Bora Yoon
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Bora Yoon |
| Born | May 28, 1980 |
| Genres | Contemporary, Electronic, Choral, Electroacoustic, Ambient, Experimental, Spatial Acoustic |
| Occupation(s) | composer/performer vocalist multi-instrumentalist sound artist |
| Labels | INNOVA Recordings Swirl Records Journal of Popular Noise |
| Website | www |
| Notable instruments | |
| mobile phones, voice, Tibetan singing bowl, water, synths, phasing metronomes, guitar, field recordings, repurposed chimes, kitchenware, sonic sundries / found objects, electronics | |
Bora Yoon (born 1980) is a Korean-American experimental electroacoustic composer/performer, featured on the front-page of the Wall Street Journal. , for her use of unconventional instruments and musical technology in her music. An interdisciplinary sound artist, vocalist and TED2014 Fellow, she gathers and uses instruments and timbres from various centuries and cultures, to create immersive audiovisual experiences, with architecture, and acoustics.
Yoon was born in Chicago, Illinois. She completed her undergraduate studies at Ithaca College’s Conservatory of Music and Writing School, and is currently a doctoral candidate in Music Composition at Princeton University.
Yoon uses unconventional sound sources (everyday found objects, chamber instruments and digital devices) to generate music, and illuminate the invisibility of environment, sound, space, and architectural acoustics and psychoacoustics—to create a storytelling through sound.
In her work, she has used the human voice, violin/viola, water, ancient Tibetan singing bowls, cell phones, music boxes, glockenspiel, guitar, walkie talkies, metronomes, shortwave radios, kitchenware, found sounds, and electronics.
As a performer, Yoon has toured her experimental soundwork internationally at venues including the Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Singapore Arts Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, the KBS/Nam June Paik Museum in Seoul, the Festival of World Cultures (Poland), and various galleries, universities, and performing arts centers around the globe. She composes music/sound for film, theater, and dance, including an adaptation of Haruki Murakami's Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
Yoon's wide-ranging musical skills have yielded a diverse collection of collaborators across many genres and disciplines which include:
As a composer, notable spatial-acoustic works with unusual architecture include stereophonic sound mural “Doppler Dreams” for seven sopranos on bicycles in Brooklyn’s 55,000 sq ft (5,100 m2), empty McCarren Pool for the site-specific dance piece Agora II, and created and performed the multi-speaker live sound score for the aerial dance piece Rapture, reverberated off the dynamic curves of Frank Gehry’s Fisher Center (Bard College) as part of a collaboration with award-winning choreographer Noémie Lafrance.
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