic crowd, Los Angeles Times
Article
A Conspicuous Twist of the Right Wrist: Gestures of Queerness in Contemporary Intermedia Art, by Erin Silver
Essay
Homo Gestalt: Yann Novak, Homo Gestalt
Interview
2014
Dialogue 02: Yann Novak, Sonic Field
Interview
Yann Novak “Doppler.Shift” at Commonwealth and Council, Notes on Looking
Review
2013
Live: Martin A. Smith – NOISE and whispers, ATTN:Magazine
Review
NOISE And Whispers At GV Art Gallery, Fluid Radio
Review
A Long Way From Home – A Journey Into Human Suffering, Fluid Radio
Article
Undefined, Fluid Radio
Interview
2012
Re-location: Sound Art E Approceao Ecosistenico Agla Ambienti Di Fuizione, Blow-Up Magazine
Interview
2011
3 Surfaces, by Sinéad Finnerty-Pyne
Essay
Forward Festival: Yann Novak, Forward Festival Blog
Interview
Resonates Well with Others: Recent Sound Art Collaborations, Drift Magazine
Article
2010
On Site: Sillness.Subtropical, The Wire Magazine
Review
Sonic Journeys at SoundFjord, The London Word
Review
2009
Empty Spaces: Yann Novak at Lawrimore Project, Translinguistic Other
Review
Yann Novak’s ‘Relocation’: All Kinds of Movings On, The Stranger
Review
Striation, Erosion, Deformation, Recollection: The Erased Field Recordings of Yann Novak, by Christopher DeLaurenti
Essay
2008
15 Questions to Yann Novak, Tokafi
Interview
2007
Seattle Sound Artist Catches Vibes of the Old North End, Seven Days
Article
Loop: Yann Novak, Loop
Interview
2006
Hear Here: The Invisible District of Brooklyn and Seattle, The Stranger
Article